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Any ideas for a Kenyan? (fwd)
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Lawrence F. London, Jr., Venaura Farm, Chapel Hill, NC USA
mailto:london@sunSITE.unc.edu - http://sunSITE.unc.edu/InterGarden
Organic Agriculture-Farmscaping-CSA-Permaculture-Renewable Energy Information
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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:20:03 -0400
From: BrownMtn@aol.com
To: sustag-principles@amani.ces.ncsu.edu
Subject: Any ideas for a Kenyan?
I am mentoring a young man from Kenya who is here in Seattle, USA as a member
of an international conservation corps until Nov. 15, 1996. His name is
Peter Imbo, and for the past two years he has been the volunteer leader of a
project called WISEP, Widow Integrated Support and Exchange Program in his
home village out side of Nairobi.
WISEP's goals are to teach widows, who culturally cannot work in a
traditional "job" to learn sustainable agriculture to first be able to raise
enough food to support their families and then hopefully raise enough extra
income to actually make some profit. Peter is also leading a campaign to
reforest the area around his village and promote the use of more efficient
wood stoves.
I am helping Peter achieve two things: an internship in Sustainable
Agriculture beginning in November '96 lasting for 3-6 months and connections
with American foundations who are interested in funding such a program.
Please let me know if your program could possible supply him with an
internship or some funding or have suggestions for other programs that would
be interested. I look forward to your response.
Sincerely, Thomas Donlea