Photographers at female-run non-profit Lensational have explored the untold stories of women in Africa making a living from environmental preservation.
In Accra, Ghana, water is readily available but it is sold in individual plastic sachets which now litter the city's streets. Yaa Sule, 45, picks the sachets off the street and fills around five big bags a day with them, which she then sells to a recycling company to support her children and grandchildren.Image copyrightThe recycled sachets are then used to make raincoats and other products by a social enterprise company.Egusi melon seeds being sun-dried in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
has shown that the unique agricultural knowledge acquired by women in small-scale farming will be vital in helping promote biodiversity and limit food shortages caused by climate change.A Maasai woman carries out beading work in Amboseli, Kenya. Women in the area use the revenue from selling their beadwork to buy lights, which in turn ward off wildlife at night and make it less likely that the wildlife will be shot and killed.
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