The Mbura experiment
For rural sub-Saharan communities, our experiment offers a localized approach to climate information dissemination, empowering them with agroforestry practices to adapt
What is Mbura!
(pronounced buˈra) A word that has origins in East Africa. For some Kenyan natives, it means rain, while for others in Tanzania it means ‘leader in Africa’.
Indigenous religion in Africa was often tied to the natural environment, with influence on community and land management. An example is the Kikuyu tribe in Kenya that prayed for mbura (rain) facing Mt. Kenya when droughts occurred.
Our stories!
With awareness, communities would not only be empowered, but also be enabled to lead their own resilience stories. While this is happening in some places, it is not commonplace and yet it should be!
What if...
We made natives who speak English aware of this 'awareness gap'? Would it encourage those who are climate aware to actively support communities in their pursuit of adaptation and resilience?
Consider this our experiment!
Where awareness of the changing climate is borne out of local experiences and detached from the climate science, we facilitate local conversations to help natives leap towards adaptation and resilience
Support this initiative
Firstly, we plan to map out the rural communities that have climate knowledge in their native languages versus those that do not and gather information on their food system sustenance situation. To do this, we need your help!
Meet our ambassadors
We will turn to these individuals to scale our experiment; to help us process their communities to find out if they have climate knowledge in their native languages or not
Activists
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