Campaign for climate justice: women’s team sets out for Gorekshep

SOLUKHUMBU: MARCH. 7 – A team including Supreme Court judge Sapana Pradhan Malla and others has left Lobuche for Gorekshep.

The team had stayed at Lobuche on Sunday and set out for Gorekshep this morning. The squad comprising 40 females is far okay, according to Prajita Kari, chair of an organisation Saath Sathai that organises the trip to Kalapathhar, located at an elevation of 5,600 meters above sea level.

The team that arrived in Lukla on Feb 28 is scheduled to reach Kalapaththar on Monday morning and organise a special programme on the occasion of the International Women’s Day that falls on March 8 each year.

‘Women United for Climate Justice’

The squad comprising working women from different walks of life is on a 13-day walk organised with the theme of ‘Women United for Climate Justice’ aims to draw the global concern over the impact of climate change and advocate for climate justice.

The Kalapathhar programme will be primarily focused on major consequences of climate change: snow melting and drying of water resources and their effects on women’s life.

Besides the event is expected to help in promoting domestic tourism.

Various organisations and people from various walks of life have taken the campaign positively, said the organiser. For all people joining the campaign having successfully reached Gorekshep with the support of all just one day before the programme has indicated the realisation of the aim of the drive, said Karki.

Elite Expedition has undertaken affairs of other management for the programme. Similarly, police have been mobilised for security.

However, the local people of Kalapathar at Khumbupasang Rural Municipality where the programme is scheduled to take place are unaware of the event.

In the programme on the occasion, a declaration letter relating to the impact of climate change on the lives of women would be issued.

The Rural Municipality and the people’s representatives said that they had not been officially informed about the programme. “We have heard about it only through the media,” said the acting chair of the Rural Municipality, Tasi Lhamu Sherpa.

The local level has not been reached for coordination for the event, she said, adding that participation of the local level would make the programme more relevant.

-RSS