My Beautiful Nicaragua
Edelsin Linette Mendez (Nicaragua)
Twelve-year-old Edelsin Linette Mendez documents how climate change and the "La Roya" fungus are devastating her family’s coffee farm in the Nicaraguan highlands. Through her lens, she captures the labor-intensive reality of coffee production and the urgent economic toll of environmental shifts on her community. Her film is a call for global sustainability, highlighting the power of youth to confront the climate crisis and protect their future.
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