After restoring underused grounds of urban schools in Marrakech, GDF is expanding its efforts to rural schools in the foothills of the High Atlas mountains, where girls are learning about gardens, cultural heritage and environmental stewardship. We are focusing on Dar Taliba, a boarding house in the Ourika Valley that provides an opportunity for 120 teenage girls per year to continue their formal studies while acquiring knowledge about the traditional use of plants from their elders.

The Global Environments Network supports emerging changemakers by promoting peer-to-peer learning and communication skills training. Working from local to global scales, these leaders draw on superb academic backgrounds and inspiring field experiences to develop practical actions - often out of the public eye - that improve local livelihoods, resolve conflicts and restore environments. These inspiring efforts are benefiting their communities, their countries and the world as a whole.

The Amazonian Indigenous Peoples' Health and Wellbeing Initiative will address the unprecedented rise in malaria in Venezuela by facilitating purchase and transportation of mosquito nets impregnated with insecticide, essential medicines, and supplies to three remote Indigenous communities - Joti, Enepa and Piaroa - who have urgently requested these supplies to prevent further spread of malarial infection and catastrophic loss of life. They ask for your aid in their own words in the video above.