CARE France is an association that has been fighting poverty and inequality around the world for 80 years.
It is interested in the correlation between climate change and gender.
“Climate change is sexist” because it disproportionately impacts women and girls around the world. It is they who are taken out of school to fetch water from ever further away during droughts. They who are forced into marriage so there is one less mouth to feed. They who sacrifice themselves when food runs short because harvests have been destroyed. They who also experience an increase in domestic violence during heatwaves.
But women and girls are also the champions of the adaptation effort in their communities. Agroecology, education, health programmes, economic empowerment… women and girls are actors of the solutions.
Shrimp caught in the mangrove are sold at market by an intermediary, as women are forbidden to trade there. Bangladesh, Ruhita. July 2026. ; Crédits : Agnès Dherbeys/MYOP Café along a river between Akroum and Wadi Khaled, once a major water source. “I remember the moment the local spring dried up. It was our main water supply; everyone was terrified.” Huda al Mohamad, Lebanon, Akkar district, August 2026. ; Crédits : Chloé Sharrock/MYOP Josselyn Vega Rojas is an indigenous Kichwa Panzaleo woman, farmer and mother of two children. Ecuador, Cotopaxi Province. August 2026. ; Crédits : Adrienne Surprenant/MYOP Memory Kassim takes part in a huge effort to restore soil moisture and fertility by planting trees. Malawi, Katuli region. July 2026. ; Crédits : Laurence Geai/MYOP
As part of this, Agnès Dherbeys, Chloé Sharrock, Adrienne Surprenant and Laurence Geai, four women photographers from the MYOP agency committed to this gender and climate nexus, document the lives of four of these women, climate heroines, in Bangladesh, Lebanon, Ecuador and Malawi.
Their context (drought, floods, water scarcity, El Niño, etc.), their family and professional lives, and their place as community leaders: these in-depth, sensitive and human reports show us the strength and transformative power of women in the face of climate change.