Saint-Louis, January 24 (APS) – The Khar Yalla district of Saint-Louis (north) hosted, Thursday evening, a community forum on climate governance and energy transition in Senegal, at the initiative of the network called “ Active citizens for social justice” (CAJUST).
“It is within the framework of our +Green accountability+ project that we approached the population of Khar Yalla. And we heard about the difficult conditions in which these populations lived. We approached them and they gave us a list of all the difficult conditions we were facing,” declared Astou Diop, project manager at CAJUST, on the sidelines of this community forum.
She specified that it is in this context that CAJUST came to support the populations of Khar Yalla. And, through this project, she added, the objective is to try to see how to get the authorities to hear their concerns and come to their aid.
“Green accountability” is intended to be a project on green accountability which fights for everything related to climate change and whose objective is to raise the voice of communities, particularly young people and women, for transparent, fair and equitable implementation. of JEPT in Senegal, she explained in particular.
Ms. Diop also recalled the missions of CAJUST which, according to her, is a network of youth and women’s organizations working to combat all forms of social injustice.
She also deplored the living conditions of the populations of this district of Saint-Louis faced with darkness, promiscuity, among other things.
-Fama Sarr, deputy secretary of the Local Artisanal Fishing Council (CLPA), also a processor of fishery products, for her part, magnified the holding of this community forum.
Victims of the advance of the sea in the Langue de Barbarie, these populations were relocated in the Khar Yalla district.
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