IAMovement

About us

IAMovement is a non-profit organization which was founded in 2014 by a group of young people in Trinidad & Tobago who felt a strong common need to effect positive environmental and social change and has become a leading civil society voice on climate change locally and regionally.
IAMovement is a Caribbean-based NGO driving positive social and environmental change, focused on sustainable energy, climate resilience and community empowerment.

Our mission is to carry out activities and events in the fields of education, awareness, and empowerment, community building and environmental conservation, and to invite and inspire others to join in and to do the same in their own ways where they can.

What we do
We do so through activities and events to educate and empower others, raise awareness on key social, environmental and economic issues, and have become a platform for discussion and dialogue on important issues at a national level.
IAMovement’s projects, advocacy work and activities are centred around environmental issues primarily: renewable energy, climate change adaptation and waste and water management.
From its inception, IAMovement has implemented various initiatives such as:
• Climate Talk and Rethinking Energy video series: This series entailed a cross country viewing and discussion programme around Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies. It consisted of thirty (30) events at schools, organisations, and public spaces.
• Building Climate Resilience through Community-Led Rehabilitation: The program has entailed training of thirty (30) persons from the Turure community and environs in becoming ‘Quarry Rehabilitation Champions’ to rehabilitate 2.5 hectares of degraded lands at National Quarries site in Sangre Grande.
• Building on Vetiver, and the rehabilitation of Quarries (ROQ) project: It seeks to implement eight (8) large-sized pilot projects around the country, to analyse and document the use of vetiver grass as a bioengineering tool to assist with environmental challenges including: landslides, coastal erosion and quarry and landfill rehabilitation. It will be carried out through an inclusive and opportunity creating approach. Members of communities across Trinidad & Tobago training and employing members of communities across Trinidad and Tobago to partake in the implementation and the maintenance of the projects.

Kevan Kalapnath-Maharaj is the Managing Director of IAMovement.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.