Founder and Executive Director of the Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa (CYNESA), Allen Ottaro is expected to be in Ghana later this month for the launch of the local chapter of the movement championing environmental sustainability in Africa.
The launch is expected to take place on September 30 in Accra.
Mr. Ottaro is also a founding member of the Global Membership Council, of the Laudato Si’ Movement.
Since 2015, he has served as a member of the climate change working group, under the Justice, Peace and Development Department, of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM). Mr.
Ottaro is passionate about engaging young people and faith communities in promoting environmental sustainability, with a strong social justice perspective.
About CYNESA
Inspired by St. Pope John Paul II’s 1990 message for World Day of Peace, in which he called for the need to upscale ecological awareness and to find fitting expression in concrete programs and initiatives, young Catholics from Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia, Rwanda, Ghana and South Africa among others drawn from and representing university chaplaincies and parish groups, joined up to respond to this invitation, and to set up the Africa-wide Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa (CYNESA) in January 2012.
CYNESA is a platform for all young Catholics in Africa, promoting responsible stewardship of the environment.
It seeks to establish and build relationships with like-minded partners, train young Catholics in advocacy on environmental sustainability, and link different initiatives on the continent.
It also encourages young people to act in their parishes, schools and within their youth movements by developing appropriate sustainable practices to conserve resources.
CYNESA Ghana is under the auspices of the Arrupe Jesuit Institute which has Rev. Fr. Kpanie Addy, SJ as director.
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