| Dear Friends,
As 2025 comes to a close, we want to thank you for your steadfast championship of Women’s Earth Alliance. Your partnership has helped strengthen a vital ecosystem of women-led climate and health solutions.
In the U.S., WEA rose to meet this moment. We supported a powerful alliance of frontline leaders building community food systems, health programs, and emergency infrastructure in regions long overlooked. These women are not only responding to wildfires, drought, and water contamination—they are building lasting resilience for their communities.
Internationally, our alliances continue to model scalable systems change. In Sumatra, Indonesia, recent floods displaced entire villages. Because of years of investment in local leadership, WEA Leaders mobilized within hours to deliver clean water, food, shelter, and emergency supplies. In Kenya, we launched our first Resilience Center in the region, designed to support women’s livelihoods, public health, and climate resilience.
In 2025, WEA and our partners:
- Trained 5,500 women and girls—70% from Indigenous or marginalized communities
- Protected 6,500+ hectares of ecosystems
- Grew 90,000 trees
- Reached 100,000+ people with food, water, health services, and economic opportunity
These outcomes are tangible and they are only possible when grassroots leaders are trusted, resourced, and connected.
Your gift will help:
- Build climate resilience hubs: Safe community spaces offering training, resources, and steady support.
- Launch green microenterprises: Women-led eco-businesses that generate income and stability.
- Equip women farmers + ensure food security: Seeds, tools, and training to grow food and nourish communities.
- Deliver rapid disaster relief: Clean water, shelter supplies, and emergency cash when crisis hits.
- Train young women leaders: Skills, mentorship, and opportunities for girls leading climate and health solutions.
We hope you’ll stand with us again. The need is urgent and the opportunity to create lasting change has never been greater.
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| In partnership,
Kahea, Amira and Melinda
Co-Executive Directors, Women’s Earth Alliance
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| Centering Frontline Women's Voices at COP30
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A Moral Compass for Climate Action:
Insights from WEA’s Global Ethical Stocktake
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WEA Leader Tri Astuti at the WEA's 2019 Indonesia Grassroots Accelerator. Credit: Women’s Earth Alliance.
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“Humanity needs to move from a mindset of taking to a mindset of caring.” — Tri Astuti, WEA Indonesia Leader
As global leaders gathered in Belém last month to negotiate the next chapter of climate action, a parallel process was underway—one that centers ethics, cultural frameworks, and the wisdom of those most impacted. The Global Ethical Stocktake (GES) was created to complement the technical assessments that typically shape international climate agreements, bringing moral clarity and grounded insight into COP30. While the UN’s Global Stocktake evaluates progress toward the Paris Agreement based on emissions and policy commitments, the GES asks: What values, responsibilities, and worldviews must guide climate action if it is to be just, effective, and lasting?
Alongside our colleagues at Project Dandelion and other NGOs, Women’s Earth Alliance contributed to this process by gathering reflections from grassroots women leaders across our global alliance. Through a self-organized dialogue, WEA Leaders shared how traditions, intergenerational knowledge, and ethical responsibilities shape their environmental leadership. They named the systems—political, economic, and cultural—that have normalized extraction, and offered a path forward grounded in reciprocity, restraint, and care.
From Kenya to Indonesia and beyond, these reflections reveal a clear truth: the values guiding climate action are just as critical as the actions themselves. The wisdom surfaced through this dialogue calls us to expand our definition of leadership—beyond policies and pledges, toward deeper cultural and relational transformation.
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Nigeria’s Resistance Hub for Climate Justice
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WEA Regional Lead and WISE Director Olanike Olugboji Daramola addresses a crowd. Credit: WISE.
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In Kaduna, Nigeria, WISE (Women Initiative for Sustainable Environment), in partnership with AWID and Women’s Earth Alliance, hosted the COP30: Nigeria Resistance Hub for Climate Justice—a powerful gathering centering rural women farmers often excluded from global climate spaces.
Described by participants as “our own COP,” the event created space for collective reflection, policy dialogue, and storytelling. WEA Regional Lead and WISE Director Olanike Olugboji-Daramola read from her contribution to The Anthology of Climate Impact Stories in Africa, highlighting how women are both bearing the brunt of the crisis and leading local solutions.
This gathering, like WEA’s Global Ethical Stocktake, is part of a broader movement to ensure that frontline women are not only included in climate conversations—but are shaping them.
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Sumatra Flood Crisis Update
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West Sumantra floodwaters. Credit: WEA Leader Nofri Yani.
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When devastating floods swept across North Sumatra, West Sumatra, and Aceh earlier this month, WEA Leaders were ready to jump into action—organizing community kitchens, delivering emergency supplies, and in some cases walking five days to reach remote villages cut off by the disaster. Their deep knowledge and commitment allowed them to reach people and places few others could.
Because of your support—and the long-standing relationships WEA has built—we were able to mobilize urgent resources directly to grassroots women leaders. These trusted organizers responded immediately, distributing thousands of hot meals, providing health and hygiene supplies, and launching recovery efforts that continue today.
