Vegetable Gardens & Internet for Indian Youth

 
$15,550
$44,450
Raised
Remaining

Project Leader

Amy McMillen

Progam Coordinator
Washington, DC United States

Organization

United States Committee for FAO

Washington, DC, United States

257 Donations from 241 Donors:

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And 235 anonymous donors

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About United States Committee for FAO

Mission

The United States Committee for FAO is dedicated to helping people throughout the world to feed themselves. Its purpose is two-fold. First, to provide financial assistance for projects to aid the rural poor in developing nations, particularly projects to increase food production and access to food. Second, to raise public awareness in the United States of the need to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living and to improve agricultural productivity in developing nations.

Programs

The Growing Connection: Haiti, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and across the United States. Support to tsunami relief and small-scale farming worldwide via Telefood projects of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.

Project Personnel

Stacy Cooper - TGC Coordinator - India

Stacy Cooper has been working with the people of Bakra pet and Chinumachupali Villages in Andhra Pradesh, India for 5 years, through The Growing Connection and other development work. Professionally, Ms. Cooper’s experience is in the field of law; she has been administrative law judge for Illinois Department of Public Aid since 2002.

Amy McMillen - TGC Program Coordinator

Amy McMillen is Liaison and Project Coordinator in the Washington, DC Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. She has been working with The Growing Connection since its inception in 2003, coordinating individuals, the private sector and non-governmental organizations to champion community-based actions to sustainable solutions to poverty and hunger.

Robert Patterson - Senior Liaison Officer, FAO/UN

Robert Patterson is Senior Liaison Officer in the Washington Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). He coordinates FAO’s activities in North America with the private and non-governmental sectors, giving priority to community-based action in sustainable, people-driven local and global solutions to hunger and poverty.

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Organization

United States Committee for FAO

Washington, DC, United States

Project Leader

Amy McMillen

Progam Coordinator
Washington, DC United States

Where is this project located?

Map of Vegetable Gardens & Internet for Indian Youth