Atlas Corps International Advocacy Fellow with Population Action International in Washington Dc, Esther Agbarakwe, has said that they are on their partnership with the National Emergency management Agency (NEMA) in tackling the ravaging flooding crisis.
‘Presently, as a coalition we are focusing on the ravaging flood issues, it has become a major challenge and we are mobilising young volunteers all over the country for NEMA. You know governments cannot do everything alone. We are recruiting young people as volunteers, who will assist the agency when there is an emergency, and also calling on other stakeholders to assist the victims.
She further expressed her disappointment in the last Rio +20 conference, which was held on June 20-22, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Esther, who is Popularly known as Estherclimate, the young Nigerian climate change policy advisor and president of Nigerian youth climate coalition was one of the four youths specially invited by world leaders in the run-up to the UN conference on sustainable development to dialogue (Elders+youngers debate) on the change needed to secure a sustainable and more equitable world for all.
In an chat with LEADERSHIP WEEKEND, Esther expressed her disappointment.
‘I must tell you I was sad when I looked at the Nigerian delegations in Rio +20 and didn’t see any young person in the team.
It was good that the country was represented and the president was there but I was not happy to see that no young person was there.