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Provide food & water to 260 San People in Botswana

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Summary

First Peoples is providing food aid to the San in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. We will transport goods into the Reserve to four communities. This will ensure the San's survival. project reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The San were unjustly evicted from their homes in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve and although some communities have returned home, they are on the brink of starvation and are no longer allowed access to their water sources. First Peoples is providing immediate access to food and water.

Activities

First Peoples will transport food and water directly to the four San communities living inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. This will ensure that the San and their culture are able to survive and begin to thrive again.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $6,772
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $728
Total Funding Goal: $7,500

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

260 people will be served. We will help the San negotiate with the government to regain traditional land and resource rights with an ultimate goal of community-based natural resource management. This is a community-driven solution to redress eviction

Project Message

"We want to go freely in our own land doing what we did in the old days."
- Kaishotla, Indigenous San, project beneficiary

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Neva Adamson
Human Resources Director
3307 Bourbon Street
Fredericksburg, VA 22408
United States
5408996545
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Project Sponsor

Neva Adamson

Organization

First Peoples Worldwide Logo

First Peoples Worldwide
857 Leeland Road
Fredericksburg, VA 22405
United States
(540) 899-6545
http://www.firstpeoplesworldwide.org

Learn more about First Peoples Worldwide and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in BotswanaBotswana and can also be found under Economic DevelopmentEconomic Development.

For more information about Botswana, read the Human Development Report on Botswana or the Wikipedia entry for Botswana.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 3, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 24, 2008

Latest Update from the Field

December 2009 Update

By Jessica Friswell - Research and Internship Coordinator, December 02, 2009 01:09 PM

First Peoples Worldwide is working with our local contacts to deliver relief items to resettled San communities in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. We are currently working to transition the model for short term relief to San communities into a longer-term more sustainable model. By linking our delivery partner and a local San-led NGO, we are hoping that a sustainable partnership can develop between the two entities and the San communities they serve. We are providing technical assistance to the NGO to increase the sustainability of the project by directly involving more community members. In order to make lasting changes we will need to come together with our partners in Botswana for discussion with the government and we are working toward making this happen.

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