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Women Weaving Memory and Plotting Life in Northern Rocha, Uruguay

We arrived Saturday night in Chuy, a border town in the north of the Rocha department that borders Brazil, where we were planning to sleep before heading out early to the rural area where the gathering would take place. We were tired—it had been a drive of just over five hours, most of it at […]

Meeting the Hum Pampa and Its Interwoven Body-Territories

Photos by Val Rodlez The Hum Pampa community is a group of women descended from the Indigenous Charrúa nation (which once inhabited what is now Uruguay, as well as parts of western Argentina and southern Brazil). It is a decentralized collective spread across the country, with members living in various towns and departments, primarily in […]

Cultivating Agroecological Farming in Northeast India

Samir Bordoloi, an ORA India 2023 Fellow, is at the forefront of agroecological farming in Northeast India. He is dedicated to co-creating a thriving farming community and promoting a happy and healthy lifestyle through environmentally friendly practices. His work emphasizes providing nourishing, and healing food while maintaining a deep respect for nature. With a young […]

From Crisis to Resilience

This video was produced by Emery Ndayizeye, an Omega Resilience Awards (ORA) 2024 Africa Fellow. In 2017, Mbouyasse Magalie, had to leave her home country, the Central African Republic, after a traumatic experience. While travelling in the country, she was attacked by highway robbers and by chance she managed to escape. Her sister, who was […]

Who are ORA Fellows?

Nnimmo Bassey, founder of health of Mother Earth Foundation, describes the unique cohort of people who create the ORA Africa Fellow. program.

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