Over the last few years intense floods and deadly heatwaves have become more frequent and severe in South Sudan, the youngest country in the world. The climate crisis coupled with increasing poverty and conflict both locally and within its neighboring countries, Sudan and the DRC, have displaced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. In this episode, we’ll hear from the women farmers most affected by the climate crisis and learn about some climate-smart techniques they’re implementing to adapt to the situation. Nisha also talks to Grace Dorong, a women’s rights leader from South Sudan and the Founder and Executive Director of Root of Generations, about why they shouldn’t have to go it alone.

LINKS
Women for Women's Climate report: https://www.womenforwomen.org/environment-conflict-gender

Root of Generation: https://rog.org.ss/index

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What is it about the food we eat that connects us to the places we’re from? For refugees fleeing conflict, cooking an old family recipe can be a treasured connection to a lost homeland. In this episode, we’ll hear from two women displaced by war, Women for Women International’s Storai Ahmadi and Zeina Kanawati from Women Now for Development about what they cook that reminds them of home. Nisha also talks to Heifa Odeh, Palestinian-American chef, Fufu’s Kitchen food blogger and author of Dine in Palestine about the recipes handed down through generations of her family. Learn more and find all the recipes from this episode here

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Season Three of What Makes us Stronger is back with new stories of courageous women in conflict zones. In the coming episodes, host Nisha Singh, hears from a group of men in a former ISIS stronghold in Iraq who’re ditching toxic masculinity for gender equality. Girls in Afghanistan and elsewhere explain how they are taking back their right to go to school. And we’ll find out why - for some refugees - a taste from home can be the first step towards solidarity in a strange land.

What Makes Us Stronger is a series by Women for Women International, an organization which helps women survivors of war rebuild their lives, families and communities. This season is brought to you thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery with funds awarded by Postcode Justice Trust in support of women survivors of war.

Find out more about the work of Women for Women here.
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