By: Hadi Khan
15 years old Fatima Faraz Hoti has been campaigning for climate justice in the streets of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northernmost province of Pakistan. She is known as the country’s youngest climate activist. She herself learnt about global warming |climate change at school.
The Global Climate Risk Index has placed Pakistan on the fifth spot on the list of countries most vulnerable to climate change in its annual report for 2020.
Fatima does not has an ancestral connection to climate science. She told, I have been working as a child activist since 2014 and climate activist in 2019. I realized at that time that climate change is emerging as a massive challenge and it’s time to play my part in tackling climate crisis. Worryingly, climate crisis isn’t being taken seriously by most of our population, she added.
Hoti has founded an organization named “Eco-guards” to promote awareness about environmental issues. As per the 15 years old activist, we have conducted many sessions and painting exhibitions in different parts of the province to educate people about climate change.
Fatima is a member of Fridays For Future, an international movement that began in 2018 after 15 years old Greta Thunberg and other young activists sat in front of the Swedish Parliament every schoolday for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis. She posted what she was doing on Instagram and Twitter and it soon went viral.
When Hoti was asked about her future goals, she told, me and my organization will keep working on climate change and we are trying to conduct informative sessions at school levels along with launching digital media campaigns. We will expand our work to the other provinces of the country too. We will be organizing a session in Balochistan as the COVID-19 situation gets better.
She thinks, climate education should be declared mandatory in educational institutions and we could only have a good tomorrow if we learn today. She also aspires to meet the premiere of the country to present the services of her team to his Ten Billion Trees Tsunami Program.
She visited Kabul, Afghanistan this year. I, along with other fellow activists visited
many Afghan government officials including Dr. Abdullah Abdulllah, Chairman of
the High Council for National Reconciliation to discuss climate crisis and its
impact on Pak-Afghan region, she tweeted on Twitter.
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