This project will remove 1 ton of waste from landfill, provide 6 months income to 3 trash picker families, education support for 3 children, and 10 months of work to previously unemployed sewing teams
Our 2010 goal is to empower 50,000 young students across China, enlisting help from 500 university student volunteers by training them to deliver the GECKO program to high schools themselves.
The Tecnico Maya School is a green construction project being built by Long Way Home (www.longwayhomeinc.org) in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala using recycled tires and litter-packed bottles.
Train rural women to use solar energy as an alternative fuel and make simple solar cookers for use and sale, freeing time for income generating activities, stopping deforestation and improving health.
Restore native forest and build an ecology education facility in Jepara, helping to rebuild economic capacity in a sustainable way, demonstrate environmental stewardship, and create community pride.
Build 150 fuel-efficient stoves to alleviate serious respiratory infections and other diseases that affect women and children while reducing firewood extraction from vital forests.
CCF’s BushBlok project harvests invasive bush in southern Africa, reclaiming thousands of acres of grasslands for wildlife and farmers and manufacturing a clean-burning source of energy from the wood.
Western pond turtles are almost extinct. To protect the species, we annually care for 60 baby turtles until they're big enough to thrive in the wild, and then rerelease them in their natural habitat.
Engaging 1000 households in solid waste management, thereby improving the living environment for poor people as well as rejuvenating soil and safeguarding agricultural biodiversity.
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