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In aiming to support specifically black mothers, Nyandoro wants to call attention to the issue of entrenched, systemic poverty in communities Jackson, where 80% of the population is black, and around 30% lives below the poverty line how deliberate, focused financing can help alleviate some of the associated pressures.[Source Image: wacomka/iStock]Through her work with Springboard, a five year old nonprofit that builds out resident driven support systems for people in affordable housing, Nyandoro has carried out extensive conversations with people living in poverty. But even though Springboard effectively connects low income residents with community resources and opportunities, began to see a disconnect between the work that our organization was doing and the ability of families to lift themselves out of poverty, Nyandoro says. What was standing in their way, she heard over and over from residents especially women a lack of cash.

The 25 megawatt plant began operating in March last year, despite villagers’ concerns about its effects on their health, its proximity to a local school, and sharing water from a canal that they used for fishing and their rubber and rice crops.Before long, villagers noticed a foul smell and waste such as fly ash being dumped. Some residents complained of skin rashes, and many could not get as much water from the canal.”Our main concerns are the impacts on our health, and on the land and water but our concerns were not addressed in a satisfactory manner,” said Lamoh, 58, a fourth generation resident and community leader.”We know renewable energy is good, but we were not consulted on the plant, and we do not benefit from it,” he said, gesturing to the plant that is off a highway, about a mile from his home.Gulf Chana Green Co., a subsidiary of Thai based Gulf Energy Development Co. That operates the plant, did a “thorough” environmental and social impact assessment, a spokeswoman told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.Emissions are monitored, waste is securely stored, and water usage is minimised to limit “any potential impacts on the environment or local community,” and information on emissions and other environmental aspects is publicly disclosed, she said.Worldwide, the rush to adopt renewable energy to reduce carbon emissions is hurting rural and indigenous communities disproportionately, with their lands taken for solar, wind, bioenergy and hydropower projects, human rights groups say.While renewable energy has a large land footprint, the projects receive government incentives and less scrutiny than fossil fuel projects such as coal, and few companies have policies to avoid or minimise human rights abuses.”The transition to clean energy is necessary.

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