This is the power of investing in local leadership. Thank you for making this response possible.
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Breaking Ground on WEA’s Resilience Centre in Nairobi, Kenya
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(L) Overhead drone shot of the WEA Resilience Center and Plastic Recycling Facility site. (R) Digital mockup of planned Center.
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Construction is officially underway on WEA’s Resilience Center in Nairobi—a community-rooted hub co-created with local partners to support women-led environmental and health solutions. Designed for training, experimentation, and hands-on learning, the Center will feature demonstration gardens, compost systems, seedling nurseries, and a women-run recycling facility that transforms plastic waste into safer livelihoods and building materials.
This space is the first of its kind in Nairobi and will serve as a launchpad for women leaders across Kenya to build climate-resilient businesses, strengthen community health, and grow long-term solutions from the ground up.
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First National Gathering of Sirenas de México Unites
Women Divers for Ocean Conservation
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Divers gather at the first national Sirenas de México meeting.
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In October, women divers from across Mexico gathered in La Paz for the first national Sirenas de México meeting—building a cross-regional movement to protect marine ecosystems and the communities that depend on them. Over three days, they shared strategies, built lasting alliances, and shaped a collective vision for community-led ocean conservation.
WEA was honored to join our Mexico Program Lead, Sirenas de México and the women divers as they advanced solutions to protect reefs, mangroves, kelp forests, and coastal livelihoods.
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From Classroom to Community:
Black Girls Green Futures Mural Project in South L.A.
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Mural designed and painted by Nikila Badua and BGGF students at Environmental Charter Middle School.
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This fall, WEA’s Black Girls Green Futures program launched a series of four-week apprenticeships designed to equip young Black leaders in South Los Angeles with hands-on experience in environmental careers. In partnership with Environmental Charter School and Seeds of Carver, students explored pathways in environmental mapping, soil regeneration, multimedia storytelling, and more.
As part of the multimedia track, students worked alongside artist and mentor Nikila Badua (Mama Wisdom) to co-design and paint their first public mural at Environmental Charter Middle School in Inglewood—transforming their learning into a vibrant expression of environmental justice and care for community.
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| Purpose-driven Partnerships
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WEA’s 20th Anniversary Gift Giveaway Series Begins
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As part of WEA’s 20th Anniversary campaign, we’ve launched a special Gift Giveaway Series on social media to spotlight inspiring businesses helping make women-led environmental solutions possible.
Thank you to these featured companies who have generously donated giveaway prizes: Santa Barbara Company, Abundance, Caitlyn Minimalist, KNESKO, Awe Inspired, Violette FR, EO, Swil Art, Ochre Objects, and SPELL.
Be sure to follow WEA on Instagram for a chance to enter and win giveaways throughout the year.
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MegaFood: A Lasting Partnership for a Healthier World
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WEA is deeply grateful for our long-standing partnership with MegaFood—a brand committed to supporting people and the planet.
Through this partnership, we've helped strengthen grassroots women's leadership, invested in regenerative food systems, and advanced community-driven solutions that protect ecosystems and support thriving communities. We're proud to continue this work together.
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| Our Global Alliance in Action
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- Congratulations to WEA Leader Mackenzie Feldman, named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for her leadership with Re:wild Your Campus! Mackenzie’s work supports students to eliminate toxic pesticides and transform school grounds into healthy, biodiverse spaces.
- At Impact Rising 2025, WEA Co-Founder/Co-Executive Director Amira Diamond joined partners and community leaders through Women Serve to celebrate women’s leadership, local collaboration, and collective care—highlighting what’s possible when shared vision turns into action.
- WEA Co-Founders/Co-Executive Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Jessica Diamond joined Holly Ziegel Ruxin for Montcalm’s DEVOTION 2025—a gathering reimagining how finance can serve life on Earth through values-aligned, women-led solutions.
- A women-led hub is reshaping climate justice discourse in Nigeria. Global Voices spotlights WISE Director and WEA’s Regional Lead Olanike Olugboji-Daramola for centering grassroots leadership in bold, community-rooted solutions.
- Through WEA’s Global Ethical Stocktake, frontline WEA leaders identified three powerful ethical touchstones illuminating a broader understanding of progress, responsibility, and what it will take to secure a thriving future.
- What did frontline women leaders name as the three ethical touchstones for climate action? Explore what we heard through the Global Ethical Stocktake in our Medium article.
- Ahead of COP30, WEA’s Co-Executive Director Kahea Pacheco and East Africa Regional Lead Rose Wamalwa joined a virtual dialogue hosted by COPx and Environment Next, spotlighting leadership models that bridge ecological restoration, climate justice, and local innovation.
- In The Practicality We Often Forget, WEA Leader Nadea Nabilla reflects on inclusive innovation, coastal community resilience, and why truly impactful technology starts with listening.
- How can we reimagine conservation and root it in care? Our new Medium blog explores how WEA Leaders are shifting the model of ecosystem stewardship.
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