Grantee Profile

Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organisation (MCEJO) is a community-based organisation located near KwaMbonambi in KwaZulu-Natal and founded in 2015. MCEJO’s objectives are to promote sustainable projects that will benefit women, the youth, and the elderly, and to uphold all community interests such as improving quality of life and living in an environment that is not harmful to their communities and livelihoods. MCEJO also protects their community and the environment against open-cast mining. MCEJO received a grant to: a) build the knowledge of youth, women and elderly affected community members regarding climate change and the just transition; b) strengthen youth leadership in the community; c) raise awareness, improve security and protection for community activists under threat; and d) fight for justice for their leader Mam’ Fikile Ntshangase who was assassinated.