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Donation Opportunities
Great Commission Air
Solar panel/battery combos needed to set-up radios in remote villages
if Guatemala for an air ambulance services. www.GreatCommissionAir.org
Seven Generaciones
Seven Generaciones is a starting eco-neighborhood project in Arachania,
Rocha, Uruguay.
They started as 3 families and are growing building cob houses, using composting
toilets, recycling greywater, growing food, etc. They need lanterns for
when we run out of batteries, and a solar panel to recharge what they have.
They share books about sustainable living and educate children or a sustainable
future, so if you have any resources to send, they would really appreciate
it! www.7generaciones.org
El Paso Solar Energy Association
The El Paso Solar Energy Association (EPSEA) would like to have some material
written in Spanish to add to our web page, or references of books written
in that language. They would also welcome other Spanish educational material,
especially books on solar ovens and LED lighting. www.epsea.org
Ferrocement Educational Network
The Ferrocement Educational Network is a not-for-profit organization.
They have the only online ferrocement discussion group in existence and
we currently have over 170 members from around the world. www.ferrocement.net
Food for the Hungry International
Food for the Hungry Int'l in Bolivia, is devoted to helping the poor to
provide potable water, health and agricultural training and intervention,
and many infrastructure projects. They finished a 15 km irrigation
canal in a region of the altiplano to extend the growing season for 5
farming communities.
"We need to monitor the climatic factors in the area to understand the success or failure of the crops with the use of the irrigation canal. Currently we use a desktop computer at the remote station to download the data from the weather monitoring equipment. The computer is also shared by 6 agricultural and health field trainers who work 20 days a month in the area with the people. There are panels at the site but we do not use an inverter since lighting is dc and so is the radio for communication. our group has a generator that is also shared and is used to generate AC power for the computer but at times it is needed in other communities to show videos for training. If we had an inverter that stayed at the station, the computer would be accessible more often and there would be less need for constant coordination for the shared generations." www.fh.org
Gaia
Gaia is a non profit association founded in December 1991. Its founding
mission is the promotion of sustainable societies by creating human settlements
based on the practice of Permaculture systems and methods. Since 1996,
the first Ecovillage project is being developed on a 20 hectares' site
in a rural area near Buenos Aires City. They founded the Permaculture
Institute of Argentina and are currently involved in a world-wide Living
and Learning Center project. They organized a number of courses, which
have been attained by people from different sustainable projects from
all around Latin-America. They participated in the creation of the G.E.N (Global
Ecovillage Network) in 1995 and have been very active members since
then. They are ENA council members, and function as a South American contact
office. www.gaia.org
Hunger Plus
Hunger Plus, Inc. is a not-for-profit relief agency that provides food
and related supplies for emergency use and for longer term projects to
improve food security. Their mission statement is: 'To feed the hungry and
help them become self-sufficient.' They partner with individuals, NGOs,
government agencies, church and civic groups. Projects in self sufficiency
focus on food preservation, agriculture, water, health, education, housing
and technology. www.hungerplus.org
Jovenes con Fronteras
Jovenes con Fronteras is an organization that provides vocational training
to young people in Quito, Ecuador.www.jsf.com
Ocean Arks International
Ocean Arks International is researching new applications of the Restorer
technology which is a floating platform that supports plants to help treat
polluted bodies of water or wastewater lagoons. They are interested in exploring
the possibility of growing alternative paper pulp plants on the Restorers
and harvesting them for use in production. This would essentially turn
a wastewater treatment system into a paper producing nursery. They have
several funded projects that could incorporate this idea including treatment
of waste in a sewage canal in China and a wastewater treatment lagoon
for a poultry processing plant in Maryland. www.oceanarks.org
The Renewable Energy Resource Center
The Renewable Energy Resource Center, a non profit organization that works
to educate the public about renewable energy and energy efficiency technology,
is trying to put together some solar energy equipment for demonstration
purposes. www.rerc-vt.org
ShareCircle
The purpose of SHARECircle (or simply SHARE) is to help save lives, create
economic opportunities, restore hope and forge a better tomorrow for the
orphans of single mothers, and widows of war, and civil strife. SHARE
is looking for water purification and solar lighting equipment for 10
offices in different locations around Angola. www.sharecircle.org
State College Friends School
The State College Friends School has recently established a Green Energy
Council made up of parents, staff, and interested community members setting
a goal of bringing more sustainable energy to the school. They are looking
for a wind speed indicator to assess wind power as an alternative for
their school. www.statecollegefriendsschool.org
Tara Mandala
Tara Mandala is a Buddhist retreat center, as well as a 501(c)-3 tax deductible
religious organization. The organization conducts instructional retreats
on their property each summer. www.taramandala.org
Gift of the Givers Foundation
The Gift of the Givers Foundation is a South African based foundation
which works with local artisans to produce goods for sale. They are looking
for equipment that will take plastic bottles and convert them to beads
for African products (for cultural artesania). www.giftofthegivers.co.za
GOAL Ireland
GOAL's mission is to respond quickly and efficiently with emergency supplies.
They believe the money collected must be spent directly on the people
who need it most.
To do that, they keep their administration costs to a bare minimum. They also
believe it is essential to train local people so that they can continue
to provide healthcare and other services long after GOAL has left the
country. Each of their projects is staffed largely by local people. Currently,
over 2000 local staff work on GOAL programmes worldwide. www.goal.ie
Boulder-Lhasa Sister City Project
Boulder-Lhasa Sister City Project (BLSCP) is a private, non-profit, 501(c)(3)
organization formed in 1986 in Boulder, Colorado. BLSCP is helping Tibetans
in Tibet through programs in Solar Electricity, Health Care, and Education.
In the rural areas of Lhasa Prefecture, 70% of the Tibetan families have
no electricity. BLSCP
conducts visits to rural Tibet to demonstrate solar PV technology for
enterprises, schools, medical clinics, monasteries, and homes and to develop
methods for prevention of the fatal parasite disease. Their delegations
include solar energy specialists, medical personnel, and others, some
of whom are visiting a developing area for the first time. www.bouder-tibet.org
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