Meet One Of Our Founders

RANDA AL TURABI

I am aSudanese environmental activist. Due to my academic background studying environmental science; I developed an interesting climate change and sustainable development issues. I am also very much interested to work with communities and to implement community outreach activities.

I am passionate about voluntary work; I have been engaged in number of voluntary community initiatives since 2011. During my university study I was volunteering to organize university’s social and cultural events. Also, in 2011, I was a member in the Executive Committee of Sudanese Assembly of Youth (SAY), an NGO that works in youth development. In 2015, I coordinated the World Environment Day under the UNESCO Cousteau Eco - technical chair – THE Future University. I was hosted as a public speaker where I gave a speech about waste management in Sudan.

In 2015, I joined the Sudanese Environment Conservation Society (SECS) as a volunteer. SECS is a national NGO, established in 1975, it focuses on achieving environment conservation and sustainable development through the participation of different stakeholders. Currently, I work with a group of youth in a project about the risks and impact of gold mining on the environment in Sudan. In addition, I have been a writer at a Sudanese Newspaper named (AkhbarAlyom) since 2015, I published articles about climate change and environmental issues, which targeting to raise awareness about climate issues especially among youth. Also, I am a volunteer in Climate Tracker organization; an international organization which gives youth the opportunity to influence national policies and international negotiations through journalism. Furthermore, I won a fellowship with the World’s Largest Youth –Led Climate Journalism Organizationin a competition to publish articles about the impact of climate change in Sudan which was translated to English.In addition; I translated handbook beginner guideline and Op-ed about climate change from English to Arabic language. Recently, I have been involved in a Project of Advocacy Head Sudan of the ClimatEducate Global under the Alpha Team Organization (ATO) which is an International multi-interest youth organization based in the Philippines.  ClimatEducate aims to spread climate change education through online advocacy, info-graphics and community immersion, I have been organizing a non-online Initiative (NOI) on the 15^th of November at Khartoum International Preparatory School in Sudan where I gave a presentation about the disaster of climate change.

                               
                                     Article by: Randa Al Turabi
                                     Environmentalist
                                     Sudan