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Courage | Commitment | Change | July
2010 | | | Editors: Amrita Balachandran, Karthik Ranganathan & Sree Ganesan | | | | |
Dear Friends,
Happy Independence Day! On this occasion, let us take a moment to solemnly recall Gandhiji's Talisman to humbly introspect and guide us forward: "I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [person] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [self rule] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."
In this issue of Dishaa, we talk about basic human rights such as the right to food, right to water and right to health that still elude the poor and marginalized. Be it the survivors of the Bhopal disaster who struggle for access to clean water, or the rural poor affected by the civil war in Chattisgarh in a multitude of ways, or the millions "below poverty line" that rely on the public distribution system for food, the "right to life" enshrined in the Constitution remains a distant reality. But all is not despair. We also bring you stories of hope and possibility through the efforts of ordinary people in Surodi, Maharastra and Bilaspur district, Chattisgarh.
More than six decades since independence, the poor and marginalized in India continue to struggle for freedom, as survivors though, not as victims. We pledge to continue our work to improve their lives, and count on your support to make this possible.
Warm Regards,
Volunteers, Association for India's Development | | | | Revitalizing Child Nutrition in Rural Chhattisgarh
 Malnutrition, a serious problem in Chhattisgarh, afflicts 65% of children under five, and causes over 50% of all deaths in this age-group. Jan Sawasthya Sahyog (JSS), a healthcare organization in rural Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh, identified one of the underlying causes of malnutrition among children as the absence of a caretaker and set up Phulwaris, to feed children between the ages of 3 to 6. [Read more...] | | | | | | Surodi: A Village Transformed by Ideas
 The village of Surodi presents an extraordinary story of transformation. From dry and non-productive to bountiful and prosperous, through the concerted efforts of its villagers, and with financial help from AID. The villagers of Surodi had worked hard to build check dams for rainwater harvesting that provided them access to water all through the year. Even on the hot summer day of our visit in May, I saw wells that stood full - a testimony to the efforts of the villagers. [Read more...] | | | | | | National Food Security Bill - A Threat to Food Security?
 The National Food Security Bill introduced by UPA-II government has been a key item on the recent agenda of the Right to Food campaign. The draft bill as it stands today would provide subsidized food to Below Poverty Line (BPL) families, through various means such as cash transfers and food coupons. Will this reall work? [Read more...] | | | | | | Volunteers Protest Bhopal Injustice
 The June 7th, 2010 verdict against seven Union Carbide India Limited officials by a Bhopal court has sparked protests all over the world. Protests and vigils in Boston, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, Austin and Philadelphia continue to intensify the pressure on the Indian government to take action now. [Read more...] | | | | | | One Year After: A Conversation with Dr. Binayak Sen
Dr.  Binayak Sen and his wife Dr. Ilina Sen speak with AID volunteers about health care, human rights, structural violence and the role of media in civil war affected areas of rural India.
[Read more...] | | | | | | Getting Started on the Sprint: AID Pittsburgh's Marathon Debut
 AID Pittsburgh launched Run for India with very modest expectations. Their marathon runners surprisingly turned it into the best fund raiser in the chapters' recent history. [Read more...]
Do you want to run a marathon for a good cause? Contact your local chapter or visit www.runforindia.org for more information on running and training programs near you. | | | | | | Recently Approved Projects
Your contributions are creating new livelihoods for the elderly in Orissa, rehabilitating Mogya tribals in Rajasthan, and supporting Cyclone Aila-affected children with their schooling. [Read more...]
We rely on donations from individuals like you to support our work. Please consider making a generous donation today.
