Tag: Local Livelihoods

Brazil Stalls Mega-Dam Out of Concern for Indigenous Communities

  UPDATE: The Brazilian Government cancelled the license for the dam on August 4, 2016. Read more here.  Indigenous allies in the Amazon celebrated an incremental victory last month as Brazil suspended plans to build the country’s second largest mega dam (after Belo Monte). This is a big win for our grantees, Movimiento Ipereg Ayu, a […]

Announcing the Grassroots Climate Solutions Fund

Today we are delighted to announce our ground-breaking partnership with International Development Exchange (IDEX), Grassroots International, and Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights to amplify and strengthen grassroots solutions to our global climate crisis. “Together, our four organizations have unprecedented global reach and decades of experience channeling support to effective grassroots solutions,” said Terry […]

A Mayan Village Stands Up to Big Oil in Belize

By Gary Wockner (@garywockner) Andres Coy’s face is lined, his skin the color of the muddy Temash River we just crossed. “There’s no money that can fix the river—you can’t buy back the river.” He says it with the authority he carries as the Mayan spiritual leader, the “Alcalde,” in this Belizean village. Like everywhere […]

The Green Heart of Central Africa

By Julie Dugdale (@julie_dugdale) If you’re like billions of people on the planet, you get up in the morning, go to work to provide for your family, and come home at night with something for dinner. Your picture might be framed a little differently, but the details boil down to the same thing: livelihood. A […]

South Sudanese Women Find Salvation in Stoves

It sounds like a brutally disturbing nightmare: Alone in a forest miles from home, a teenage girl fights off a man as he tries to rape her. She flees home in terror, hours on foot, afraid for her life. The next day, the scene repeats itself as she is forced to collect firewood again. Facing […]

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