Tech girls and climate action

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About this Podcast: This podcast, Climate Action - Child Protection, is produced by SOS Children's Villages weltweit and explores various dimensions of the connection between the climate crisis and children and youth rights. Similar to the first season, climate journalist Leonie Fößel and researcher Jakob Nehls host impressive guests from around the world to discuss a specific aspect of this topic. On this journey, the listener will gain sensitivity to the urgency of action as well as expertise in selected fields. The podcast is produced in English, although almost exclusively non-native speakers are featured. This is intended to make it accessible to a broad international audience. While all episodes are publicly available, the podcast primarily targets the SOS community - people who are in some way connected to the organization, whether as employees, donors, or (former) residents of SOS childrens’s villages.

About this episode: In this episode, for the first time, we are joined live by another person in the recording studio: Lachana Hada from Nepal is a Co-Founder of Impacters, an initiative that supports youth – especially girls and women – in tech jobs. One of the projects is called Saathi, the project’s objective is to help farmers in Nepal who face climate-induced challenges in agriculture. Her story shows that social change like the empowerment of girls and women can go hand in hand with climate action.

Guests: Lachana Hada was supported in her education in engineering by SOS-Children's Villages and studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Today, she lives and works in Munich, Germany. She founded the initiative Impacters, which supports youth to innovate in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) while also aiming to guide them in their personal growth.