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January 2010 Featured Project

Region Mongolia, Central Asia
Budget: $28,340; Collected: $19,225
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... ...read more.
Comment: ABC World News traveled with Totem Project founder Dan Plumley to interview and film the Dukha reindeer herders. View the September 28, 2009 ABC World News broadcast at: http://www.abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=Dukha%20Reindeer%20Herders.

Region: Sichuan Province, China
Collected: $52,338
Goal:
Working through existing contacts in Sichuan Province, ECOLOGIA organized and implemented a sustainable re-building loan program in response to the May 2008 earthquake. Our quick action just after the earthquake, and continued support for survivors struggling to rebuild, became a model for the entire region.
Comment: We used this opportunity to seed the creation of community funds. Reconstruction and repair loans are being repaid to the community trust fund that is beingused to promote environmentally and socially sustainable development....
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