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Courage | Commitment | Change | June
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Dear Well-wisher,
Each year during the US Memorial Day weekend, volunteers across AID chapters have the chance to meet and share ideas and strategies for working effectively for the cause of sustainable and just development in India. For the first time in 14 years, the AID conference took place not in a university, but in a state park, where blue waters, green trees, brown mud and falling rain drowned out all signal and noise of the world outside. In an attempt to connect what we learn about social issues through our involvement with AID with what we do to sustain ourselves in our everyday lives, the Seattle volunteers planned for all participating volunteers and guests to stay on site, cook, wash, discuss and be together till the wee hours each day. Along with volunteers from across the US, partners from India and visitors from Canada participated in soul-searching conversations in the kitchen and dining areas and back in the cabins where they were lodged. If you missed the conference, here is your chance to read and view some highlights. Apart from the sessions on agriculture, anti-corruption, human rights in Chhattisgarh, debates on health and the workshop on development and democracy, volunteers learned by practice and experience about food issues from sourcing to distribution. The conference plays a vital role in energizing volunteers each year for setting higher standards in the quality of projects we support, and in maintaining the consistency with which we keep our commitments to our partners. Through chapter events and local community outreach, this energy touches every person in the wider support circle that makes Association for India's Development's work possible. People like you who are tuned in, help to carry the message and thus our circle grows stronger.
Warm regards,
Volunteers, Association for India's Development
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 The 'Democracy and Development' workshop conducted by Biju Mathew and Sangeeta Kamat was specifically geared towards developing an understanding of structural injustices. Participants tried to come up with possible solutions to case studies of impoverishment and explored ways in which organizations like AID can work with the marginalized through a combination of Seva, Sangharh and Nirmaan. [Read more...] | | |
| | | When we decided to eat consciously
 It all began with a subconscious intention to be conscious and intentional about food. We wanted to reduce our reliance on our taste buds to tell us that we must have Bananas from Ecuador or Lal Masoor from Turkey. [Read more...] | | | | | | From Birds to Roots: A Holistic Future for Organic Farming.
 Lives and lands ravaged by poisoning from chemical fertilizers and pesticides. A growing disconnect between the producers and consumers of food, and hundreds of farmers committing suicide. Even as the tsunami wreaked havoc among an impoverished agricultural populace, AID Saathi Revathy, helped promote sustainable agriculture, employing earthworms and birds alike, in harmony with the larger eco-system. [Read more...] | | | | | | Our Money, Our Accounts
 The importance of tools like social audits, Jan Sunvais (public hearings) and RTIs, in ensuring the transparent functioning of a democracy was thus pointed out by Lal Singhji, a village leader: "हम सोचते हैं की सूचना का अधिकार नहीं मिले तो हम क्या रहेंगे या नहीं रहेंगे, आपलोग सोचते हैं की सूचना का अधिकार अगर मिल जाये तो आपकी कुर्सी रहेगी या नहीं रहेगी, लेकिन दोस्तों, हम सबको मिलके सोचना चाहिए की क्या ये देश रहेगा या नहीं रहेगा" "Without the right to information, we wonder if we will survive. What you worry about is, if we get the right to information will your seat in power survive. What all of us need to think about together is whether our country will survive." [Read more...] | | | | | | Chhattisgarh: Can our Democracy Rise to the Challenge?
 The Adivasi in Chhattisgarh has always been at the receiving end of an extreme form of violence. Structural violence, borne out of structural inequities, that is perpetrated by the ruling class. This is a violence that all of us are together inflicting upon the marginalized of our country. The authoritarian and military approach our policy makers have taken up, blindly following ideas of progress borrowed from Western philosophies, involve displacing large indigenous communities off their lands and resources. Himanshu's talk brought up fundamental questions on our understanding of development, progress, education, ownership of resources, and so on. [Read more...] | | |
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Courage | Commitment | Change | April
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While sustainability and biodiversity have become recent buzzwords in conversations all over the world, they have been a feature of AID's initiatives since inception. Challenging contemporarily accepted notions of development and innovation that erode the planet's resources, AID has consistently helped provide a platform for the revitalization of sustainable traditional methods and wisdom.
