Maria Horne
| Maria Horne | |
|---|---|
 Maria auma ecosoc yf.jpg Horne at the ECOSOC Youth Forum | |
| Born | Auma Maria Emma Ojok June 11, 1990 Uganda |
| 🏫 Education | Makerere University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 📆 Years active | 2016–present |
Maria Emma Horne (born Auma Maria Emma Ojok, June 11, 1990) is a Ugandan climate activist and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of Better Living Initiatives Global, a not for profit that works to improve environmental conservation and access to health and education through capacity building. Through BLI Global she has collaborated across the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia on environmental projects including the Saving Dolphins project with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Bangladesh in 2019.
Education[edit]
Horne graduated with a bachelor's degree in Mass Communication from Makerere University.[1]
Climate action and environmental lobbying[edit]
In August of 2018 Horne tried to get over 100,000 postcards from children in the Guinness World Records 100,000 post card challenge,[2] for a project initiated by the Swiss Agency for Development. Through the GAP, Horne worked with young people from ten countries including Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Libya, Lebanon, Nepal and Bangladesh going to schools to get children's opinions what climate action means to them. The Swiss project ended up mobilizing over 125,000 post cards in total which were displayed on the Aletsch Glacier.[3] Her participation in this advocacy campaign propelled her to the global stage[4] where she attended the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) conference[5] in Poland.
Through BLI Global, Horne continued her climate action work participating in the "Beat Air Pollution" campaign in 2019. She also became involved in lobbying governments for environmentally friendly policies and participated at the fourth assembly of United Nations Environment (UNEA4)[clarification needed] conference in Nairobi, Kenya where she met the incoming Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Inger Anderssen at the time.
Data4WASH[edit]
On September 27, 2020, in celebration of World Water Week, Horne facilitated the launch of the data4WASH platform in partnership with Media for Community Change Initiative, WaterAid Nigeria and the University of Ibadan. The technology is built to cluster locations from vulnerable communities that need improved water and sanitation facilities installed while driving finance to invest in solving the problem of clean water poverty.[6][7] The project is an initiative of both BLI Global and Media for Community Change.[8]
GYCAF[edit]
In early January 2020, Horne launched the Global Youth Climate Action Fund initiative (GYCAF) hosted by BLI Global. The goal of the fund is to raise and deploy over USD 100 billion by 2030 to youth organizations and activities.[9] The GYCAF has garnered attention from the COP26 Presidency and support from constituencies and organizations like UNEP, Slycan Trust, GEFI,[10] Citizens Climate International and YOUNGO. In 2022 the GYCAF issued its first grant based funding to projects in 10 countries including the regions of Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America.[11][12][13] In the same year the organization registered as a non-profit foundation with the aim of financing youth led climate projects through grant, debt and equity instruments.
United Nations and climate finance[edit]
In 2019 Horne participated at the Africa Climate Week[14] and the ECOSOC Youth Forum where together with the Youth Climate Movement (YOUNGO) constituency organized the Sustainable Development Goal 13 (SDG13) Climate Action break out session. She would attend the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) session and the United Nations Climate Action Summit where she advocated for more financing into youth-led climate action.[15] She also participated in the climate change conference later that year in Madrid where together Plant-for-the-Planet, Youth Climate Lab and Hatof Foundation and with support from the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) Presidency they organized a fireside event for young people to understand how business friendly CEOs can work with youth activists.[16] Together with Seyifunmi Adebote[17] from Media for Community Change she helped organize and moderate a session with the Republic of Nigeria at the South African Pavilion on "Understanding Climate finance." As one of the ambassadors of the Africa Youth Climate Hub Initiative,[18] she spoke alongside Oladuso Adenike on the kind of support that young people need to push for climate action.[19][20] Horne continues to share knowledge to young people on how to lobby governments at grassroots level for youth-inclusive financing.[21] She is a strong advocate for financing as a catalyst of climate action.[22]
Personal life[edit]
Horne is married to Robert Horne, an American investor and businessman.[citation needed]
Publications[edit]
In 2020, Horne published and co-authored books on climate action and her understanding of racism in the wake of the Black Lives Matter resurgence. James The Steward[23] is a children's story taken from a real life occurrence in Uganda co-authored with Herbert Murungi from Rural Environment Sustainability Initiative (RESI-Africa). James and Sarah have an awakening and begin to become Stewards of Change. A Dream[24] is also inspired by a true story and draws on the emotions of losing love and finding it again. Love Games[25] is the first book from the Seeing Grey Chronicles that explores Belinda's journey on race, relationships and life growing up as a teenager in America. On June 23rd, 2020, Horne together with RESI Africa published the second series in the James The Steward children's book, Keeper of The Forest.[26] The book teaches families the importance of protecting trees and draws on the real life threat to Bugoma Forest in Uganda. BLI Global has continued to promote climate literacy through their reading room sessions both virtually in physically within schools in Africa.[27]
Through funding from All The Sky Foundation,[28] and in collaboration from Reading Association of Uganda,[29] BLI Global and RESI began the deconstruction of James The Steward for first grade readers. The book is set to be published in 2023.
