Previous Grants
Trees, Water & People (TWP), Honduras ($500)
TWP is a reforestation project in Honduras dedicated to helping communities develop sustainable forests and watersheds. They believe that local people should play an integral part in the use and care of local natural resources. TWP's programs are specifically aimed at finding the balance between the needs of the environment and the needs of people in the 21st century. This is the second year TWP has received a grant from MNRPCV. For more information on TWP go to www.treeswaterpeople.org.
East African Deaf Connection - Skills Exchange Program, Kenya ($2000)
The Skills Exchange Program provides hearing Kenyan teachers with an education in Kenyan sign language, deaf culture awareness, and a co-teaching experience with a deaf American, to be applied and integrated into their teaching practices. The initial goal is to place 41 teachers in the deaf school and have them carry on the training they received by instructing and educating other teachers.
Sankhu School, Nepal ($2000)
In response to the overwhelming number of children who cannot sustain their basic needs and have no alternative to becoming child laborers, a volunteer committee of Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights established and opened the Sankhu school in the Kathmandu valley of Nepal on September 9, 1999 for children under 16. The goal of the project is to help curb forced child labor by demonstrating that with an investment in education poor children can improve not only their lives but also the prospects for the larger community. The MNRPCV grant will go to help cover the costs of furniture, books and stationary. For more information see www.mnadvocates.org/children/childlab.htm.
Friends of Dolpa, Nepal ($500)
Friends of Dolpa is a small, nonprofit organization working directly with Himalayan peoples to improve education and cultural preservation in the remote district of Dolpa, in northwestern Nepal. They support locally-managed projects in and near Shey-Phoksundo National Park. Catherine Inman, Executive Director, is a former PC Volunteer from Minnesota. She invites your comments via email at friendsofdolpa@hotmail.com.
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