In this edition of Dishaa, we bring to you some of AID's recent efforts of the same. Even as the challenges of ushering in a plastic-free world force a rethink of our everyday activities, from our clothes to our baby's clothes, the Vellore Hill Restoration Project dreams to do more, while greening and cooling the barren Vellore Hills. We also showcase the community kitchens that feed the most vulnerable of the Cyclone-Aila ravaged Sunderban's populace, while taking a critical look at the Indian regulator's tryst with biodiversity, one that reveals some and conceals more.
Warm regards,
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 Increasing the water table, bringing down the average temperature in Vellore, restoring the green cover on the hills, and providing sustainable eco-friendly solutions for waste management - the Vellore Hill Restoration Project envisions a green, sustainable future in the state of Tamil Nadu.
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 Cyclone Aila's destruction of agriculture, the rising food prices, and a lack of local food production have forced thousands of families to reduce their food intake significantly. Worst affected are the old and the infirm, who become the first people to be deprived. AID volunteers and their partners BTS and Mukti started 5 community kitchens in the most deprived parts of the Aila-affected areas, to ensure a healthy cooked meal once a day for the most vulnerable sections of the community.
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| | | Plastic-Free Living
 In Ponduru (Andhra Pradesh), at the base of the mountains that are quarried, lie mounds of trash, bearing labels of global corporations, full of plastic and other disposable products that have replaced reusable cloth items. Huge subsidies to the petroleum industry make plastic and polyester cheaper than their eco-friendly alternatives. Yet, eco-friendly options abound, and their benefits are for the world to see. [Read more...] | | |
| | | Biodiversity: Caught in the Legal Web
 As one witnesses biodiversity, related knowledges and livelihoods being more and more regulated through legal webs such as NBA, BRAI, one just knows there is much more left to unfold. The Indian government is way ahead in its closed door deliberations, and we've only just begun catching up. [Read more...] | | |
| | | In the Wake of the Floods: A Flood-Relief Update from Karnataka
 In the initial weeks of recovery after last year's disastrous floods, Jagrutha Mahila Sangathan used relief funds to distribute rice and grain to villages in need. Soon after, focusing on rehabilitating the villages in a sustainable manner, JMS provided the villagers with eco-friendly biomass stoves and developed a model rooftop rainwater-harvesting unit, for collecting clean drinking water. Achieving self-sufficiency was the single largest priority.
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| | | Destination Seattle
Over 120 AID volunteers from different chapters across the US and other parts of the globe, will congregate in Seattle during the Memorial Day weekend, for the 2010 Annual AID-US Conference (May 28-31) for wide-ranging discussions on tribal rights, organic farming, rural health-care and much more. [Read more...] | | |
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Your contributions have helped support projects from wildlife preservation through Kalpavriksh, to promoting millet farming in Anantapur, from empowering women through the Utthan Gender Program, to supporting Bhopali survivors through their two-month long dharna in support of the Empowered Commission on Bhopal proposal. All this and much more! [Read more...] | | |
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Dear Friend,
Every month, at chapter meetings and at other AID events across the globe, volunteers update the community about the projects that they are involved with, host awareness and fundraiser events, and lend a voice to the issues faced at the grassroots level in India.
In this edition of TMIA, we bring you a few select stories that represent the diverse facets of AID's work. While one story echoes the voices from the year-long struggle of the people in the Mahuva region of Gujarat, as they fight non-violently to preserve their land and their livelihood, another recognizes the dedicated, principled volunteers who have worked hard, with limited means, to preserve the right to education in an East Delhi settlement. Fundraisers and other community events are an important aspect of our chapter activities. In addition to gaining local support, successful events work wonders for focusing, motivating and inspiring our volunteer pool. AID Seattle recently co-ordinated an event, Tarana, that brought their community together in a musical performance by a popular band, dedicated towards promoting their common cause. Not very far away, Bay Area volunteers co-hosted an event to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Across the country, in Austin and Memphis, two teenagers demonstrate the power of the motivated youth, in making a significant difference toward the causes that they embrace.
