15 December: Robert Glasser, CARE International Secretary General, spoke Tuesday at Humanitarian Day, which was organised by a coalition of humanitarian organizations - including CARE , the United National Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), and the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement.

The day also highlighted that women and children in developing countries already spend hours every day fetching water. Climate change means that they will have to walk even further as wells dry up. To draw attention to this fact, the opening was followed by a youth solidarity event where Danish school girls carried carry water containers. They walked from Kongens Nytorv all the way to the Bella Centre - about 6 kilometres. Danish-Zambian singer Karen Mukupa sent the girls offwith a song.

Humanitarian Day was organised because agencies and non-government organizations (NGOs) are already seeing increased food insecurity, migration and displacement, public health threats and other consequences of climate change. We are deeply concerned with how we can urgently help the most vulnerable adapt to their changing reality. We must look beyond Copenhagen to the critical measures, commitments and resources needed now to help national governments help their people adapt - particularly through preparedness and disaster risk reduction.

Dec. 15 - David Sumbo, CARE Ghana Program Coordinator for Agriculture and Food Security, talks about how he is at COP to ensure the right to food security and sustainable forestry for some of Ghana's poorest people

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