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China Earthquake Relief - Loans for Village Rebuilding

Goal: ECOLOGIA's base of operations in China is Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Our project site is in the mountains west of Chengdu, where the earthquake damage was greatest. We are using our existing on-the-ground capacity to deliver post- emergency relief aid to earthquake survivors. This includes support for rebuilding and repairing damaged homes and village infrastructure.
The Progress Report, May-December 2008 explains what we have achieved so far. It also lays out plans to continue and expand the work as part of ECOLOGIA's long-term commitment to poverty alleviation and sustainable development.
Region: China
Status: Needs Funding Budget: $90000 Collected: $52338 Needs: $37662
Comment: Our goal is to encourage villagers to engage in reconstruction that will be more earthquake resistant and also more environmentally friendly. We are avoiding some of the problems of post-Katrina and post-tsunami construction where people rebuilt the same kinds of inappropriate dwellings. In addition, we are using this opportunity to seed the creation of community funds. Reconstruction and repair loans will be repaid to the community trust fund (over a period of one to five years). The community fund will then be used to promote environmentally and socially sustainable development, in response to the perceived needs of the villagers.

Individual Donors: Anonymous [Colorado, Massachusetts, California, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Mexico, Kentucky, Vermont, Kansas, Virginia]; John Allen, Kentucky; Matthew Amoss, Louisiana; Diana Bain, Vermont; Sarah Bender, Colorado; Richard Bennett, Utah; Chris Bohjalian, Vermont; Jordan Brener, Vermont; Kate Brittain, California; Chris Carlson and Marty Wolf, Colorado; May Chan, Paris FRANCE; David and Jane Chaplin, Alabama; Zachary Chen, Illinois; John and Julie Conroy, Maryland; Ellie Coriell, Colorado; Jane Detwiler, Massachusetts, Catherine Donnell, Colorado ; Elizabeth Engelman, California; Jennifer Finn, Colorado; Jamie Kyra Fuchs, Connecticut; for Kim Gormley, from Tina Holland, Massachusetts; Sara Grantstrom, Vermont; Michelle and Chris Hair, Colorado; Janet Hale, Connecticut; Ann L. Hanson, Ohio; Joe and JoAnne Henjum, Colorado; Nancy Henjum, Colorado; Jamie Henn, California; Gen A Izutsu, New Hampshire; Gayle R Jordan, Colorado; Beth Kemp, Colorado; Daniel Knowlton, New Hampshire; Deborah Knowlton, New Hampshire; Nora Lamm, New Mexico; Hugo Lara, Connecticut; Liza Levy, Kentucky; Patty and Andy Leyland; Mike and Nancy Maday, Colorado; Caitlin Matthews, Oregon; Sandra McCalmon, Colorado; Vernon and Shirley Mollan, Minnesota; Judith A. Nolan and Elizabeth Wiernasz, Connecticut; Maria Myra Palmero, New York; Alexander Paraschos, Massachusetts; Ardith Pierce, Kansas; MacKenzie Roebuck-Walsh, Japan; Guy Scarborough, Colorado; Brian Siegele, Colorado; Vu Tran, Maryland; Lilian Vince, New York; Christina Winker, Massachusetts; Benjamin Young, Colorado; Robin Young, Pennsylvania; For Jodie Zhang - Sue Ma. Massachusetts; Zachary Zimmerman, New Hampshire

Organization Donors: Church Communities Foundation, New York; Westwood Hills Church Social Action and Outreach Board, California; Springs Mountain Sangha,a Zen Buddhist Community, Colorado; Middlebury College 5K Fun Run (for Burma/Myanmar and China disaster relief) May 22, Vermont; Summer Solstice Celebration of First Congregational Church in Colorado Springs; Church Communities - UK; St. Paul Central High School Roots and Shoots, Minnesota; Green Across the Pacific, Vermont; Chengdu International Women's Club with support from the local and expatriate Chengdu community

Volunteers for ECOLOGIA's Earthquake Relief Efforts (on the ground in Chengdu): Meg Young, Colorado; Kate Leyland, Connecticut; Xuefeng Liao ("Quincy"), Vermont; Daniel Knowlton, New Hampshire; Dr. Robbie Ali, Pennsylvania; Huang He, HUNGARY; Stephanie Ellis, Ohio; Miko Heller, California.

Micro-finance for Rabbit Raising in China

Goal: Each donation of $330 will enable a farming family in rural Sichuan Province to participate in a micro-loan program developed by successful rabbit farmers, in partnership with ECOLOGIA. Our goal for 2008 is to raise enough additional money to involve 10 additional farming families.
Region: China
Status: Needs Funding Budget: $53300 Collected: $50000 Needs: $3300
Comment: Chinese farmers are currently facing vast environmental and social upheaval; micro-finance support for rabbit raising provides an opportunity for family members to earn money while staying together on their land.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has supported this micro-finance project since 2007, with the original seed money and overhead costs. The additional funding requested here will enable us to reach more families.

