Jobs and Vacancies

Vacancies: Volunteer (unpaid)

Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change

Description
LifeMosaic is looking for a volunteer to take on a self-contained piece of work to build up a library of educational resources on the issue of climate change. The volunteer will source a range of resources such as film, cartoon, booklet, radio from the formal  and informal education sectors for adults and children. Particularly looking for resources targeted at marginalised communities both UK and in the global south.
At the end of the resource gathering phase the volunteer will facilitate an informal session to discuss the resources with LifeMosaic staff.

Time commitment
Short term - time scales will be decided with the volunteer.

How this fits into LifeMosaic’s work
LifeMosaic is developing a set of educational resources, which will give voice to indigenous peoples’ experiences of climate change and help them to prepare for their futures. The resources will be based on the experiences and testimonies of indigenous communities in the humid tropics and will be disseminated to support networks, communities and policy-makers in the humid tropics.

Background to the issue
Indigenous peoples are and will be among the worst affected by climate change, and by large-scale carbon reduction projects; they have valuable information from monitoring the changing climate and their traditional knowledge is essential to mitigation and adaptation. Yet indigenous communities in the humid tropics often have limited information about the causes of climate change, or how it affects other peoples. And most have little or no say or representation in local, national or international climate change debates. As a result international climate policies, national adaptation strategies, and carbon reduction schemes are all being developed without any meaningful participation by some of the people most affected by these decisions.

Skill requirements
Research skills
Languages an advantage

If you are interested in volunteering, please send a CV and cover letter to info@lifemosaic.net

LifeMosaic is also interested in finding volunteers who could translate. Languages of particular interest are Indonesian, Tagalog, Spanish, French, Mandarin and any Indigenous languages.

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