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“They believe for a day when everyone in the world can take a safe drink of water. It’s easy to take for granted ready access to a safe supply of drinking water. Yet nearly one billion people lack this most basic resource. They believe that creating accessible, safe water supplies in developing countries frees people […]
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The legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her other community projects, that help people in booming African towns live side-by-side with threatened animals.
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“Is about finding the right formula between conservation, communities and commerce. Great Plains Conservation’s model takes stressed and threatened environments, surrounds them with compassionate protection and intelligent management. It’s an initiative to help curb the downward spiral of our threatened natural world by being proactive today, and by applying what they know best. This is […]
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“Seeding Labs connect talented individuals to the tools they need to help themselves and their communities. They have always had, at its heart, a single core belief that scientists with a lot of resources have a responsibility to share them with their colleagues in the developing world. Seeding Labs is a non profit organisation that […]
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When the Grandmothers speak the earth will be healed – Hopi Prophecy. A Grandmother’s Tribe captures the lives of two Kenyan grandmothers who have stepped into the void after the loss of their own children to raise their young grandchildren.
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