Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight

Posted April 16, 2009 by plentyinternational
Categories: climate change

Volunteers on Isle de Jean Charles

Posted April 1, 2009 by plentyinternational
Categories: Updates

crew-at-chriss2During 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 plentyinternational
Categories: 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.

More Need, Less Help – washingtonpost.com

Posted March 13, 2009 by plentyinternational
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As Indian Growth Soars, Child Hunger Persists – NYTimes.com

Posted March 13, 2009 by plentyinternational
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Victory for Women

Posted March 12, 2009 by plentyinternational
Categories: 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 Plenty Belize Newsletter

Posted March 11, 2009 by plentyinternational
Categories: Plenty Belize newsletters, Updates

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New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests – NYTimes.com

Posted January 30, 2009 by plentyinternational
Categories: Updates, climate change

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Long Droughts, Rising Seas Predicted Despite Future CO2 Curbs

Posted January 27, 2009 by plentyinternational
Categories: Updates

Credit Crisis Is Leaving Charities Low on Cash – NYTimes.com

Posted January 24, 2009 by plentyinternational
Categories: Updates