In rural areas, the women wear many hats for a household chores such as cooking, washing, farming or harvesting. Their lives already difficult as it is to secure clean water and food for daily consumption.
Hence, climate change hit them harder as they depend on natural resources to provide for their families, albeit horrendous living.
Flood or drought kills their source of livelihood, both food for consume or source of income. To restart, they need money and to regrow their crops, need time.
While gearing up again from post natural disaster, the impact is harder on women to work perhaps double the effort to supply for their families.
The impact of climate change on the indigenous women health and economy are paramount. Clean water, sustenance from small agriculture or forest nearby and rearing livestock are their main sources to continue cycle of lives. These are essential to them.
Their cries are not amplified enough. With limited access to information, their awareness are deem low. They probably could only wait for NGOs or responsible government agency to reach out and help them.
Urban poor women also suffer as much as the rural women from climate change perhaps in a different setting. Comes natural disaster, the poor lost more than regular people.
They usually have no or very least saving to endure natural emergencies. Their jobs are usually paid daily which can be lost at any time, not as secure as the monthly salary job.
This is a reality that crawls in our life, seemingly bit by bit. If we do not take preventive measures and implement practical initiatives now, it will get worsen years later.
Climate change already accelerates, let’s focus on addressing this crisis. Communities, government and private entities must work together and gear up to sustainability solutions and eco-green approaches. Only then the women and their families can improve their ways of living for better environment and better future.
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