Swedish activist Greta Thunberg will donate 150,000 euros (approximately 234,000 Canadian dollars) to NGOs active to support “people on the front lines of the climate crisis in Africa”, through her recently created foundation, she announced on Wednesday. .
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the solar energy NGO Solar Sister, as well as the advocacy NGO Oil Change International, will each receive 50,000 euros.
“We are facing a global emergency, which affects us all. But not everyone suffers the same way, ”said the famous teenager in a statement. “Africa is disproportionately hit by the climate crisis, even though it contributes the least to it,” she said.
Founded in December 2019 after the young Swede won the Right Livelihood Award endowed with one million Swedish kronor (just under 100,000 euros), the Greta Thunberg Foundation had a significant inflow of money this summer.
In July, the young climate activist won the “Gulbenkian for Humanity” prize, a Portuguese award endowed with one million euros.
Greta Thunberg had promised to donate all of it via her foundation to environmental protection associations. The Brazilian branch of the Fridays for Future movement and the Stop Ecocide Foundation had received 100,000 euros each.
Known for having popularized the strike movement and youth demonstrations for the climate since 2018, the face of Fridays for Future resumed the paths of school at the end of August, after a sabbatical year. She is due to participate in an international action day of the movement on Friday, from Stockholm.