
Martín Von Hildebrand: An Audacious Plan for the Amazon
Gaia Amazonas supports Indigenous people living in the Amazon in the construction of environmental and cultural strategies based on their
At the age of 12, Joe Madiath organized farmworkers employed by his father to lobby for better treatment and living conditions. Thus began Gram Vikas (“village development”), an award-winning NGO based in Odisha, India. It works with rural and tribal communities in India and Africa, to help poor, marginalized people achieve a dignified quality of life. Joe’s father responded to his activism by sending him away to a boarding school, but years later became supportive of his son’s work. “The hidden agenda was to address the problem of exclusion, but the open agenda was to see that people got quality water and sanitation facilities in rural areas,” says Joe. “I would like to create a gender sensitive, egalitarian, equity-based society where people live in relative comfort, with dignity.”
Gaia Amazonas supports Indigenous people living in the Amazon in the construction of environmental and cultural strategies based on their
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Jockin Arputham was an Indian community leader and activist, known for his campaigning work of more than 40 years on
Echoing Green supports emerging social and environmental entrepreneurs and helps kickstart their ideas through seed funding, and an intensive 18-month