Anthropology project highly commended at United Nations Gold Star Awards

26.07.2012

The Community Carbon Link, a reforestation initiative, partly focused by Luci Attala, Anthropology lecturer from the School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology has been highly commended at the United Nations Gold Star Awards.

Ru Hartwell, Director of the CCL project, Luci Attala, Anthropology Lecturer at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and her son, Jane Davidson, Director of Inspire at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and Graham Benfield, WCVA Chief Executive

The prize, supported by the Welsh Government and the WCVA, under the Wales Africa Community Links programme was awarded for the development work it has achieved in Kenya.

The project links Lampeter’s community and a tribal community of Giriama people in Boré, Kenya so as to assist the development of alternative sustainable livelihood strategies.

Commenting on the project, Lucy said:

“It is only from the generous support of people in Lampeter that this project can run. This year, the project received money from the extraordinarily energetic ‘Rooting for Change’ campaign, organised by Trinity Saint David Humanities students Abi Carrington and Colin Thurston, and in association with the Faculty of Humanities, the local council, some local businesses and also the primary school – all of which has made a genuine difference to the lives of the people in Boré.

“We hope that our Anthropology students will be able to travel to Kenya to help with this project in the near future.”

Note to Editor

Rooting for Change campaign
Community Carbon Link is a unique initiative that connects Lampeter and West Wales with Bore in eastern Kenya through the medium of carbon. CCL is one of the several partnership projects between communities in Wales and Africa have started to help transform lives on both continents by working towards Millennium Development Goal 7, Environmental Sustainability.
CCL is a unique community link which encourages ordinary people, businesses and individuals in Lampeter to gradually reduce their footprint by sponsoring tree planting with the partner community in Kenya.
Today, Lampeter is the first town in Wales to have its own Community Carbon Reserve in Kenya as has taken the responsibility as a community for its share in creating climate change.

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