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Helena Gualinga: Who is the young voice against climate change?

Posted On 13 Dec 2019

The Climate Summit ( COP 25 ) held in Madrid since last December 2 , was attended by a young Ecuadorian who, with a vindictive speech in search of improvements for the planet Earth, managed to attract the eyes of international media, which They did not delay in echoing their message.

Helena Gualinga: Who is the young voice against climate change?

Her name is Helena Siren Gualinga , an Amazonian teenager who with 17 years of age maintains a long career as an activist. The young woman belongs to the Sarayaku indigenous community of Pastaza province, but has also lived in the Finnish towns of Pargas and Turku .

This is due to the origin of his father, Anders Siren , a Finnish professor in the Department of Geography and Geology at the University of Turku , who married Noemí Gualinga , mother of Helena and former president of the Kiwcha Women’s Association .

Helena, who has been one of the voices of the collective ‘ youth against climate change ‘, studies at the Turku Cathedral School and speaks Spanish, English, Swedish, Kiwcha and a little Finnish, according to Yle , a public medium from Finland

His story is preceded by women who have fought for the right to protect the environment, such as his aunt Patricia Gualinga or his great-aunt Cristina Gualinga . Sample of his pride towards this heritage, he reflects it in his social networks where on Instagram , for example, he describes himself as ‘daughter of the first uprising’.

“Governments continue to concession our territories without our consent to the extractive industries that are creating climate change . This should be criminal ”, was one of the opinions expressed by Gualinga and that silence to the public of COP25 during its realization in the Spanish capital.

https://www.expreso.ec/actualidad/helena-gualinga-viene-joven-voz-cambio-climatico-1300.html

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