NEBF 2007 Foundation Awards

ENVIRONMENT

Ahado Youth Environment Club - Ghana
$5,000 - youth environmental association

ASMUDES - Bolivia
$8,000 - to improve the management of natural resources (soil, water and vegetation) through the installation of agroforestal systems with native and exotic plant species.

Centre for Environment, People & Culture Heritage - PNG
$8,000 - environmental awareness, education and training program on the west coast of Manus.
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Centre for Nursery & Eru Propagation - Cameroon
$9,500 - to introduce Eru cultivation

COAGWAYS - Cameroon
$4,200 - cane rat domestication and breeding program

Community Development Agency - PNG
$7,000 - is for environmental education and awareness raising program focuses in the area south of Simbu Province of Papua New Guinea.

Coral Bay Community Council - St. John's US VI
$5,800 - Bryan DeAngelis research on juvenile shark habitats

Cultural Survival - Guatemala
$10,000 - community radio program

EcoLogic - Honduras and Mexico
$10,000 - CarbonPlus initiative

EDIS-CAM - Cameroon
$6,200 - clean drinking water project

EKAS Arts- Cameroon
$5,000 - campaign through illustrations in newspaper to discourage the abusive use of pesticides and herbicides; erosion control; & proper animal husbandry

E LAW - Tanzania
$8,000 - to help protect Lake Victoria in Tanzania from mining pollution

FEDICAMP - Nicaragua
$5,000 - reforestation project

Friends of the Environment - Bahamas
$10,000 - provide environmental education to the students in grades 1-12 on Abaci

Friends of the Environment - Ghana
$5,000 - expand a mango tree planting project

FUNDECHINAMECA - El Salvador
$5,000 - environmental education program

Gate of Hope Humanity Organization - Ghana
$5,000 - to involve students in Green clubs that will provide educational awareness and tree planting.

Global Resource Alliance - Tanzania
$4,000 - To form green clubs to bring awareness to bush burning and tree cutting.

GLOFEED - Cameroon
$5,000 - environmental education program

GOSESO - Tanzania
$10,000 - to create the Gombe School of Environment & Society

GUARUMA - Honduras
$5,000 - an environmental awareness program in the Rio Cangrejal watershed

Mahonia Na Dari - PNG
$8,300 - to support the marine education awareness techniques for community based marine education trainers

Norwalk-Nagarote Sister City Program - Nicaragua
$7,300 - for a US/Nicaragua tree planting partnership.

Rockport Middle School - Rockport, MA
$5,000 -salt marsh science project

Rural Progress - Ghana
$8,000 - environmental education program in Ghana

Save America's Forest Fund - Ecuador
$5,000 - campaign to prevent new oil projects from destroying an area of the Western Amazon on the Ecuador/Peru border

Save the Grass to Save the Grasscutters - Ghana
$10,000 - To domesticate grasscutters (rodent) and prevent bush burning.

Sea Turtle Restoration Project
$7,000 - marine resources protection program

Simli Aid - Ghana
$7,500 - desertification and deforestation project with rural farmers in Northern Ghana

Sustainable Ecosystems & Agroforestry - Ghana
$7,000 - environmental education program to promote Agroforestry

Trees for the Future - Cameroon
$5,000 - reforestation project

Tunteeya Drama Group - Ghana
$5,000 - desertification and deforestation in northern Ghana through the use of radio, drama and theater

Twantoh Mixed Farming Group - Cameroon
$10,000 - for introduce intensive horticulture organic crop production to 10 schools in the Boyo Division North West Province

EDUCATION

Red Tomato - local
$3,000 -"Born and Raised Here" healthy eating program

Gloucester Adventure, Inc - Gloucester
$2,000 - development of the North American Fisheries curriculum



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