Ideas Remaking the World

Mirei Endara de Heras, IWF Panama

Idea: Stop Trashing the Oceans
 
Plastic pollution is one of three global environmental crises, alongside climate change and biodiversity loss. As a global challenge, marine plastic pollution has affected 90% of marine species, and at this rate there will be more plastic than fish by 2050. Mirei will present a solution that has led to the collection of over 500 tons of plastic waste — a clean energy trash trapping and collection device called Wanda (Wheel and Action).

Beth Hedva, IWF Canada

Idea: Global Preparedness for Mass Trauma Recovery
 
After environmental and military crises, Beth Hedva believes that emotional and psychological support for people trapped in rapidly debilitating fear, loss and chaos needs to be as embedded for immediate activation as CPR is for medical response. She will present a 5-step integrative recovery protocol for emotional healing and culturally sensitive community renewal for mass trauma recovery.

Maribel  Concepción Méndez de Lara, IWF Mexico

Idea: Access to Agrarian Justice for Women Who Live in Remote Areas

Many women from rural areas are expected to travel long distances to larger cities to seek justice. Maribel will present how agrarian courts solve this problem and make the exercise of the right to access justice and to effective judicial protection possible for people living in remote areas.