Mulindwa Moses

Believe Youth – Kampala, Uganda

Mulindwa Moses is a climate and environmental justice advocate from Uganda involved in lobbying for environmental laws, enforcing the pre-existing ones or protesting and publicly opposing harmful projects. He is the founder of Believe Youth, which aims to create climate resilient societies and to empower Uganda’s youth.

He is also the leader of the “Two trees a week” initiative, which aims to regrow forests to combat deforestation and help stop mudslides exacerbated by changing weather patterns. While traveling in eastern Uganda, Moses met with families who had lost their homes in mudslides caused by torrential rainfall. He said he has received death threats because of his work.

The 23-year-old climate activist will conduct strikes alone on the roadside. At one point he did it for 55 days consecutively, but now just strikes on Fridays and Saturdays, raising awareness for the Save Congo Rainforest and Two Trees a Week campaigns.

During the pandemic, he launched the COVID-19 Emergency Food Fund to provide hundreds of families with nutritious food, focusing on communities affected by floods and locusts.

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