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Editorial
The management and staff of Yonge Nawe would like to send you a belated happy new year. We would also like to send our apologies for the absence of a newsletter in recent times. This is due to the fact that Yonge Nawe has been undergoing a restructuring exercise, which focused more on internal activities. We are, however, proud to announce that Yonge Nawe has emerged with a three year Capacity Building for Environmental Action Project after careful and logistical planning. This project hopes to see improved environmental action among Swaziland populace. So read on to find out more about this outstanding project that Yonge Nawe is working on! It is 10 years after the RIO
Earth Summit in 1992 when heads of state and government made commitments
to sustainable development but we are still confronted with serious environmental,
political, social and economic problems crisis for Africa and indeed the
World in general. The environmental crisis now threatening our future is
a result of the accelerated social devastation now gripping our region
and the world. Hunger, poverty and diseases are on the increase, unemployment,
inequality within and between nations has widen and social tensions are
on the rise. Similarly environmental degradation compounds to the impoverishment
of the African people. In this newsletter we highlight some of these problems
in Swaziland and encourage heads of states and civil society to address
these issues before and beyond the Johannesburg Summit in August 2002.
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