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Annelie Dehmel
Laureate
Centro Ecológico Juvenil, Cajamarca, Uyuni K’asa
Social youth education and planting trees in the bolivian andes
Bolivia
Education / Communications, Social Engagement, Biodiversity / Nature Conservation
Trophée de femmes, 2015
Asamblea de Derechos Humanos, Sucre Bolivia / Bundesverdienstkreuz 2015
Annelie Dehmel has been involved in social, cultural and environmental projects in Bolivia for more than 30 years, a high valley in the Andes near Sucre was reforested with the help of Bolivian youth, and classes are taught weekly in the Cajamarca youth center (www.cej-bolivia.org). The surrounding village communities are included, 450 hectares of forest have been created, flora and fauna have made the mountainous desert a green paradise, water, air, climate and fertile soil has been improved.