{"id":12961,"date":"2022-11-09T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ruralwomen\/?p=12961"},"modified":"2022-11-14T09:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:02:18","slug":"meet-tiwonge-cop27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ruralwomen\/meet-tiwonge-cop27\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Tiwonge, our Malawian reporter on the ground at COP27"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m Tiwonge Ng’ona Kampondeni and I’m attending COP27 for Malawi, where I have been reporting in local media on the climate crisis for more than 15 years.<\/p>
I come from a rural community in northern Malawi, an area that has endured both droughts and serious and destructive flooding as a result of climate change. Such extreme and often unpredictable weather, which often claims lives, has become frighteningly more frequent in Malawi in recent years despite us contributing little to climate change.<\/p>
I\u2019m proud to be part of a Malawi delegation at COP27 that includes Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, President of Malawi. My trip to COP27 has been made possible thanks to support from the UN Development Programme and the Irish Embassy in Malawi.<\/p>