For years, beach mining has exposed the communities on South Tarawa in Kiribati to even greater risk of rising sea levels and the impacts of climate change.
In response, the Kiribati government has now come up with an innovative solution that it hopes will put an end to a practice that has undermined and threatened the country’s vulnerable coastline for decades.
The Pacific Youth Council (PYC) is a regional non-government organization based in Fiji.
Established in 1996, it acts as an umbrella body for National Youth Councils across the Pacific.
Let’s find out how the PYC is empowering the Pacific’s young generation to become active citizens and leaders in their local communities, nation and region.
