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Every morning, 12-year-old Ratana sets off from her home on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake by boat. She’s heading for a floating school supported by Save the Children – but she’s got a vital job to do before she gets there. As she rows she picks up friends along the way – and together they work to clear the rubbish that litters the lake.

It is children like Ratana and her friends that are this fishing community’s best hope of saving their lake and livelihood. It is her generation that is leading the fightback against climate change across the world.

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Established in 2022, Save the Children’s GREEN project is aiming to help more than 40,000 children and adults around the Tonle Sap Lake, including 8,089 fishing families.

Thanks to funding from Norton Rose Fulbright, the programme is helping families on the lake diversify their income away from fishing, training and funding families to start ‘green livelihoods’, such as making and selling non-polluting washing up liquid.

We’re developing innovative climate-smart health, sanitation and hygiene technologies, working in collaboration with local social enterprises. A household water-purification system made from clay and a waste-management system called the ‘floating pot’ are two of the projects nearing completion.

We’re collaborating with government ministries, local authorities, schools and teachers to improve children’s education. We’re training to teachers to teach Khmer and English to help children catch up on the learning they lost during the pandemic. We’ve also helped repair schools that have been damaged by storms and installed fans powered by solar panels to keep children cool during the dry season (which has become hotter due to climate change).

We’ve introduced eco lessons to the school curriculum where children learn about the environment and climate change, and participate in activities like collecting rubbish from the lake, growing floating gardens, and speaking with the local community about the importance of protecting the environment.