Event:Urban wetlands protection and advocacy campaign in Rwanda

Africa Environment WikiFocus Celebrates Wangari Maathai Day

“No matter how dark the cloud, there is always a thin, silver lining, and that is what we must look for. The silver lining will come, if not to us then to next generation or the generation after that. And maybe with that generation the lining will no longer be thin.” ― Wangari Maathai, Unbowed: A Memoir

Urban Wetland Protection and Advocacy Campaign in Rwanda 2023 aims at raising awareness on Wikimedia projects on addressing the effects of environmental threats caused by the encroachment of ecological system by human anthropogenic activities in our neighborhood, loss of biodiversity as well as pollution, loss of some important species and threats them from their comfortable habitat in wetlands, which is highly contributing on environmental degradation and contributing as well to the increasing climate change consequences. This campaign will provide an approach to community conservation on our continent in nowadays ecological protection. And endogenous knowledge can contribute to and inform future decision-making.

Context

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  • Create and improve articles about Climate of Rwanda with more emphasis on urban wetland protection and advocacy.
  • Capacity building for new and existing editors about the proper usage of Wikimedia's projects, and how to contribute on them.
  • Community outreach and planting trees with intention of showcasing the importance of protecting the environment based on their daily activities.

Organizing Team

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How to participate

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  Sign in or Create a New Account on Kinyarwanda Wikipedia

  enroll to the dashboard through this link.

  Create or improve an article on French, English, or Kinyarwanda Wikipedia that is under the theme cited above, or translate a corresponding article.

  Add statistics on Wikidata.

  During upload stage in a comment section add our hashtag: #WangariMaathaiRw

Click Here to Enroll on the Dashboard

Scheduled Events

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Mark your calendar!
20th March 2023
  • Training on introduction to Wikipedia, Edit-a-thon and translate-a-thon.

 

27th March 2023
  • History of Wangari Maathai, Edit-a-thon and translate-a-thon.

 

08th April 2023
  • Edit-a-thon, translate-a-thon and Data-a-thon.

 

22nd April 2023
  • Interactive session under the theme: Role of youth in Climate action as in SDG 13, community and planting trees.

 

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Partners

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Africa Environment WikiFocus Organisers

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African Knowledge Initiative Working Group Members

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