20/08/2026
After years of walking past the same oil-polluted rivers, thinning farmland, deepening erosion and abandoned oil wells, without the means to stop the damage or hold those responsible to account, young people in the oil-affected communities of Akwa Ibom are beginning to see that it does not have to remain this way.
Through the Youth as Community Rights Defenders (YCRD) project, the distant idea of justice is becoming an immediate question: who gets to decide what happens to the land that feeds them, and how young people can take part in those decisions
The future is no longer something that will simply happen to them. It is becoming something they can change.
And the work is far from over. YCRD Phase Two is coming.
