Climate Action
5th Annual Misean Cara Climate Action Awards
2024 Climate Action Awards
In 2024, Misean Cara is pleased to celebrate the 5th year of our Annual Climate Action Awards, in recognition of our members’ initiatives to address climate change in the communities where they work.
The Misean Cara Climate Action Awards were launched in 2020 to celebrate these projects and inspire others like them. They are presented to people and projects whose innovation and commitment is reducing the impact of climate change on communities in the developing world.
Continue below to read about this year's winning projects.
Second Place
Viatores Christi
Justice and Peace Commission (JPC), Uganda
First Place
Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
Households in Distress (HID) Programme, Zambia
Third Place
Augustinian Fathers with Augustinian Sisters
Biodiversity and Agriculture Programme for Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
2024 Climate Action Awards Runners-Up
We had a record 22 nominations from our members for this year's Climate Action Awards. Misean Cara commends the work being done by ALL of the nominated projects listed below and the dedicated teams and communities hard at work taking action to Care for our Common Home.
- Augustinian Fathers – Embu County, Kenya (Sustainable Livelihoods & Climate Change Adaptation)
- Edmund Rice Development – Phillipines (Sama-Bajau Mangroves Project)
- Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa – Zambia (St Francis CICP) & Uganda (Fr. Placid)
- IBVM Loreto – India (Light & Life to the Sundarbans) & Kenya (Climate Action Project – Mathare Slum)
- Little Sisters of the Assumption – Brazil (Umburanas)
- Marist Brothers – Mexico (Mayan communities)
- Medical Missionaries of Mary – Nigeria (Mary Martin PHC)
- Mill Hill Missionaries – Kenya (Women and Youth Empowerment)
- Poor Servants of the Mother of God – Kenya (Sustainable Agriculture)
- Presentation Brothers – Ghana (Earth Clubs in Schools)
- Saint Patrick’s Missionary Society – Malawi (Plastics Waste Management)
- Salesians of Don Bosco Ireland – Kenya (Green Energy) & Zambia (Solar Skills Training)
- Salesian Sisters – India (Sustainable Livelihoods for Tribal Women) & Lesotho (Green Vocational Training)
- Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary – Uganda (Sustainable Agriculture)
- Sisters of Saint Joseph of Cluny – Ghana (St Joseph School Biodigester)