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Empowering Youth for Environmental Justice: The East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project Protest
In a powerful display of unity and determination, Youth for Green Communities organized a University Day of Actions on July 3, 2023, in two key locations in Uganda: Hoima and Kampala. Students from various universities nationwide came together to raise their voices against the controversial East African Crude Oil Pipeline project. This initiative aimed to shed light on the project's devastating impacts on local communities and the environment while also advocating for change.
GURU Fund: Makerere University-Fees Must Fall!
#FeesMustFall was triggered by a proposed 15 percent annual increase in fees for privately sponsored students (more than half of the student body) in Uganda. It was also backed by reports of misappropriation of funds that ran in the millions under Janet Museveni, the First Lady of Uganda and Minister of Education.
GURU Fund: Amuru youth strike again
Amuru Youth Development Forum mobilized 25 young activists to impound vehicles carrying logs to thwart deforestation. 37 trucks have been impounded so far with about 7400 bags of charcoal destroyed or redistributed to the local community.
GURU FUND: Zimbabwe National Student Union carries out HoldTheDoor! action
In March 2021, the Zimbabwean Government approved a fees increase of up to a massive 450 percent for universities following proposals by tertiary institutions in the country. A number of brave Zimbabwean students pushed for a complete reversal of the policy. They organised a blockade at the administration building, and sang and chanted while addressing other students and informing them of their right to quality, affordable education.
GURU Grantee: Right Care Alliance
Insulin continues to be the poster child for how the American healthcare system is failing as people struggle to afford and ration their insulin. On a cold November morning, 80 people gathered at Galaxy Park in Cambridge, MA, at the premises of several pharmaceutical companies to demonstrate.
GURU fund awardees Friends of Zoka creatively curtail charcoal barons
A group of activists from the little-known village of Alupinzinzuru , Adjumani District known as Friends of Zoka are courageously disrupting illegal logging and commercial charcoal burning.
GURU Grantee: Zimbabwe's rural teachers demand a wage
Civil servants in Zimbabwe are earning the Zimbabwe dollar equivalent of around $40 a month — twelve times lower than the poverty line. In October 2020, the Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) rallied for a living wage.
GURU Grantee: Africa Unite School Club
Wearing their school uniform to deter excessive force from the police, the pupils from the Africa Unite School Club sat outside with powerful messages, songs, and chants, demanding that the parliamentary committee on climate change increase funding towards environmental protection before approving the 2020 national budget.