Ojai Noble Peace Prize Recipients Back from Africa -- Will Present Progam on Ending World Hunger
Sunday, December 13, 5:00 pm, at Meditation Mount
Lyn Hebenstreit and Tara Blasco, directors of the Ojai based non-profit Global Resource Alliance (GRA) and recipients of Ojai's 2008 Noble Peace Prize, are back from their tenth field trip to Africa. They will present an inspiring two-hour program entitled, "Ending World Hunger," on Sunday, December 13, 5:00 pm, at Meditation Mount.
Lyn and Tara will give a brief overview of hunger worldwide and share their most recent two month experience in rural East Africa. Their slide-show presentation will present a first hand view of poverty and explore how to empower people to break the cycle of hunger, poverty and disease.
Practical solutions to the problem of hunger will be drawn from GRA's many years of work with rural African communities, including exciting new water sources, permaculture, solar cooking and natural remedies for the prevention and treatment of malaria.
Worldwide, over a billion people still walk miles every day to fetch water for their daily needs – water polluted by livestock, infested with parasites and contaminated by bacteria like cholera, typhoid and dysentery. Many people are so poor that buying charcoal or wood to boil the water before use is out of the question. Without safe drinking water, health, hope, progress and dignity are almost impossible.
In cooperation with local, community based organizations, Global Resource Alliance pursues a natural, holistic and sustainable approach to these urgent issues in the Lake Victoria region of Tanzania and other areas in East Africa.
GRA believes that empowering local communities to address pressing social, economic and environmental challenges according to their own vision and their own creative potential is the key to lasting solutions.
Their programs include educational scholarships, the promotion of microfinance, water resource development, organic gardening, malaria prevention, alternative health, alternative energy, sustainable building and direct assistance to orphans.
Tara Blasco will share her personal experience contracting malaria the day before she was to teach a workshop on a new protocol for treating this disease. She turned her illness into a teaching opportunity and self-administered the protocol during the workshop. The lab specialist who diagnosed the malaria, attended her workshop and asked her to return in the morning to see how the treatment worked. Less than 20 hours later, the specialist was shocked to find Tara's blood to be completely free of the malaria parasite!
This program is offered by donation. Beautiful baskets, handmade by African women, will be available for purchase as seasonal gifts.
Meditation Mount is located at 10340 Reeves Rd, Ojai. Please pre register online www.meditation.com or call 805-646-5508.
"Ending Hunger," is one of a new series of Meditation Mount programs entitled "Inspired Response to a World at Risk -- Acting Together for the Good of All."
For additional information on the work of Global Resource Alliance, please visit www.globalresourcealliance.org or contact Lyn Hebenstreit at 646-4439.
Photographs
Solar cooking workshop at GRA offices in Musoma, Tanzania.
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GRA strikes water in Masaruru Village, Tanzania.
GRA permaculture Plot in Kinesi Village, Tanzania.
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Comments (6)
singing the end of the PredatorShip Economy of Combat, the Awakened Upwelling of the Economy of Global Family ... the MOTHER RIVER OF LIFE is us ... each a song, a wave, a fish, a dragon SWIMMING TOGETHER up the WaterFall of Enlightement/Evolution ...
WE Can ONLY SWIM, SING, KNOW, DANCE together ... one around the other!
without the others, we fall back to our ignorance and pre-consciousness ...
only in swimming together IS there a RIVER, is there a BODY, is there a REBIRTHING ...
only TOGETHER ...
Comment #1 Posted by: millennium | December 12, 2009 10:03 AM
Will post more photos when I have time to find those instructions for making the image smaller.
The Solar cookers shown in above photo are amazing -- every household should have one, even here in Ojai, in case the power fails.
Lyn and Tara have also been distributing solar flashlights. This allows people without electricity to read and study at night.
(I have been using a solar flashlight for a few months... so easy to recharge in the sun. Now will see how long the charge lasts on these rainy days. So far it's totally reliable.)
Comment #2 Posted by: Suza | December 12, 2009 10:20 AM
Over 101,184,431.00 people have died from malaria since the restriction of DDT in the 1970's because of so called "environmentalist" .
How is it that Gaia can be painted an Earthmother nurture-figure whilst demanding an annual sacrifice of roughly two million, four hundred and thirty thousand infants, pending mothers and their untallied unborn? This is not ecology. This is not conservation. This is genocide.
Comment #3 Posted by: Brian | December 12, 2009 02:19 PM
Tyler,
Okay, so maybe it's not the anonymous posts after all. Maybe we just need to address the issue of total incoherence.
Comment #4 Posted by: spk | December 12, 2009 02:34 PM
Just like the current manipulation of data by the scientist / ideologues at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit and at Penn State, the studies used for the demonizing of DDT were twisted and misrepresented. With the result being the death of millions of poor Africans.
Rethinking DDT
The Lies of Rachel Carson
Comment #5 Posted by: Brian Cox | December 12, 2009 09:03 PM
See what I'm talking about.
Comment #6 Posted by: spk | December 12, 2009 09:33 PM