Meet the Team & Youth Ambassadors

Monalisa

Youth Ambassador

Country: Indonesia

Interests: Smallholder farmer empowerment

Monalisa channels her expertise into landscape restoration and environmental education with the German-based NGO Fairventures Worldwide. Besides her work as the Communication Coordinator for Fairventures Worldwide in Indonesia, she is also working with her local community in Hurung Bunut to reawaken sustainable farming practices and provide alternative incomes for the villagers. She is now the head of a small farmer group in her village. She hopes these initiatives will help restore idle and degraded land formerly used for illegal gold mining. Monalisa is one of the founders of limarupa.id, a group of young people in Palangkaraya, that help small entrepreneurs create and promote sustainable products. Limarupa.id currently supports a women’s collective to produce organic single-use straws as a plastic alternative. The straws are made of a wild grass growing naturally in Borneo’s endangered peat areas. The project aims to create a new source of income for people who live in peatlands, increasing the incentive to protect these critical carbon sinks from annual fires.

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