Hub Cymru Africa

04/06/2026

🌍🌈 Voices of Pride: Community Building and Activism in Africa

Across Africa, LGBTQ+ activists and communities are creating safe community spaces, challenging discrimination and oppression, and building movements for change. Their stories are powerful reminders of the importance of solidarity, resilience and hope.

In our latest blog marking Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, we take a look at our Voices of Pride event earlier in the year which explored how community-building and activism are shaping lives and advancing LGBTQ+ rights across .

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LGBTQ+ people across Africa are facing worsening conditions, driven by the legacies of colonial-era laws and a growing rollback of hard-won rights. Hostile legislation and homophobic discourse, fuelled in part by the far-right in the West, are making life harder for LGBTQ+ communities across the con...

01/06/2026

Pride Month is celebrated each year in the month of June to honour the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in the United States of America.

It’s about people coming together in love and friendship, to show how far lgbtq+ rights have come, even if in some places there’s still some work to be done.

Pride month is about teaching inclusion, tolerance and education in pride history, and continuing to move forward in equality.

It calls for people to remember how damaging homophobia was and still is.

It’s all about being proud of who you are no matter who you love.

14/05/2026

🌳 Connecting Wales and Kenya through community-led climate action

Treeflights, based in Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion, has been working with the Boré Green Umbrella community self-help group in Kenya for over 18 years, supported by the Wales and Africa Programme for more than 15 of those years.

Why it matters:
- Wales was the first country to industrialise the project, giving it a unique responsibility to address the climate harm caused by emissions
- Communities in Boré, southern Kenya, are experiencing severe desertification and climate impacts
- Tropical trees grow up to 10 times faster than in temperate regions, making Kenya one of the most effective places on earth for carbon drawdown

Through this partnership:
🌳 7.7 million trees planted, with capacity to grow 2.2 million annually
👩‍🌾 5,750 farmers supplied with trees (more than two-thirds of them being women)
🏫 200 schools supplied with trees and 7 classrooms built
♻️ Around 1 million household items diverted from landfill in Wales through Climate Shops
👐 150 volunteer roles created and 100+ exchange visits between Wales and Kenya facilitated

The Climate Shops are at the heart of the model, helping people in Wales understand the links between everyday consumption and global climate responsibility, while funding community-led tree planting in Kenya.

🔗 Want to build a partnership like this? Get support from Hub Cymru Africa: hubcymruafrica.wales/get-support
🗺️ Or explore our existing partnerships: hubcymruafrica.wales/community-map

14/05/2026

🌳 Cysylltu Cymru a Kenya drwy weithredu ar yr hinsawdd dan arweiniad y gymuned

Mae Treeflights, wedi'i leoli yn Sir Gaerfyrddin a Cheredigion, wedi bod yn gweithio gyda’r grŵp cymorth cymunedol ‘Boré Green Umbrella’ yn Kenya am dros 18 mlynedd, gyda chefnogaeth wrth y Rhaglen Cymru ac Affrica am fwy na 15 o'r blynyddoedd hynny.

Pam mae'n bwysig:
- Cymru oedd y wlad gyntaf i ddiwydianeiddio’r prosiect, gan roi cyfrifoldeb unigryw iddi i fynd i'r afael â niwed hinsawdd
- Mae cymunedau yn Boré, de Kenya, yn profi datgoedwigo difrifol ac effeithiau hinsawdd na wnaethant fawr ddim i'w hachosi
- Mae coed trofannol yn tyfu hyd at 10 gwaith yn gyflymach nag mewn rhanbarthau tymherus

Drwy'r bartneriaeth hon:
🌳 7.7 miliwn o goed wedi'u plannu, gyda’r gallu i dyfu 2.2 miliwn yn flynyddol
👩‍🌾 5,750 o ffermwyr wedi'u cyflenwi gyda choed (gyda dros ddwy ran o dair ohonynt yn fenywod)
🏫 200 o ysgolion wedi'u cyflenwi â choed a 7 ystafell ddosbarth wedi'u hadeiladu
♻️ Tua 1 miliwn o eitemau cartref wedi'u datgyfeirio o safleoedd tirlenwi yng Nghymru drwy’r Siopau Hinsawdd
👐 150 o rolau gwirfoddoli wedi'u greu a dros 100 o ymweliadau cyfnewid rhwng Cymru a Kenya wedi'u hwyluso

🔗 Eisiau adeiladu partneriaeth fel hyn? Ewch i: hubcymruafrica.cymru/cael-cefnogaeth
🗺️ Neu archwiliwch ein partneriaethau hyd yn hyn: hubcymruafrica.cymru/map-gymuned

11/05/2026

Rydym yn recriwtio ar gyfer ddwy rôl ddiddorol i gefnogi a chryfhau’r sector undod byd-eang Cymru.

Rydym yn disgwyl am Reolwr Cymorth Datblygu ac Uwch Reolwr Cymorth Datblygu i helpu cynnal mentora, hyfforddiant a chryfhau capasiti ar gyfer sefydliadau a grwpiau cymunedol ar draws Cymru ac Affrica. Mae’r ddwy swydd hyblyg yn rhoi’r cyfle i gefnogi gwaith partneriaethau, gwrth-hiliaeth ac undod byd-eang ar draws Cymru.

