Meet the Team & Youth Ambassadors

Stephen Bright Sakwa

Youth Ambassador

Country: Uganda

Interests: Landscapes conservation and restoration, Humanitarian Food and Environment issues & Environmental education

Over the past 5 years, Sakwa has participated in programs focused on youth empowerment, community and environmental sustenance. He was selected among the 100 young restoration champions for Africa, and attended a landscape restoration program at ICRAF and the Global Landscapes Forum at UNEP. For two years he worked for the non-profit Tree Adoption Uganda as Programs Manager, planting over 200,000 trees in central Uganda, managing disaster risk reduction projects, and spearheading organization events like the RUN4CLIMATE-2020. He further collaborates with local NGOs in creating demo gardens and environmental education projects in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement.

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