Africa’s Girl Power
Education is far from a given for poor, rural Africans. But a group called CAMFED (campaign for female education) is
Antonio Fonseca joined Imazon as a trainee in 2008. In 2010 he graduated in environmental engineering and was hired as an assistant researcher to work at Imazon’s deforestation monitoring program. In this program, I have quickly gained remote sensing end Geographic Information System (GIS) skills that led me to assume a technical coordinator of Deforestation Alert System (SAD). As current attributions, I am responsible to run SAD every month, coordinate the team and prepare the reports that are evaluated by the program supervisors. I have also gained experience in communicating SAD results to the general media in Brazil. In 2016, I will be seeking for graduate program in US Universities to strength my academic skills and expect to return to work in the Amazon region in the field of forest monitoring.
Education is far from a given for poor, rural Africans. But a group called CAMFED (campaign for female education) is
The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment is catalyzing impact investment and entrepreneurship to benefit people and the planet. It
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Reprieve uncovers and challenges human rights abuses in courts of law around the world and fights for people on death
Girls Not Brides is a global network of more than 1,600 civil society organizations committed to ending child marriage and
Learn how Indigenous social innovators and their communities are advancing climate action.