TAIGA ALIVE! Totem Project Campaign for 2010

Goal: To provide critical direct aid, capacity training and native rights support to people of the mountain, taiga forest and steppe grassland cultures; to maintain and enhance their traditional nomadic lifestyles of reindeer, yak and camel breeding, hunting and gathering in their native homelands.

Donors: James McFarland, Washington DC; [December 2007]; Dinah Bear, Washington DC [January 2008]; Ruth Nelson; Barakat Foundation, Massachusetts [January 2008]; Ashley Walker, New York State; Cultural Survival, Massachusetts [February 2008]; Barbara Felitti and Wayne Curley, Washington DC; Gerald Perry, Tennessee; Nils Larsen, Washington State [March 2008]; John Scheib, New York State [May 2008]; The Kelly Scheib Fund through Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, Ohio [May 2008]; The New York Community Trust Worth Fund [July 2008]; Oracle Corporation Matching Gifts Program [October 2008]; December 2008: Merrill Family Foundation, Inc.; Joseph/Cameron Walkuski, Montana; Joyce Hundley, Washington DC; Victor Himbaugh, Kentucky; Raymond Curran, New York State; Arthur Albrecht, California; Ruth Nelson, Massachusetts; New York State: William Burdsall; Michael Reynolds; Louis Curth; Marguerite Pitts; Timothy Scherbatskoy; Lincoln Stoller; St. Lawrence University Outdoor Center; Matthew Foley; Samuel Fisk; James McFarland, Washington DC; Dinah Bear, Washington DC; Louise Gregg, New York
2009 The Barakat Foundation, New York; The New York Community Trust Worth Fund; Anita Davis, Oregon; National Sports Academy, New York; Carl George, New York; Kevin Elwell, Virginia; The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region (Albany New York); Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York City; Brian McMahon, Western Australia.
Region: China, Mongolia, Siberia
Status: Needs Funding Budget: $30000 Collected: $5000 Needs: $25000
Comment: An ABC World News team led by Clarissa Ward, ABC Asia Correspondent, traveled with Totem Project founder Dan Plumley to interview and film the Dukha reindeer herders, in Summer 2009. View the September 28, 2009 ABC World News broadcast, and earlier clips as well, at: http://www.abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=Dukha%20Reindeer%20Herders.

Scholarships for Chinese Participants in Sessions of the Salzburg Seminar

Goal: To support the participation of emerging Chinese leaders in global dialogues sponsored by the Salzburg Seminar (in Austria)
Region: China
Status: Needs Funding Budget: $5500 Collected: $3050 Needs: $2450
Comment: Salzburg Seminars provide a forum for rigorous intellectual exchange among emerging leaders from diverse geographic, cultural, and professional sectors on topics of global concern. The Seminar's goals are to "expand viewpoints, facilitate the establishment of worldwide professional networks, and effect enlightened change in the future." Increased Chinese participation will enhance the quality of the Salzburg experience for all participants.
Donors: The C. E. and S. Foundation, Kentucky [December 2002]; Katherine Gould-Martin, New York State [December 2003]

Education for Rural Chinese Girls

Goal: To provide educational opportunities for motivated Chinese girls from rural families who are unable or unwilling to pay the girls' school fees to continue their education into middle school
Region: China
Status: Needs Funding Budget: $4924 Collected: $3384 Needs: $1540
Comment: Many girls who show strong interest and ability are not supported by their families in their quest for education. The Rabbit King Poverty Alleviation Center (set up by successful Chinese entrepreneurs) identifies motivated girls from impoverished families, and provides them with scholarships and work-study opportunities. Starting in the Chengdu region, this program is working through schools which serve rural youth.

Donors: Anonymous Family [January 2006]; Middlebury Union High School Model UN Vermont [March 2006]; ECOLOGIA [January 2007]; MUHS Model UN [May 2007]; Jan and Nick Vasilius, Arizona [December 2007]

Donor-Advised Anti-Desertification Fund for China

Goal: To identify and support grassroots Chinese activities and projects to combat the spread of desertification. WE HAVE THE START-UP FUNDING; WE ARE LOOKING FOR PROJECTS.
Region: China
Status: Needs Funding Budget: $3000 Collected: $0 Needs: $3000
Comment: An anonymous Chinese donor, with match funds from the Trace Foundation, has established a Donor-Advised Fund to support Anti-Desertification projects in China.

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