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Neil
The award recognised the personal risks Eucharia takes in her efforts to
bring
the
land
back to life
. If you
bring something back to life,
you make it come alive again,
or
reanimate it, after it has died.
Beth
A big problem for climate scientists is being accepted and trusted by the people
living
in polluted places, but Eucharia has found
a way to work with local
communities. Listen again to
Georgina Rannard, of
BBC World Service’s, People
Fixing the World, who is followed by Eucharia Nwaichi herself
…
Georgina Rannard
Her success often comes from getting communities who have deep mistrust of
outsiders after
broken promises
from companies to clean up the oil spills. She gets
them to trust her and then they take ownership for the
restoration of
their land…
and I think Eucharia’s
magic formula
really relies on diplomacy, trust, and actually
charisma
which is a very important quality.
Eucharia Nwaichi
W
e have a leadership structure… so you have the
chief
- like traditional ruler, you
have the women leader, you have the youth leader, so you find out who those, and
informed them of what you wanna do.
Neil
Local people’s mistrust of big oil companies comes from their
broken promises
-
times when they said they would definitely do something but then failed to.
Beth
Eucharia, on the other hand, is trusted because she consults the community by
speaking with local
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