Caroline Gluck has been to several countries in the past few weeks to investigate the impact of changing weather patterns on poor communities. She sent this audiovisual report from Uganda.
I took the photos and recorded the sound for this feature on a trip to show a group of national and international journalists one of the most marginalised and under-developed areas of Uganda: Karamoja region in the north-east.
Daily life is increasingly becoming a struggle for people who had it hard enough already - whose crops are failing, whose livestock are now at increased risk of disease; and who find water sources more and more difficult to come by. Drought, which used to occur roughly once every five years, has hit the region successively over the past few years, leaving people feeling increasingly helpless.
It’s a similar picture in other countries I’ve been to, whether it’s people struggling to make a living from the land, or coastal communities threatened by severe storms, tidal surges and cyclones, it’s the poorest and most vulnerable who are the hardest hit and least able to protect themselves.
Climate change costs lives, homes and livelihoods. And it’s happening right now.
Oxfam and climate change
Tags: carolinegluck, climatechange, Conflict, drought, uganda
