REVOLUTIONIZING CLIMATE EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES AND AROUND THE WORLD
Klima is a non-profit organization that revolutionizes how we deliver climate education. Klima strives to deliver comprehensive climate education — regeneration, climate emotions processing, indigenized, and changemaking tools — in the shortest time with the least amount of resources, working in the context of the education crisis in the Philippines.
20K
Students Educated
10K
Self Learning Kits Distributed
4
Continents
7
Years of implementation
OUR PROJECTS
CURRICULUM. DELIVERY. POLICY.
After 10 years at a local school in the Philippines, Razel had the opportunity to study in one of the best schools in the country, where she met one of her best friends, Lauren Zhou. Upon entry, the jarring disparity in resources between International School Manila and her local school troubled her daily. A central ethos guided her: knowledge should never be bought.
Empowered by the education Razel and Lauren received at Yale University, Columbia University, and International School Manila, they endeavored to close the education gap. They hope to equip every Filipino child with the critical thinking and technical skills needed to restore their agency, as citizens of our democracy and as captains of their own fate.
Strongly influenced by Razel’s mother’s childhood stories as an internally displaced person, she co-founded Klima in 2018 to transform how Filipino children learn during crises.
Since 2018, Klima has provided over 10,000 self-learning kits for students who cannot attend school physically due to natural disasters, conflict, and the pandemic. These contain original workbooks encompassing the entire year’s curriculum and school supplies necessary to learn at home. Since its founding, Klima has been one of the thought leaders in the educational inequity space in the Philippines. It is one of the first to introduce contextualized curricula for each partner school and spearheads indigenizing knowledge for each subject. Klima has contextualized workbooks for indigenous community partners in the Philippines and three foreign partners schools.
Klima also launched KNOW (Knowledge Worldwide), a network of youth-led NGOs from all parts of the world, whose mission is to combat educational inequity. The network allowed us to share stories of educational inequity all over the world by reposting pieces from our respective publications; share our resources with one another (workbooks, apps, etc.), so organizations may achieve our objectives more easily (tutoring, outreach trips, etc.); and collaborate on projects, expedited by an existing network on educational inequity. Klima partners with organizations from Nigeria, Cameroon, the United States, and Hong Kong, among others.
OUR STORY
OUR BOARD
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RAPHAEL DIAZ, CLIMATE FINANCE EXPERT AT THE YALE UNIVERSITY JACKSON SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS
Rap gained more than a decade of experience across the private sector, government, and non-profits. Rap helped raise US$2.5 billion to fund various transition energy projects of an energy conglomerate, including battery energy storage systems and natural gas. He also helped pioneer this conglomerate’s 1st GRI-marked sustainability report. In his time in the Philippine Department of Finance, he served as an alternate of the Secretary of Finance as chair of the boards of state-owned enterprises where he helped advance reforms to introduce renewable energy and improve governance for energy access efforts in remote areas in the Philippines.
OUR LEADERSHIP
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RAZEL SUANSING, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
RAZEL SUANSING is a senior-level political advisor and climate practitioner. She is currently the youngest Chief Political Affairs Officer in the House of Representatives and the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Klima. She has over a decade of experience in climate education and has educated an audience of over 20,000 people about the state of climate education in the Philippines. In Congress, she leads the working group for the first national inquiry on climate risk vulnerability and integrated nature-based and infrastructure solutions in the Philippines, the most climate-risk-vulnerable country in the world. She is an incoming Master's in Social Innovation Candidate at the University of Cambridge and currently an Asia-Pacific Sustainability Leadership Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She graduated with a B.A. in Political Science (Honors), Human Rights, and Journalism from Yale University.