Expertise: Extractives Activist
Racheal Chagonja is a young Tanzanian student who is an environmental and peace activist. She founded the K-Project for Peace to oppose uranium mining and nuclear weapons as well as raising public awareness in Africa of the severe humanitarian threat uranium mining poses. In 2015 Racheal along with other activists climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro (hence K-Project) as a symbolic statement that the difficult climb towards a world free of nuclear weapons can be achieved by this generation.