Category: Spotlights

Interview with Lucille Apis Overhoff, New Greengrants Advisor

Greengrants’ new Pacific Islands advisor brings a broad range of experience as environmental activist, administrator and scholar, but also a lifetime of respect for “kepikipik kan ” — “the gift of creation.”

The “Alarm of Pesticides” in Armenia

by Molly Stuart, Greengrants Intern ————————- ARMENIAN WOMEN FOR HEALTH AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT (AWHHE) Greengrants has provided three grants to this organization, most recently to fund travel costs for a representative to attend a key meeting of Pesticide Action Network – Europe, and to support AWHHE’s efforts to strengthen regional networks and share information and […]

Pakistan: Fighting for People’s Rights in the Chashma Region

by Brendan Snow, Greengrants Intern _________________ MAUJ and the RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY INSTITUTE Greengrants has provided a series of grants to help these organizations in their work regarding the Chashma Right Bank irrigation project. The most recent grant was for $5,000 to Mauj in 2006. _________________ A huge irrigation project might sound like a great […]

Interview with Nelda Hidalgo Sanchez, New Greengrants Central America Coordinator.

On August 18, 2006, Journey Herbeck of the Greengrants staff in Boulder interviewed Nelda Hidalgo Sanchez, Greengrants’ new coordinator for Central America. Nelda, a sociologist from Nicaragua, has a wealth of experience related to rural development.

Interview with Father Marco Arana

Father Marco Arana of Cajamarca, Peru, is founder of the Group for Training and Intervention for Sustainable Development (GRUFIDES). GRUFIDES helps community leaders and local residents monitor environmental impacts in their communities.

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