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News · 22 April 2022

BARBADOS: Dance for Climate Justice

The Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator and Dance4Life entered an innovative partnership in Barbados to integrate climate advocacy, gender equity, and youth empowerment into community action.

BARBADOS: Dance for Climate Justice
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By Kiesha Farnum, Director, Public Sector Projects CCSA & 

Kayla Archer Dance4Life Barbados

Dance4Life Barbados

The Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator (CCSA) and Dance4life are both thrilled to announce the officiation of a partnership that will bolster the Dance4Life movement to address the cross-cutting issues of women’s’ and LGBTQ+ rights, sexual and reproductive health, and climate justice. In a Memorandum of Understanding signed April 20, 2022 the agreement speaks to sharing climate action knowledge, incorporating climate advocacy into the Dance4life programming and mutually supportive capacity building for inclusive climate solutions.

Together, both organisations envision a world in which Caribbean youths are empowered to make the best decisions for their futures. This must include an awareness of and care for the environment.

Even as the world celebrate Earth Day 2022, The CCSA and Dance4Life celebrate their firm commitment to the work ahead to creating a Climate-Smart Caribbean region!

About the CCSA

The Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator, CCSA is an engine that catalyzes and accelerates priority initiatives toward a Climate-Smart Zone, delivering resilience, social development, and broad-based economic growth for the Caribbean.

About Dance4Life

Dance4Life envisions a world where all young people are able to shape their future the way they see it. A world in which they are able to make healthy sexual choices and develop healthy relationships. That is what Dance4Life stands for.

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