Hunting Park PA is Taking Action

Dear <<First Name>>,

The climate crisis here in North America and throughout the world is causing unprecedented flooding and droughts. Justice requires immediate action from people of faith. But what does that look like? How can churches truly make an impact? At the Climate Witness Project, we’ve shown the impact of climate change in Kenya and Bangladesh, and we want to empower communities of faith to respond with both compassion and practical activism in their local contexts. That’s the driving force behind the launch of a unique storytelling project - “Hunting Park”.

In Philadelphia, the Hunting Park neighborhood is facing multiple challenges caused by climate change and environmental injustice, including extreme summer heat, low levels of tree canopy cover and hazardous health conditions. Yet in the midst of this community’s struggles, people of faith have stepped forward to take hopeful action, including neighborhood organizing, clean energy production, vocational training and community gardens. The practical activism being done in Hunting Park provides a framework for churches and non-profits around the United States to address environmental injustice in their own communities.

The Hunting Park Story project is designed to provide both inspiration and practical steps for churches and believers in North America to advocate for local government policy change, to launch community based initiatives, and to fight the effects of climate change in vulnerable neighborhoods. With your help we’d like to produce a video-storytelling series and an interactive website for this project. We’re excited that actress and director Sarah Drew (Grey’s Anatomy, Mom’s Night Out) has agreed to narrate the series.

Your help is vital! We need to raise $9,000 to make this project happen. If you can make a donation of any amount it will help us pay for the production and development of this faith-based climate activism series. Let’s share the message of hope that Christians CAN make a difference for environmental justice in their communities.