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DWEJ is a community-based organization that advocates for a healthy environment through innovative community and policy action that values all people. Learn how to take action, volunteer, and join the movement to protect Detroiters' right to clean air, safe water and healthy neighborhoods.
- Our Team
Strategy and Partnerships. Laprisha Berry Daniels. Executive...
- ABOUT US
From the start, our primary focus has been to ensure that...
- WHAT WE DO
Resources and Education About Community Health (REACH) DWEJ...
- WHY WE DO IT
Advocated for the clean-up of an estimated 60,000...
- WHAT YOU CAN DO
WHAT YOU CAN DO - Detroiters Working for Environmental...
- BOARD OF DIRECTORS
She has spent decades working for education, immigrant,...
- PARTNERS
DWEJ partners with a diverse network of organizations,...
- CLIMATE AND ENERGY
We convene an incubator to support peer-to-peer learning...
- POLICY AND ADVOCACY
Everyone deserves healthy communities; neighborhoods where...
- PUBLICATIONS
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice, 2017....
- Our Team
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice – or DWEJ for short – is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the environmental and economic health of our community. We advocate for a healthy environment through innovative, thoughtful community and policy actions that value and includes all people.
WHAT WE DO. DWEJ focuses on reducing environmental health disparities, specifically those related to asthma, lead poisoning and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Our approaches involve combining education about impacts of environmental hazards and climate change with political action to reduce the environmental factors that lead to disease.
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Led by Donele Wilkins, these activists began to meet and build an organizing strategy that would ensure that Detroiters had the tools they needed to demand a cleaner, healthier city. Since then, we at DWEJ are continuing to fight against chronic illness from pollution and demanding that policymakers ensure a sustainable future for all ...