Warm regards,
Volunteers, Association for India's Development | | | | Parichay: Enabling Education in an East Delhi Settlement
The residents of T urkmirpur had little access to education or vocational training prior to 1998, when Vijay Bajpai started Parichay. Today children of a range of ages learn reading, writing, linguistics and mathematics to prepare themselves for a formal education. Supported by AID Pittsburgh, Parichay is working to spread awareness on mental disability, with the aim of integrating the mentally challenged into the mainstream of society. [Read more...] | | |
| | | Tarana: Music for a Cause
The Seattle chapter hosted a creative fundraiser, featuring the popular band AllGoRhythms, making for a great evening of music with a message! [Read more...] | | |
| | | And Once Again we Ask: Whose Land is it Anyway?
It was a rude shock to many farmers in Mahuva that the Government of Gujarat (GoG) had sanctioned around 3,300 hectares of fertile agricultural land for setting up a cement plant by Nirma Private Limited. The plant is expected to employ all of 418 people with an investment of over Rs. 2,500 Crores. It will unfortunately destroy the lives and livelihoods of over 50,000 people. People of at least 15 villages have steadfastly and nonviolently opposed this project over the past year.
[Read more...] | | | | | | As Our Youth Lead...
 Varun Bhatnagar, a 16 year old high school student from Austin, wanted to do something for India. So, he took the lead to organize AustIndia, an event that raised $2,000 for the local AID chapter, and turned a noble thought into a significant achievement. Neha Kumar, a high school student from Memphis and the founder and president of AID's Mid South chapter, is now launching a book, to raise funds for AID India! Read on to find out how YOU can contribute to Make Life Sweeter! [Read more...] | | | | | | Remembering Bhopal
 The Bay Area chapter in partnership with FOSA, marked the 25th year anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Their event called attention to the government's failure to clean up the factory and its surroundings - a failure that has left 20,000 dead and 100,000 with chronic and disabling illnesses. Amongst the thousands of witnesses to this disaster was Seshadri Satyanarayan, an AID volunteer who was fourteen years old at the time of the Bhopal disaster, and saw his own hometown devastated by the Methyl Isocynate (MIC) leak that left behind a legacy of innocent victims who continue to suffer and struggle. [Read more...] | | | | | | Call for peace in Chhattisgarh
Press Statement, April 6, 2010. AID strongly condemns the killing of over 70 CRPF jawans in an attack by armed people reportedly belonging to the CPI(Maoist) on Tuesday morning in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. Our heartfelt condolences and sincere wishes are with the family members and the near and dear ones of the jawans and police personnel who have lost their lives. We appeal to the national and state governments, as well as the Maoists to immediately relinquish violence and call off all military offensives, and come to the dialog table along with the grassroots and civil society groups. [Read more...] | | | | | | Recently Approved Projects
Your contributions have supported Cyclone Aila survivors through a Community Kitchen and Seed Bank in the Sunderbans, facilitation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Purulia district, assessment of environment regulation such as Coastal Regulation Zone notification, the Forest Conservation Act and the Biological Diversity Act, and integrated development in Srikakulam on issues concerning children, women, energy, health, livelihoods, learning, hunger, agriculture, capacity building and proper implementation of government programs. [Read more...] | | | | | nferences | Issue/Region Cells | Poems | Project reports | Press releases | | | |
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2010 | | | | | | | | Dear Well-wisher,
In this issue of TMIA, we bring you stories that highlight a special aspect of the volunteer experience - site visits. As part of our project review process, a significant component that receives consideration during deliberations, is a report on the project, generated from an actual visit to the project site. Oftentimes, it is one of our volunteers, who on a personal visit to India will visit the project, meet the people involved, learn about the work being done and report back. But this is not simply a piece of the project review process. The site visit is also a volunteer's unique personal journey towards understanding ground realities, connecting with people and having the opportunity to explore issues, first-hand. Making the trip to a remote village in India, staying locally for a few days, and spending a few days living the life of the people there, are all enriching experiences. These are journeys that can connect the volunteer to an issue, a place, a people - forever. While the visits themselves spark renewed inspiration and motivation for the volunteers who make the trip, the stories and photographs that come back from them allow those of us who are miles away, a glimpse of that world.
