NASREEN AL-AMIN

NIGERIA, 28

Project: Jeji Restoration
Pronouns: She/Her

Nasreen Al-Amin works at the intersection of policy, climate media, and resilience building. She collaborates with indigenous people to exchange knowledge and ideas on innovative approaches to climate adaptation that are affordable, scalable, and accessible. Jeji Restoration is a tree-planting initiative that works closely with indigenous communities and people affected by war and environmental conflicts to restore degraded landscapes by planting trees as a means of livelihood development. 

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How does Jeji Restoration address systemic inequity and injustice? 

My work gives priority to displaced persons affected by war and/or environmental conflicts. My project aims to not only plant trees but restore the dignity and livelihoods of people whom our justice and governance system have discarded. We do so by paying and training climate migrants on sustainable landscape management. By doing so, they will have a stable source of food, income, and livelihood.

“The program design itself is unique in its purpose and goal, as it greatly considers sustainability of the initiative from adoption – where the primary goal is to restore degraded land, to beneficiary consideration where climate migrants gain economic value by working alongside us.”
Evan Wei-Haas