WHY COP30 MATTERS TO ME, MY COMMUNITY AND TANZANIA FUTURE
Growing up in Tanzania, I did not learn about climate change from textbooks I learned it from the stories, struggles, and daily experiences of my community. I learned it from farmers who watched the rain patterns shift without warning, from families displaced by floods in Dar es Salaam, Morogoro and Mkuranga, drought in Central Tanzania, rise in temperature, and the loss of biodiversity from the plastic-filled beaches I cleaned with fellow volunteers. These experiences shaped my commitment to...