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June/July 2008 Featured Project
Working through existing contacts in Sichuan Province, ECOLOGIA is organizing a sustainable re-building loan program. Quick action at this time is benefitting the entire region. Join us in this effort!
"Small Loan is Big Help" May 29, 2008: ECOLOGIA's Qili Village earthquake rebuilding program is covered in the China Daily newspaper
"China Earthquake Relief
Loans for Village Rebuilding"
Collected: $19,372 Needs: $70,628
Region: Sichuan Province, China
Goal: ECOLOGIA staff are on the ground in Chengdu; we and our local partners have been working since the earthquake to provide sustainable reconstruction in mountain villages. Our goal is to encourage villagers to engage in reconstruction that will be more earthquake resistant and also more environmentally friendly.
Comment: We are already planning to avoid some of the problems of post-Katrina and post-tsunami construction where people rebuilt the same kinds of inappropriate dwellings. In addition, we will use this opportunity to seed the creation of community funds. Reconstruction and repair loans will be repaid to the community trust fund that will then be used to promote environmentally and socially sustainable development....
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Match Challenge Grant
from Barakat Foundation
Encourages
Taiga Alive! 2008
Supporters of the Totem Project's "Taiga Alive! 2008" now have the chance to raise an additional $4,000 from the Barakat Foundation, thanks to a Match Challenge Grant. When "Taiga Alive! 2008" reaches a total of $7,500 in new donations, Barakat will provide the additional $4,000, on top of their initial grant of $3,500.
Donations already received (as of 5-22-08) which count toward the Match Challenge: $4,705.
The goal of this project is to support people of the mountain, taiga forest and steppe grassland cultures in eastern Asia; to maintain and enhance their traditional nomadic lifestyles of reindeer, yak and camel breeding, hunting and gathering in their native homelands. Read more about it...
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