This is an interview by Claire Greensfeld, Senior Advisor on Climate and Energy at WECF, with Olga Djanaeva, from Kyrgyzstan. She is co-founder and director of the organization ALGA, which means “Moving Forward, Being Ahead” which she helped found when women from her village got together and decided to create something so they could share their own problems and improve each other’s lives. ALGA works on Sustainable Livelihoods and has succeeded in securing land rights for women and starting a programme for rural women to get loans for their small enterprises.
