Siri is our Climate Ambassador!

Siri Karavida, ex-ESC volunteer at GEAI, finished her volunteering year with us in September 2019. The list of the things she managed to do while in Ireland is pretty impressive: Climate Action Days at schools, the household energy survey of Boyle, the Leitrim Cróga project (more on it soon!) and many more. However, amongst her main achievements she mentions becoming a Climate Ambassador.

What is Climate Ambassador?

The Climate Ambassador programme is a great opportunity to become a leader in your school, campus or community and to promote positive climate actions in a local context.

Climate change effects can be felt here and now, at a local, national and global scale. Becoming a Climate Ambassador gives people the opportunity and platform to do something really positive within our communities. Adapting to climate change and mitigating the adverse impacts is a growing concern in every community in Ireland.

Siri shares her experience

“My main action was delivering talks and presentations related to climate change in schools. It has been a very valuable experience, because I got the opportunity to talk about climate change to young students, who are the future active citizens and on whom the climate change will have the biggest impact. With my talks I reached about 140 people who were very engaged and interested. I faced some challenges regarding delivering the message of climate change without scaring and discouraging the students. I achieved that by finishing my talks with a positive message that there is still time and if we change our behaviour, climate change can be tackled. I was very surprised at the level of knowledge that the people already had on the issue, and the attention and engagement that they showed!”

If you are interested in becoming a Climate Ambassador, more information is available on the official website of the programme.

Alexandra Peralaika