We invite you to join our volunteers in their journeys across rural India, to be transported there, albeit for a few minutes, through their writings.
Warm regards, Volunteers, Association for India's Development | | | | My Visit to Vidarbha
 Girata, Maharashtra. One of the farmers, Sharavan Rathod, after years of growing cotton, had realized that it was no longer economically viable. He started diversifying his crop pattern and managed to buy one buffalo four years back. Now he has no debt and is an owner of 18 buffaloes. A strong sense of community development, unity and team effort was evident in Girata, which is probably the reason why suicide is still a taboo word there. [Read more...] | | | | | | Learning from the Bagnan Gramin Mahila Sammelan
 Bangalpur, West Bengal. The women had chosen to start the seed bank in Bagnan as it is situated in a fertile belt between Damodar and Rupnarayan. Even in these dry winter months people can irrigate their land from the small ponds scattered everywhere. We visited different sites that the women had shortlisted to sow the initial set of traditional seeds. [Read more...] | | | | | | The Opportunity of a Lifetime, with Jan Swasthya Sahyog
 Ganiyari, Chhattisgargh. How has JSS changed my life? I return for four months in the year ahead to work as a volunteer on a project to document personal histories that illustrate the vicious circle of poverty and illness, each intensifying the other. Volunteering at JSS is the opportunity of a lifetime. [Read more...] | | | | | | After Aila, Voices from the Famine
 K-Plot Island, West Bengal. As I was walking on the embankment towards the ghat, an older Muslim man came howling to me. I held him but could not understand anything he said except that he had lost everything. I could not bring myself to ask what he was saying. [Read more...] | | | | | | New Hope in Sangala
 Sangala, Andhra Pradesh. In many farms, the topsoil was entirely washed away, rendering the farms unfit for agriculture. The Government provides compensation for crop and soil loss but does not provide technical support to restore the fields. AID Hyderabad and Jagruthi are collaborating with Saathi Revathy, who has been successful at reclaiming agricultural lands in Tamil Nadu after the Tsunami. [Read more...] | | | | | | Inspired by Dayamani Barla
 Ranchi, Jharkhand. The injured were taken to the police station that exists solely to protect the scheduled castes and tribes from atrocities. At the police station, we were subjected to stone-walling tactics by the police personnel, including their refusal, first to register our case and then acknowledge receipt of the complaint by way of stamping a copy. [Read more...] | | | | | | Recently Approved Projects
Local Self Governance, Bihar, Kabir ($2588, Anti-Corruption Fund): Flood survivors monitor government relief, conduct Gram Sabha meetings, collect data from remote villages and secure democratic rights as part of a movement toward Swaraj, or local self-governance.
Bhalaswa Lok Shakti Manch, Delhi, Sanchal ($13712, Seattle and Troy): Residents of Bhalaswa, a resettlement colony in Delhi, organize themselves to fight for basic civic facilities such as clean water and electricity. | | |
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2010 | | | Editors: Amrita Balachandran and Karthik Ranganathan | | | | | Dear Friend,
In this edition of Dishaa, our quarterly newsletter, we bring you stories of hope and possibility, of grief and fortitude, from all over India.
A terrible human rights crisis is raging in Chhatisgarh. The ongoing conflict between Maoist rebels and state security forces, including the state-backed "Salwa Judum", has displaced tribals from their villages. The adivasis that have stayed behind live in fear of extrajudicial killings, rapes, extortion, and torture. Meanwhile, people in Plachimada, Kerala, continue their struggle for the right to clean drinking water. Their prolonged ordeal is reminiscent of several similar struggles across the nation, and strongly calls for a greater degree of decentralization of decision-making. The Bt brinjal moratorium is a victory for India’s food sovereignty, and in this case, the remarkable decision-making process is itself a victory for democracy as well as science.
