Message-ID: <199510161146.JAA10567@rjo04.embratel.net.br> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 09:46:47 -0200 From: Joaquim Moura <mailto:poa-bsb@CR-DF.RNP.BR> Subject: Re: grant support To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Ola, Jack, we in Brasilia are eager to know more about you and your Colombian friends, as we develop a similar project here. Would you like to join us, VOCA and other local NGOs?>Hello,
>
>I am interested in finding out how one goes about seeking financial support for
>grass-roots development projects. I am seeking suport for a group of people
that >have worked for many years in a very sucessful series of people-centered
>projects with some of the poorest people in Colombia. THey have been organizing
>recycling cooperatives among people that were surviving scaveging in the
streets >and dumps. They have had considerable sucess and there are now viable
>cooperatives in many cities throughout Colombia.
>
>This group of development specialists have been working for many years for a
>Colombian NGO that does great work but that is not interested in working in
>places they are not already established. Several members of the team that have
>been involved in the recycling project, including the Director, are eager
to try >the model in other countries in Latin America and would like to form their own
>NGO to pursue this. These are some of the hardest working folks I know and I
>would love to help them get underway. I would appreciate any suggestions.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jack
>
>Jack Ray
>Department of Anthropology
>University of Minnesota
>612-722-1068
>
>
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