References[edit]
- ↑ "The Principal, College of Humanities and Social Sciences to present the following for the". azrefs.org. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ↑ "Giant postcard with 125,000 cards exposed on Swiss glacier". IUCN. December 3, 2018. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ↑ "Guinness record – the world's largest postcard against climate change". www.eda.admin.ch. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ↑ "IISD/ENB @ COP 24 | December 2, 2018 | Katowice, Poland | IISD Reporting Services". enb.iisd.org. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ↑ "UNFCCC – COP24". unfccc-cop24.streamworld.de. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ↑ "Launching the #Data4WASH Platform". NextBillion. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
- ↑ Simire, Michael (August 25, 2020). "WASH: Groups partner to leverage data to address water poverty". EnviroNews Nigeria -. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
- ↑ "Interactive map uses data to combat water poverty in Nigeria". www.posibl.com. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
- ↑ "Youth Voices at COP26: GEFI parners with Global Youth Climate Action Fund - Path to Cop26". Retrieved 2021-11-18.
- ↑ "Youth Voices at COP26: GEFI parners with Global Youth Climate Action Fund - Path to Cop26". Retrieved 2022-11-05.
- ↑ fundsforNGOs (2022-02-03). "GYCAF Microgrants Program to support Youth-led Climate Action Projects". fundsforNGOs. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
- ↑ moussakayre_p082337i (2022-02-03). "GYCAF Microgrants Program to support Youth-led Climate Action Projects". Concoursn.com (in français). Retrieved 2022-11-05.
- ↑ "Youth Climate Projects by GYCAF". Global Youth Climate Action Fund. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
- ↑ Ms MARIA AUMA, Founder, Uganda (People s Perspectives), retrieved January 29, 2020
- ↑ AYCH Interview with Maria Auma (Meet an Ambassador a Day – 7), retrieved January 29, 2020
- ↑ "UNFCCC – COP25". unfccc-cop25.streamworld.de. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ↑ "'Seyifunmi Adebote – Environmentalist, Media Consultant and Development Practitioner". Retrieved 2022-11-05.
- ↑ Climate Hub, Africa Youth. "The African Youth Climate Hub" (PDF). AYCCH.
- ↑ ""FM6E: Providing Concrete Support and highlighting Youth needs and expertise for Climate Action"". Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ↑ "COP 25 – Rencontre avec Marie Auma, activiste ougandaise". REFEDD – RÉseau Français des Étudiants pour le Développement Durable (in français). December 20, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ↑ Thomas, Seren (July 19, 2019). "Finding Our Future Leaders: An Interview with Maria Auma". Impakter. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ↑ "Maria Auma – The startup story of an African woman-owned investment management company looking to empower the continent's entrepreneurs". Lionesses of Africa. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ↑ Auma Horne, Maria (2020). James The Steward. Independently published. ISBN 979-8635388556. Search this book on
- ↑ Auma Horne, Maria (2020). A Dream: Love Lost and Found. Independently published. ISBN 979-8636689003. Search this book on
- ↑ Auma Horne, Maria (2020). Love Games (Seeing Grey Chronicles Book 1). Independently published. ISBN 979-8669472757. Search this book on
- ↑ Horne, Maria (2021). Keeper of The Forest. US: Independently Published. ISBN 979-8524634894. Search this book on
- ↑ "Recap: Climate Reading Rooms Project – Uganda". BLI Global. 2022-09-05. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
- ↑ "All The Sky Foundation". All The Sky Foundation. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
- ↑ "Reading Association of Uganda – Literacy – A Bridge to Equity". Retrieved 2022-11-05.
External links[edit]
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- Maria Horne on Instagram
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