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American Friends Service Committee
$5,000
Grant supports a multi-ethnic community garden and resource center in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
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CARE
$1,000
This grant went to support the tsunami relief effort in
Southeastern Asia. |
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FINCA International
$20,000
$5,000 went to each of four micro-enterprise programs
in Mexico, Uzbekistan, Armenia and Afghanistan. |
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Grassroots International
$5,000
Supports a Haitian peasant organization that raises and breeds
the Creole pig for personal food and income.
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Guatemala Tomorrow Fund
$12,500
This grant goes to a training program that teaches young Mayan women sustainable agriculture techniques and nutrition counseling to improve the overall health of their families and villages. |
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Human Cooperation Center
$7,500
The grant enables impoverished women and youth farmers in Bangladesh to adopt advanced farming techniques to increase production and to eliminate food deficit. This project was
co-funded by the Jack DeLoss Taylor Charitable Trust. |
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International Development Exchange (IDEX)
$5,000
The grant supports three partner organizations of IDEX in Bihar, India and provides women with micro-credit loans to develop enterprises in sustainable agriculture.
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Wildlife Conservation Society
$5,000
Aids in the construction of an agriculture training center in the Lundaz District of Zambia. One of the functions of the training center is to facilitate the marketing of local farm goods.
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World Concern
$5,000
Grant supports a program that trains Afghan women
to become seamstresses. Since 85% of Afghan women are illiterate, educational training as well as sewing lessons are provided. They are also provided with a sewing machine and
will pay $5/month for six months to repay the cost.
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