Freetown | 5th June 2022 | Vertex Media
Isha Johansen was amongst global icons who accepted FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s call to accept the Fifa Green Card Challenge today June 5th, marking the WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY celebration.
President of Senegal Macky Sall, supermodel Naomi Campbell, Brazilian football ace Pele, Fifa Ambassador Arsene Wenger, were amongst the big names who together with Isha Johansen took to rise to the challenge with Johansenโs message about encouraging low energy cooking pots for women in Africa proving to be very popular amongst Fifa social media subscribers around the world.
Fifa Council member and founder of Sierra Leone Premier League club FC Johansen represented President Infantino in Scotland at the COP26 Climate Change Summit in November 2021, to reiterate Fifaโs Commitment to climate change and to talk about the Fifa climate strategy. Fifa has committed to not only making the Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 Carbon Neutral, it has also pledged to reduce emissions by 50% in 2030 and reaching net zero by 2040.
In a viral video message published by Fifa, Isha raised the FIFA Green Card on environment preservation and she encouraged everyone to support the campaign.
Johansen has not only accepted Infantinoโs pledge verbally, within 24 hours the FC Johansen Foundation headed by director of Gender Affairs Former Miss Sierra Leone Aminata Adialin Bangura donated energy efficient and low emission cooking pots to women living in the deprived urban communities.
Johansen is quoted as having said
โThis gesture will hopefully educate communities of innovative technology that can reduce their costs and harmful impact on the environment.โ
Isha Johansen, Fifa Council Member
She extended the challenge to another energetic Sierra Leonean woman, Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyer.
Isha has been a strong campaigner for a clean and safe environment, leading awareness campaigns in poverty driven communities in her home country.
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