Colombia ,
Founder of Barranquilla+20. Co-Founder of "El Orinoco se adapta"
Xiomara founded Barranquilla+20 in 2012 to inspire citizens to work towards making their communities more sustainable. Since 2012 they have engaged more than 7000 children and youth in Barranquilla. Xiomara works with the local government to promote sustainable living and she hopes to affect polict change at the national level by helping to construct the first climate change public policy in Colombia. Xiomara also co-founded the project "El Orinoco se adapta" (Orinoco adapts) in order to promote a network of organizations and communities working to minimise and adapt to climate change in the orinoquia region using a gender based approach.
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