Uganda has mostly a tropical climate characterized by stable rainfall patterns. However, the effects of climate change have turned the seasons around with the country experiencing shorter or longer rains and harsher droughts and increasingly becoming severe, affecting the lives of the country’s citizens.
Kasese District in Western Uganda where GEDA operates has been hit hard by several climatic change catastrophes. Repetitive Hydrological floods, mudslides, long periods of drought among others. The recent being the Kasika mudslide that saw about 16 lives lost and property worth millions of shillings lost.
The major causes of these effects have been human causes such as cutting down of trees (deforestation), bad farming practices especially in hilly areas and along river banks among others.
In trying to mitigate these climate change risks, CSOs in Kasese organised and held a climate change walk to raise community awareness in Kasese Municipality as one of the areas most affected.
Key among the activities was planting trees in the Kasese industrial park and talks to different groups of people in the area.
Speaking to the media during the walk, Yosia Baluku from GEDA thanked the organisers of the walk and committed GEDA’s support towards mitigation of the climate change challenges in the region. he further informed the participants that GEDA uganda was also working on a project in partnership with Kasese Municipality financed by Expertise France and a 1 acre modal had been planted with trees in Nyakabingo II. He said that it was everyone’s responsibility to restore our environment for a better future.
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