Women & Indigenous People
We empower women and aboriginal people by making sure their voices are heard, and by addressing issues that matter to them, such as access to education, family planning, healthcare, and clean water. With these basic needs met, they have a chance to make a better future for themselves, their families, and the natural world upon which they depend.
A Future of Possibility
When women, girls, and the aboriginal Batwa people are able to take control of their futures through participatory planning processes and improved access to education and healthcare, it not only improves their personal well-being, but reduces pressure on natural resources, helping communities thrive.
Women and aboriginal people do a disproportionate amount of agricultural labor. When they are unwell due to lack of health care, medication, nutrition, or excessive pregnancy, agricultural yields are meager. This often results in the seeking of more fertile soils, as families shift subsistence operations into new fields, thereby increasing deforestation as they expand operations.
Go Conscious Earth aims to ensure women and aboriginal people have better access to information, tools, and medications, so they are stronger, healthier, and able to make important decisions about their lives, sustainable practices, education, and family planning.
By aiding communities in improving their lives and livelihoods through gender and culture equality, we help improve overall wellness and well-being, while increasing opportunity for income generating projects that can focus outside of immediate family needs. By promoting sustainable practices, people come to know that protecting their environment promotes the long-term thriving of their community, their homelands, and their traditional ways of life.
Go Conscious Earth knows, nobody knows the forest like Central Africa’s aboriginal people, the Batwa.
The Batwa know where and when to hunt and fish in the deepest, most unreachable areas of the forest. The animals modern conservationists want to save are already protected by the Batwa.
They have their own conservation strategies passed down in knowledge and tradition for millennia by the elders of their culture. During the dry season, they don’t hunt because they know the animals are giving birth. Traps are not set near where animals go to drink. And certain animals are taboo to kill, such as the critically endangered bonobo. Severe punishment awaits those within Batwa communities who break their traditional rules of conservation. The Batwa know deeply the importance of biodiversity for rainforest health. Read More >
