CYNESA Team Meets Iris Ho-Humane Society International; Together Forging Forward on Wildlife Conservation.
“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” – St. Francis of Assisi On the 27th of April we were very delighted to have welcomed Ms. Iris Ho,…
CYNESA Set For The 2nd United Nations Environment Assembly!
The world’s highest-level decision making body on the environment, will hold its second session in Nairobi, Kenya, 23rd to 27th May, under the overarching theme, “Delivering on the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) enjoys the universal membership of all 193…
Cardinal Turkson: Intervene in Nature with an Ethic of Care Rather Than a Mentality of Disrespect
The key to making mining an ethical industry, is to “intervene with an ethic of care rather than a mentality of disrespect, or even violence”, said Cardinal Turkson, Monday, in his key note speech, at the ‘Laudato Si’ Conference’, underway in Lusaka, Zambia. Cardinal Turkson, who is the President of the Pontifical…
Form 4 Loyola Student Writes Award Winning Poem on Youth For Sustainable Development Goals
“Dear fellow youth, it is good and a right thing to use our talents. Because, if we don’t use and embrace them, they will be taken from us”.
Shaping a Sustainable Future; An Encounter With Ban Ki-moon
On the 11th of March, I was one of the 3 students from Bonn’s United Nations University, selected to represent the UN in Germany at a meeting with the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The city of Bonn was celebrating 20 years of being the United Nations city of Germany, with…
CYNESA's Mission is to offer the platform through which young Catholics across Africa, respond to the twin challenges of Environmental Degradation and Climate Change, from the perspective of Catholic social teaching on care for creation, paying attention to the most vulnerable.