Former NPA rebel Clarita is fearful that her son will repeat history and join Communist insurgents in the mountains. How can Operation Blessing help her and other rebel returnees?

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SLINT-Uganda’s mission is to empower people to secure sustainable incomes, food security and improved quality of life while at the same time maintaining the diversity and long-term
productivity of the supporting natural resource base.

It is well understood that the economies of most African countries draw upon land-based activities such as agriculture.
Butikiro, one of the poorest villages in the Kiboga district of Uganda,and yet because the villagers recognize land as a vital natural resource, and a basis for subsistence, they have gone to work on land-use activities: the Fruit and Vegetable Growing for Sustainable Livelihoods project and the Gayaza
Smallholders Beekeeping project with support from SLINT-Uganda members and on-line volunteers on the
Global Neighbour Network. – created at http://animoto.com

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Part 1 – The most recent school supply program shows the packing of the boxes by our volunteers from the Christian Development Center in Tagaytay before we go on the boat to the Island of Mindoro. You will see us landing on the island and then see the grass roof of the Barahan Mission center. It was raining so Natalie is out on the road getting soaked. Next segment goes to the Mangyan mountain tribe gathering where we are in partnership. We helped rebuild the grass church you will see and gave funds for their first livelihood project to support tribal pastors.

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Our Technology and Livelihood Education project last 2008, our own music video using an OPM song. We chose Kailan by MYMP.

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An inspiring video of Street Kids International’s street youth livelihood project in Kenya (DANISH language version)
www.streetkids.org

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As part of Living Earth’s Urban Livelihoods Project, the community of Lira (Kampala, Uganda) recognise the challenge they face of trying to derive a livelihood from the environment whilst ensuring that the environment is used in a sustainable manner. Successful initiatives include ‘The Tin Man of Lira’ who turns scrap metal into saucepans, school bells, scales….

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Dear Dr. Peter
CEO
ACAIR

Re: Proposed Tipai Mukh Dam by India – Violation of UN Convention on the Law of the Non navigational Uses of International Watercourses-1997

Honorable Dr. Peter :

Good day from Sydney, Australia. We, the downstream people of international river Barak, are writing this letter to draw your attention to the gross violation of UN Convention and recommendations of World Commission on Dams (WCD) by Indian Government. We are afraid that if Tipaimukh Dam is built by India on International Water courses at downstream of the confluence of Barak and Tuivai rivers near Tipaimukh village and it remains unabated, it would pose a great threat to the nature, environment and peoples of Bangladesh and turn Bangladesh into a desert. We also afraid if this injustice and Water crime continue, you might see the rise of political unrest and extremism in Bangladesh as we know all that injustice begets extremism.

The unilateral construction of Tipaimukh dam by India on this international river Barak is a violation of the article 9 of Bangladesh-India Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, 1996. The Tipaimukh Dam project was entirely developed and approved without informing the government of Bangladesh or involving its people in any meaningful exercise to assess the downstream impacts of the dam. Bangladesh was not invited to participate, fully and actively in the decision-making process as a key stakeholder. This is clearly a gross violation of co-riparian rights of Bangladesh.

Dear High Commissioner, Rivers, watersheds and aquatic ecosystems are the biological engines and blood vessels of the planet. They are the basis for life and the livelihoods of local communities. Dams transform landscapes and create risks of irreversible impacts.

It is a water crime and one kind of state sponsored environmental terrorism against one hundred and forty million people of Bangladesh that is set to defeat justice, human rights and ecological systems of our motherland.

Indeed, today we are living in a world which is very volatile and vulnerable. By ignoring the emerging unlawful activities on international rivers, the international community can not escape from their obligation and duties to wards humanity, nature.

For your action against these inhumane activities we have enclosed relevant reports.

We must not betray our conscience!

Sincerely,

Ertaz Chowdhury, MIEAust, CPEng, NPER
Representative of Save Bangladesh, Sydney, Australia

Good way to lower unemployment
Bring out some inner city youths and tell that they get 20 dollars for every tree they cut down
TIMBER
BTW only read the ?
the rest looked to F&N boring

The video is part of the Global Nature Fund’s project to restore mangrove forests and livelihoods in Sri Lanka after the Tsunami of 2004.