Dyddiad cau yw Dydd Sul 31 Mai 2026.

Dysgwch fwy a cheisio yma: https://hubcymruafrica.cymru/cyfleoedd

11/05/2026

We’re recruiting for two exciting new roles to support and strengthen Wales’ international solidarity sector.

We are looking for a Development Support Manager and a Senior Development Support Manager to help deliver mentoring, training and capacity-building activities for organisations and community groups working across Wales and Africa. Both flexible roles offer the opportunity to support partnership working, anti-racist practice and global solidarity across Wales.

Applications close on Sunday 31 May 2026.

Find out more and apply here: https://hubcymruafrica.wales/opportunities

05/05/2026

At our International Women's Day celebration, we heard from Aileen Burmeister, Head of Fair Trade Wales - Cymru Masnach Deg, on what 2026 holds for women in fair trade.

Women make up a significant proportion of farmers within the fair trade movement, yet many face persistent barriers around land ownership, access to sales and markets, and financial literacy. These are not small challenges. They are structural inequalities that limit what women can earn, own and decide for themselves.

This year, the United Nations has designated 2026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer, recognising the vital role women play in agrifood systems and the urgent need to address the obstacles they face.

Fair Trade Wales will be doing more this year to raise awareness and support women farmers, follow them to keep up with their work🌍

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Yn ystod ein dathliad Diwrnod Rhyngwladol y Menywod, fe glywsom wrth Aileen Burmeister, Pennaeth Cymru Masnach Deg, ar yr hyn sydd gan 2026 i gynnig menywod ym masnach deg.

Mae menywod yn ffurfio cyfran sylweddol o ffermwyr o fewn y mudiad masnach deg, ond mae llawer yn wynebu rhwystrau parhaus o ran perchnogaeth tir, mynediad at farchnadoedd a llythrennedd a***nnol. Eleni, mae'r Cenhedloedd Unedig wedi dynodi 2026 yn Flwyddyn Ryngwladol y Ffermwraig, gan gydnabod y rôl hanfodol y mae menywod yn chwarae mewn systemau bwyd-amaeth.

Bydd Cymru Masnach Deg yn gwneud mwy eleni i godi ymwybyddiaeth a chefnogi ffermwyr benywaidd. Dilynwch nhw i gadw lan gyda’r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf am eu gwaith🌍

03/05/2026

🌍 Global Solidarity Roadshow - Cardiff
📅 Saturday 9 May, 1:30 - 4:30pm
📍 Grange Pavilion, Grange Gardens, Cardiff, CF11 7LJ

Join Hub Cymru Africa for an afternoon of community networking and shared learning, open to anyone working in or interested in global solidarity and international development.

The afternoon will include time to share experiences from your projects, themed group discussions, a consultation on the future of the Wales-Africa sector, and a focus on fundraising and sustainability.

With a new Welsh Government being formed following the Senedd elections, this is a timely moment to come together and help shape what comes next for Hub Cymru Africa and the Wales and Africa Programme in 2027 and beyond.

This event is for African diaspora groups, Fair Trade campaigners, health partnerships, and anyone with experience or interest in global solidarity work.

Refreshments will be provided.

🔗 Register:

Join us in Cardiff to connect with your peers, share experiences and learning from your projects, and contribute your ideas to the future of Hub Cymru Africa and the Welsh Government’s Wales Africa Programme in 2027 and beyond.

03/05/2026

🌍 Sioe Deithiol Undod Byd-eang - Caerdydd
📅 Dydd Sadwrn 9 Mai, 1:30 - 4:30yp
📍 Pafiliwn Grange, Gerddi Grange, Caerdydd, CF11 7LJ

Ymunwch â Hub Cymru Africa am brynhawn o rwydweithio cymunedol a dysgu cyfrannol, yn agored i unrhyw un sy'n gweithio yn neu gyda diddordeb mewn undod byd-eang a datblygiad rhyngwladol.

Bydd y prynhawn yn cynnwys amser i rannu profiadau o'ch prosiectau, trafodaethau grŵp thematig, ymgynghoriad ar ddyfodol y sector Cymru-Affrica, a ffocws ar godi a***n a chynaliadwyedd.

Gyda Llywodraeth Cymru newydd yn cael ei ffurfio ar ôl etholiadau'r Senedd, dyma adeg amserol i ddod ynghyd, a helpu i lunio'r hyn sydd nesaf ar gyfer Hub Cymru Africa a’r Rhaglen Cymru ac Affrica yn 2027 a’u ddyfodol.

Mae'r digwyddiad yma ar gyfer grwpiau diaspora Affricanaidd, ymgyrchwyr Masnach Deg, partneriaethau iechyd, ac unrhyw un sydd â phrofiad neu ddiddordeb mewn gwaith undod byd-eang.

Byddwn yn darparu lluniaeth.

🔗 Cofrestrwch:

Ymunwch â ni yng Nghaerdydd i gysylltu â’ch cydweithwyr, rhannu profiadau a’r pethau rydych chi’n eu dysgu o’ch prosiectau, a chyfrannu eich syniadau at ddyfodol Hub Cymru Africa a Rhaglen Cymru Affrica Llywodraeth Cymru yn 2027 ac yn y dyfodol.