Congratulations to Kantora Action for Green (KAG) for receiving a grant from the Center for United Nations Constitutional Research (CUNCR) to to plant 10,000 trees in the Gambia!. CUNCR, aims to mitigate climate change through nature-based solutions and to engage regional and local communities, particularly youth, to participate in this effort. KAG creates communities of empowered young people who are motivated to actively participate in tree planting for a greener and a healthier environment.!
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In the heart of the Amazon rainforest youth activists, indigenous leaders, scientists and forest dwellers are building a new alliance and demonstrating that the rainforest is central to life. Pennywise will continue our Giving Tuesday tradition of making small, unsolicited grants to uniquely effective non-profits so that they can spend a little less time fundraising and more time advancing their critical missions. Some of their priorities include reproductive rights, immigrant rights and climate change.
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“Our lands are being invaded, our leaders murdered, attacked and criminalized, and the Brazilian state is abandoning Indigenous peoples to their fate with the ongoing dismantling of environmental and indigenous policies.” -The Association of Brazilian Indigenous Peoples Paulo Paulino Guajajara was murdered during a hunting trip with a friend in the Araribóia reserve on Friday by a group of five loggers working illegally in the area. The murder is one of a string of losses for Brazil’s indigenous communities, as miners and loggers make more and bolder incursions into Indigenous territories and other protected areas. " -Manuela Andreoni and Letícia Casado We must react with clear strategies to protect the land and the people of the Amazon. Amazon Hope joins together the specialists most intimately engaged with the Xingu and the diverse indigenous peoples who call it home. It aims to jointly consider the current crisis – the hardest hit portion of the Amazon – and communicate its vitality and importance to interested partners, potential donors and the public. Through Amazon Hope, scientists, artists and indigenous leaders are working to devise solutions. The creation of a southern Amazon indigenous “firewall,” will be used as a tool to protect the lands, forests, waters and cultural heritage. Technology will empower indigenous people themselves, who constitute a veritable army of committed individuals, zealously looking for solutions to defend against the decimation of their lands and livelihoods. Pennywise is pleased to announce our newest partner in positive change - Kantora Action for Green (KAG)! KAG is a registered environmental nonprofit organization in the Gambia that seeks to educate and empower young people to act towards caring for the environment through sports. They use the power of sports to bring young people together to actively participate in the rehabilitation of the depleting vegetation in the Kantora district of Upper River Region in The Gambia.
KAG collaborates with local schools and community support groups, using sports as a way of engaging young people. Through their sports teams in both the schools and the community, they participate in tree seed collection, planting, and transplanting exercises. In supporting these youth, KAG regularly organizes and sponsors sports tournaments throughout the district both in schools and communities. KAG has purchased its first set of 2000 biodegradable grow bags and some acacia seeds for a new nursery of 1500 mixed trees of cashew, avocado, and acacia. We are so excited to see this work grow! Welcome Kantora Action for Green and thank you for your amazing work to make the world a better place for generations to come! Check them out on Facebook! Our thoughts are with the people of Haiti and SOIL, our grantee partner there, as that nation confronts an economic and political crisis. Access to water, food, electricity, fuel and transportation have all become a challenge. Schools are closed and supplies at hospitals are dangerously low. For families already struggling to get by on a day-to-day basis, the challenges caused by dramatically increased costs for basic necessities are unspeakable. People from all walks of life have been in the streets almost daily for weeks calling for accountability and political change in the face of an uncertain future.
Through blocked roads, scarce supplies, and rising prices SOIL’s dedicated staff has continued to ensure not only that people have access to hygienic sanitation services but also that collected waste is transformed into usable compost. SOIL’s pioneering approaches to sustainable sanitation service delivery combine innovative service delivery models with a strategic approach to financial sustainability. The wisdom of their is being demonstrated by their resiliency in facing the current challenges. Click HERE to learn more about the situation in Haiti. DONATE NOW to stand with the people of Haiti and support SOIL’s work Climate change is happening NOW in the XINGU. Be part of the hope.
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