XR Uganda Great Lakes - Climate Caravan

Climate Caravans are happening around the world in countries like Bolivia, Brazil, Spain, Indonesia and others.  XR Great Lakes Region Uganda is leading the pursuit in East Africa. We hope if all goes well to have the great caravan movement for two weeks in Uganda.

We have 100 youth activists confirmed and ready to hit the road or to participate. We believe that the youth of this generation have a reason to advocate for climate justice and if we decide to keep quiet we are likely to have no future. And so we believe it's time to act and now is the time to see things changing. The caravans are intended to bring different youth groups from Uganda under one common agenda of climate activism to lead the frontline against the various climatic injustices.

We are having the caravans because of various reasons.
*EACOP (East African Crude Oil Pipeline). A few months ago the Presidents of Uganda and Tanzania signed an oil pipeline deal in Dar el Salaam. Governments are not looking at the impacts of the fossil fuels rather they are looking at profits. The situation surrounding the status of Lake Albert, Lake Edward and Lake Kyoga is at a great risk.  All this work of the oil pipeline under the guise of CNOOC International and Total Oil.

*End plastic pollution. This campaign has been running around the world for quite sometime and guess what, Coca-Cola and Pepsi have never stopped producing drinks in plastic bottles, neither water bottling companies, nor plastic producing companies. We all know the impacts of plastic pollution right from the  ecosystem to the industrial carbon emissions. 

*Extinction. As we very much know extinction of animal, tree, plant and fish species etc has been going on long enough and we haven't done enough to stop it.  As we hit the road we want to remind the poachers that killing the famous animals in the game parks, for example elephants to extract ivory, is the worst thing to do. 

*Water security. Currently there is sand mining from Lake Victoria by Chinese companies which has led to rise in water levels, flooding of places near water source causing diseases. The government deployed on the fishing lakes so as to chase away the native fishermen which resulted into poisoning of fish species due to industrial fishing for famous species Nile perch. With such happenings in our country on our watch,  it would be absurd for as to look on yet the deeds of these greedy men costs our future and the generation after us.

We are looking at our confirmed number of people (100) but we have hope that many people will join the trail according to the response from various groups we are expectant of 200 people and more.

We shall be covering 400km from Isingiro district, to Mbarara, Hoima, Kibaale,  Masaka,  Mpigi,  Mityana, Wakiso, Kampala,  Mukono,  Buikwe, Jinja. These districts cover the route from Western Uganda to Eastern Uganda. We shall end in Jinja at the famous location of the source of the Nile

Enroute of the caravans we shall have actions in pin point areas.