Introduce students to climate change activist Vanessa Nakate using one or more of these suggested sources/resources:

As students learn about Nakate ask them to take notes in order to respond to the following questions.

• Where is Vanessa Nakate from? Uganda
• What movements does Nakate take part in? What is Nakate fighting for? The fight for Climate Change; Global Warming; Health & Economic outcomes for Uganda and Africa
• Why does Vanessa Nakate remind us that  is it important to focus on Africa when addressing the climate crisis?
• What happened when Nakate participated in the UN Youth climate summit? Why was it important? Nakate was edited out of a picture which felt as though her voice and the voice/needs of African people were being left out 

Ask students as part of a whole group discussion to think about and make connections between what they know about how the past desire for gold/wealth and the current desire for industry/wealth have negatively impacted the people of Africa.

Resource:

• Vanessa Nakate (Little People, BIG DREAMS) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara