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  • Amy (in yellow), with the local women's group, who farm oysters and lead climate adaptation on Djirnda Island.

    Amy (in yellow), with the local women's group, who farm oysters and lead climate adaptation on Djirnda Island. Photo: Ina Makosi/ActionAid

    The women battling rising sea levels in Senegal

    Posted 20 Mar 2025

    Climate change is at the heart of both World Water Day and World Meteorological Day, as it intensifies global water challenges and extreme weather patterns. Climate change disrupts the water cycle, causing rising sea levels, severe droughts, floods, and contamination of freshwater sources - all disproportionately impacting women and children in the world’s poorest regions.

    In this blog you can read about how a community in Senegal is adapting to climate change and what it means for the future of climate resilience.

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