INTERVIEW-Women key to solving climate crisis, says Ugandan school striker

(Reuters, 27 Feb 2020) The student is calling for climate victims to help find solutions after learning her own family were among those impacted by a rapidly warming world.

LONDON, Feb 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Student Hilda Flavia Nakabuye is at the forefront of Uganda's Fridays for Future strikes - but it was years until the 22-year-old realised her own family were victims of climate change.

Storms and drought forced Nakabuye's family to sell their livestock and almost all their land a decade ago, and she was forced out of school for months over unpaid tuition fees. None of them understood why their luck had turned so bad.

"We all didn't know it was because of climate change," Nakabuye told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview from the Ugandan capital, Kampala, recalling her grandmother's confusion and distress.

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Reuters, 27 Feb 2020: INTERVIEW-Women key to solving climate crisis, says Ugandan school striker