Anabela Lemos Receives Mozambique’s National Environmental Prize

Greengrants congratulates Anabela Lemos, Southern Africa Advisory Board member and winner of Mozambique’s first National Environmental Prize.

Lemos, of Justiça Ambiental, helped found one of the first environmental groups in Mozambique. In 1998, when she and her sister learned of a project to incinerate banned pesticides in unsafe cement kilns, they worked together with community members to campaign against the project. From this successful struggle, the nonprofit Livaningo, was born. She worked with Livaningo as a volunteer from 1998 to 2001, and served as deputy director from 2001 to 2004. Justiça Ambiental, which she founded in March 2004, works on issues of water quality, dam monitoring, environmental policy, renewable energy, pollution, and climate change.

Accepting the award, she said, “We cannot have peace, the eradication of poverty or sustainable development without taking the environment into consideration as the base of everything.”

Global Greengrants Fund

Global Greengrants Fund believes solutions to environmental harm and social injustice come from people whose lives are most impacted. Every day, our global network of people on the frontlines and donors comes together to support communities to protect their ways of life and our planet. Because when local people have a say in the health of their food, water, and resources, they are forces for change.

Privacy notice: our site uses cookies for analytics, tracking, and site improvement purposes. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our use of cookies. For more information, see our privacy policy.

The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible. If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this.

Close