Traversing the Sedari Mangrove Belt: Notes on Coastal Women's Resilience

We arrived at Sedari hamlet just as the sun climbed high overhead. Thick mud swallowed our shins, yet the deft hands of coastal women nurseries never ceased driving bamboo stakes into the silt. To them, mangroves are far more than a conservation campaign; they are the living barrier defending their doorsteps against relentless annual storm surges.