The project aims at the re-establishment of livelihoods of affected communities, restoration of Tsunami affected areas and long-term environmental education. The main target groups are about 1,000 families from poor communities in the lake areas of Bolgoda, Maduganga and Madampe in Sri Lanka. A central goal is to improve the peoples self-reliance, mitigate poverty effects, increase long-term access of people to sustainable use of natural resources and protect the local communities against potential disasters by the implementation of precautionary measures.

Among the main activities are the installation of mangrove nurseries, the re-plantation of damaged mangrove forests and the establishment and operation of regional education centres. The latter serves to educate and inform the local people of negative impacts from logging in forested areas and coral reef harvesting in order to reduce or avoid them as far as possible. The project results will be transferred to the Tsunami affected Pulicat region in India.

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Dear Dr. Peter
CEO
ACAIR

Re: Proposed Tipai Mukh Dam by India – Violation of UN Convention on the Law of the Non navigational Uses of International Watercourses-1997

Honorable Dr. Peter :

Good day from Sydney, Australia. We, the downstream people of international river Barak, are writing this letter to draw your attention to the gross violation of UN Convention and recommendations of World Commission on Dams (WCD) by Indian Government. We are afraid that if Tipaimukh Dam is built by India on International Water courses at downstream of the confluence of Barak and Tuivai rivers near Tipaimukh village and it remains unabated, it would pose a great threat to the nature, environment and peoples of Bangladesh and turn Bangladesh into a desert. We also afraid if this injustice and Water crime continue, you might see the rise of political unrest and extremism in Bangladesh as we know all that injustice begets extremism.

The unilateral construction of Tipaimukh dam by India on this international river Barak is a violation of the article 9 of Bangladesh-India Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, 1996. The Tipaimukh Dam project was entirely developed and approved without informing the government of Bangladesh or involving its people in any meaningful exercise to assess the downstream impacts of the dam. Bangladesh was not invited to participate, fully and actively in the decision-making process as a key stakeholder. This is clearly a gross violation of co-riparian rights of Bangladesh.

Dear High Commissioner, Rivers, watersheds and aquatic ecosystems are the biological engines and blood vessels of the planet. They are the basis for life and the livelihoods of local communities. Dams transform landscapes and create risks of irreversible impacts.

It is a water crime and one kind of state sponsored environmental terrorism against one hundred and forty million people of Bangladesh that is set to defeat justice, human rights and ecological systems of our motherland.

Indeed, today we are living in a world which is very volatile and vulnerable. By ignoring the emerging unlawful activities on international rivers, the international community can not escape from their obligation and duties to wards humanity, nature.

For your action against these inhumane activities we have enclosed relevant reports.

We must not betray our conscience!

Sincerely,

Ertaz Chowdhury, MIEAust, CPEng, NPER
Representative of Save Bangladesh, Sydney, Australia

Wow! this is terrible. Looks like the people only think of their own profits by building a dam and they don’t seem to care at all about destroying 140 million peoples lives in Bangladesh. I hope this does not turn into a war, but if they do not open up their eyes and use their conscience after this letter I think that force may be needed. Do they not realize that the earth’s resources are already running out as it is? Thanks to global warming many species are diminishing and the earths population of humans continues to grow (many scientists believe we reached our carrying capacity 5 years ago-amount of resources available to sustain the earth’s population of life- and we are slowly going to start feeling the effects).

I hope that justice will be done soon!

An audio visual presentation of the USAID-funded Education Quality and Access for Learning and Livelihood Skills (EQuALLS2) Project. The project offers a core set of interventions aimed at increasing access to quality education for elementary schoolchildren, and relevant learning and livelihood skills training for out-of-school youth in Region 9, Region 12, and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. The EQuALLS2 project is implemented under the coordination of the Education Development Center (EDC) in partnership with a team of international and local organizations with expertise in education and youth development in Mindanao. Project interventions are delivered in partnership with the Department of Education (DepED) ARMM, together with local government units and education stakeholders in the community.

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