With help from Saathi Revathy and others, organic techniques revive agriculture after Cyclone Aila's devastation in the Sunderbans, where no one expected the salinated lands to produce for years. We also showcase the work of Saathi Anand Mazgaonkar, who believes that rural and oppressed communities must take ownership of the issues that they face. In parallel, we bring you the story of the villagers of Ramanwadi, Maharashtra, who did just that, and opened the doors to several new possibilities for their community.
We value the time that you take to read about our work, and hope that you will share your feedback. We invite you to make a tax-deductible donation and receive the AID 2010 calendar, Makaan: A Place Called Home, as a token of our common cause throughout the coming year.
Warm regards,
Volunteers, Association for India's Development
| | | | Chhattisgarh - A Police State in the Making
 Sodi Sambo, a 28 year old tribal woman who witnessed a massacre in Gomapad village in Chhattisgarh, and was herself shot in the leg by security forces in attacking the village, has disappeared mysteriously while in the midst of a petition against the state. Sodi is yet another example of a witness in Chattisgarh being silenced in their struggle against state atrocities.
[Read more...] | | | | | | Bt Brinjal Moratorium - Victory for Farmers, Consumers, Democracy and Science
 On behalf of all concerned farmers, consumers and scientists, AID welcomes the moratorium on Bt brinjal. This is a victory for India’s food sovereignty, preserving the control of seeds and food in the hands of our farmers and consumers. We congratulate the Union Environment Minister, Shri Jairam Ramesh, for upholding the best principles of democracy as well as science, in making the Bt brinjal decision.
[Read more...] | | | | | | Millet Anyone?
 AID Seattle has a new-found love - millets! Working in concert with AID-India, Seattle aims to create an awareness on millets as a means of promoting organic farming, reclaiming the devastated bio-diversity, and ensuring food security for farmers to reduce the alarming rate of farmers' suicides.
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| | | Achieving Excellence in Energy Conservation and Management
 The villagers of Ramanwadi, Maharashtra have set an excellent example for energy conservation and management, in successfully using bio-gas digesters to generate fuel from cow-dung. In addition to generating low-cost, pollution-free fuel, this project also allows for the preservation of indigenous species of cattle, provides organic manure for farms, and increases the possibility of girls attending school.
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| | | Anand Mazgaonkar: Spearheading Non-Violent Change for Rural Poor
 As a youngster, he felt that disproportionate resource allocation to urban areas was stripping the vulnerable rural poor of their basic necessities. To change this, he says, the oppressed community has to take ownership of the issues, and to help, an outsider first has to become part of the community.
[Read more...] | | | | | | Whose Resource is it Anyway?
 By the time the Panchayat and Pollution Control Board ordered the Coke plant in Plachimada, Kerala be shut down, the water was highly contaminated. Kaniamma, a local adivasi woman who is active in the struggle says, "The company came to our land and used our resources. It dried up our water, and now we are forced to buy water from outside. How can we afford water pipelines or buy water for Rs. 700-800, when we hardly make Rs. 100 a day?"
[Read more...] | | | | | | Rebuilding Agriculture after Aila's Fury, Organically
 Simple organic farming techniques used in the aftermath of Cyclone Aila in West Bengal, have been successful at reclaiming land and restoring agriculture in the Sundarbans. Biswanath Sahoo, Balai Gharuni and others share their stories. The success of sustainable methods has created euphoria among the local people, with more wanting to be trained.
[Read more...] | | | | | | One for India raises over $100,000
We are happy to announce that One for India 2009 raised $115,699 from 727 donors. We realize these are tough economic times and thank you for your gracious support. We promise your ONE contribution will make a positive difference in the lives of India's under-privileged. Your continued encouragement and support is invaluable to us.
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Projects made possible with your support range from organic farming initiatives, to tribal health, and environmental action.
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