Gbujie Daniel is the EduCeleb of the Week. He is a Climate Reality Project fellow, and founder of Team 54 Project. This multiple international Award-winning Eco-Activist, writer, researchers, was a Representative Delegate to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (COPs) and Pavarti.org global brand Ambassador for MAPS. Gbujie Daniel is the Founder of Team 54 Project, a not-for-profit group of passionate climate change advocates from 169 nations that raises awareness about the impact of climate change and the need to take climate actions especially by ordinary citizens of nations from the continent of Africa, Small Island Development State (SIDS) in the Pacific and Asia that are greatly affected and are vulnerable. He has been an exceptional student right from his days in school. This has led to him winning a lot of international education awards within and outside Nigeria. His renewed passion for the environment and all of Mother Nature’s resources on earth stands him out among many. He is seen as one of the leading African advocates on climate action advocacy by an international environmental organization like Climate Reality Project owed by Nobel laureate winner, Mr. Al Gore, and Parvati.org. The Climate Reality Project leadership has endorsed Gbujie’s tremendous efforts in the struggle for a better and safer Earth. Parvati.org is a not-for-profit Canadian organization that fights to stop commercial exploitation and raise awareness about the impact of climate change in the Arctic region. He was recently appointed a brand Ambassador for Parvati.org and has been raising awareness about the international organization initiative called the Marine Arctic Peace Sanctuary (MAPS), campaigns to declared the Arctic zone a marine protected area, that should be free from oil drilling, military seismic testing, and all other commercial exploitation. Hence, his support and acceptance of the position as the organization MAPS- Ambassador making him an African face of the organization is not out of place. Gbujie, who hails from Imo State, Southeast Nigeria believes in the proper education of Africans through identifying the causes of crises and proffering solutions to address the challenges. Climate change plays a role in the conflict as the northern region is experiencing one of the worse drought periods with most of their livestock at the point of death. Northerners migrate southwards in due to search for food for the animals. In the process, these animals destroy farmlands in the south. The livestock destroy years of farming done by the southern farmers, who watch as their farm produce are ravished by the arms invading herdsmen who purchase war-like weapons to protect their means of livelihood. This has led to deaths of over 10,000 persons and has left about 2 million persons internally displaced in the country. These are few of the events that led him to join the climate movement. “It is my belief, that I was born for something much bigger, it has always been my purpose to see that humans especially Africans can see the better picture which is the sustainable green future,” he said. Subsequently, his wish came true by the first week of March 2017, Gbujie was part of the few Africans invited to participate in the prestigious Climate Reality Project Leadership Training program in Denver, Colorado. “I believe strongly that the training catapulted my presence into the climate advocacy to the world,” he said. “It is not a daily occurrence to see a young African meet and discuss privately with one of the greatest global environmental advocate, a one-time Nobel laureate Winner and Ex-Vice-President of United State of America,” he said. “My purpose in the movement was validated when I met with His Excellency, Mr. Al Gore, the 8 minutes discussion positioned my thought process to take climate actions as a renewable resource to my people and to anyone who cares about the Earth,” he said. I knew I had to educate others and inspire young minds to live better. The new friendship he forged with other climate reality project leaders led to great partnership and collaboration that allowed him to bring more people from Africa and another part of the world for the subsequent climate reality project training in the US. Gbujie has carried out over “591 Acts of Leadership” across the globe with a target goal of 1000 before the end of the year. Following, another training he attended in Seattle, Washington, he returned to Nigeria to form the first All-female farmers/gardeners Society in his ancestral home in Akabor Mbaise, Nigeria. A region constantly marginalized by the government with little development.
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