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Kosovo's youngest environmental warriors meet environmental champion

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Organizations: UNMIK
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As the world's population recovers from the greatest health crisis of this age, the environment is also recovering - with this year's World Environment Day happening while Kosovo's youngest members of society breathe in some of the cleanest air they have ever experienced. To mark the occasion under this year's theme 'Time for Nature', UNMIK donated 271 copies of the book 'Uta and the Mountains’, which tells the story of Uta Ibrahimi, Kosovo's first woman to summit the world's highest peak Mt Everest, to three women and children’s shelters and five children’s NGOs. Ibrahimi, who is also a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals champion, was present at the donations, and shared her story with the young audiences, including 8-year-old Nuela, who recognized Uta as the “mountain girl”.

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