Sahena, the voice of climate change

Read about climate change in the papers and you'll probably come across headlines of "severe flooding" or "extreme weather". Watch the latest report on the 6 o'clock news on global warming and it's likely you'll see pictures of melting ice caps or hear about sea level rises.

Behind the attention-grabbing headlines, there are the stories of people in poor countries who are feeling the effects of increasingly unpredictable weather.

Sahena Begum is one of these people.

From Bangladesh's Gaibandha district, Sahena is typical of many Bangladeshis - she's had to rebuild her home five times because of flooding.

Bangladesh has always had annual monsoons. But over recent years weather patterns have changed. The rains are much heavier and flooding is much less predictable.

But Sahena is fighting back. As the elected president of her village committee she's organising the women to be disaster aware. Teaching them how to raise the foundations of their homes and how to make portable clay ovens.

Last week, in the run up to International Women's Day, Sahena travelled to the UK to tell her story.

With Oxfam's support, she met with MPs at Westminster to explain the impact of climate change on the women in her village and how her women's group is helping her community to prepare for future flooding.

As the countries who have created the most emissions, rich countries and their governments have a responsibility to help make sure developing countries have the cash they need to adapt and, more importantly, to slow and then reverse the growth in greenhouse gas emissions.

Sahena was in the UK to remind the Government that they need to act now. You can support her, and other people affected by climate change around the world, by doing the same.