Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight
Posted April 16, 2009 by plentyinternationalCategories: climate change
Volunteers on Isle de Jean Charles
Posted April 1, 2009 by plentyinternationalCategories: Updates
During the week of March 22, volunteers with Plenty International and United Peace Relief did rehab work on a house in the Choctaw-Biloxi-Chitmacha community of Isle de Jean Charles on the Gulf Coast southwest of New Orleans.
Plenty in the Gulf
Posted April 1, 2009 by plentyinternationalCategories: Updates
Since hurricane Katrina and the failed levees devastated New Orleans at the end of August, 2005, Plenty has been working along the Gulf Coast to help residents recover their homes Most recently we have been helping members of the native Choctaw-Biloxi-Chitimacha communities in the Bayou region southwest of New Orleans in Pointe-aux-Chenes and Isle de Jean Charles. Here is an interview with an elder living on Isle de Jean Charles, Wenceslaus Billiot, who grew up on the Isle and remembers when the Isle was covered in trees and was protected by barrier islands and wetlands before the intrusion of the big oil companies in the 1960s and 1970s.done
More Need, Less Help – washingtonpost.com
Posted March 13, 2009 by plentyinternationalCategories: Updates
More Need, Less Help – washingtonpost.com
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As Indian Growth Soars, Child Hunger Persists – NYTimes.com
Posted March 13, 2009 by plentyinternationalCategories: Updates
Victory for Women
Posted March 12, 2009 by plentyinternationalCategories: women and children issues
Victory in Washington for Women Everywhere
The UN Family Planning Association (UNFPA) reports that “the newly passed 2009 federal budget includes a $50 million contribution to the UNFPA. President Obama has signaled his intention to restore this funding to UNFPA so this is truly a great day for women around the world. After seven years in which no U.S. government funds were released to UNFPA – a period of time which saw the deaths of over 3 million women from preventable complications of pregnancy or childbirth – we will now, as the President said, “join 180 other donor nations working collaboratively to reduce poverty, improve the health of women and children, prevent HIV/AIDS and provide family planning assistance to women in 154 countries.””
New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests – NYTimes.com
Posted January 30, 2009 by plentyinternationalCategories: Updates, climate change
Tags: climate change
Long Droughts, Rising Seas Predicted Despite Future CO2 Curbs
Posted January 27, 2009 by plentyinternationalCategories: Updates
Credit Crisis Is Leaving Charities Low on Cash – NYTimes.com
Posted January 24, 2009 by plentyinternationalCategories: Updates
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