Earth, water, woman.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Feinbloom, Sarah, director.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jaramogi, Akilah.

Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project (Trinidad and Tobago).

Women in conservation of natural resources--Trinidad and Tobago.

Women in conservation of natural resources.

Community forestry--Trinidad and Tobago.

Community forestry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (00:23:32)) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Good Docs, 2013.

Language Note:

Closed-captions in English.

Summary:

Earth, Water, Woman spotlights the Fondes Amandes Community ReForestation Project in Trinidad and Tobago, and its charismatic leader Akilah Jaramogi, in their ongoing efforts to transform barren hillsides into a vibrant, healthy ecosystem. A micro solution for the macro problem of climate change, this documentary urges young viewers everywhere to examine their relationship to Mother Earth. Three decades ago Akilah, a Rastafarian woman, settled on a barren, deforested hillside, blighted with floods in the rainy season and fires in the dry season. Together with her late husband, Tacuma, they started a family and reforested over 150 acres, restoring health to the hills and the watershed just outside the capital city of Port-of-Spain. When her husband died, Akilah continued this work, initiating the Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project (FACRP), training community members as stewards of the forests and waters. Today Fondes Amandes is a thriving village atop a flourishing forest of 150 acres where residents have planted about 60,000 seedlings over the past 30 years. The community is regularly visited by international dignitaries and Akilah is heralded as the Wangari Maathai of Trinidad and Tobago.

Participant:

Director, Sarah Feinbloom.

Notes:

Description based on XML content.

ISBN:

1-03-624699-X

9781036246990

OCLC:

1584443266

Publisher Number:

301635