Climate Change Hurts Women Worst

An Educational Simulation about the effect of Climate Change on Women in the Global South

This website will enable a CRS Ambassador chapter or a social justice class or group to create a simulation to educate participants about the effects of Climate Change on women in the developing world.

We fully realize it is impossible for us to comprehend the reality women in low-income countries face. However, we feel the need to engage participants in what people around the world must undergo. And so we created a simulation to give a small sense of their reality. In a 25-minute simulation, participants experience:

• How Climate Change leads to increased hunger;
• How Climate Change harms farming, so that families have less money and food and sink deeper into poverty;
• The choices women must make a choice as climate change gets worse: stay and hope that things get better or take their chances by migrating.
• Options for reflection, through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching, on the impact of Climate Change on women in the Global South;
• An opportunity to engage in advocacy.

The three headings below give essential background on the issues (LEARN), instructions on how to set up the simulation (PLAN), and resources for reflection, prayer, and advocacy (REFLECT & ADVOCATE).

This simulation was created by Cabrini University students in Fall 2022. It is updated as needed.

Photos and videos

Photos, videos, and diagrams show how Cabrini students arranged and staged the sections of the simulation.

OTHER CABRINI-PRODUCED SIMULATIONS

This is one of a series of simulations created by students at Cabrini University about important issues of global justice.

• Refugees Seeking Safety (Unaccompanied Minors seeking asylum)
• We Did Nothing Wrong (Syrian Refugees)
• The Power of your Purchase (Slavery and Forced Labor)
• Path out of Hunger (Global Hunger)
• Climate Change Hurts Women Worst

Now please go to the LEARN page.

Here’s a video of the simulation.