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Meeting Community Needs
TTF gave 300 head of livestock to nomads in Mongolia in 2007 after a devastating flood.
OUTREACH AND EDUCATION PROGRAM
This program includes three components:
- Remote Outreach Cinema Campaigns (ROCC) helps community residents tell their own stories in their own languages. We create films documenting community successes and hard work. The films reinforce local involvement with TTF projects. Final productions are shown on a large screen (or the side of a building) and viewed collectively by the community. Our first film is entitled “Buddha and the Big Fish.”
- The Science Education Project creates opportunities for remote and
under-funded communities to engage children in environmental stewardship. In Mongolia, we have established nine eco-clubs and the first environmental education summer camp for kids on the banks of the Uur River. This program exposes children to water quality concerns, taimen tagging and research, and a variety of ecological principles and environmental issues. We will expand these in Mongolia as well as in future project sites.
The Community Conservation Training Project provides information on conservation issues to community members, teachers and religious leaders. We offer community lectures and workshops; provide scholarships to young monks interested in ecology; support an environmental education program at the Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar; run a free summer camp for kids in the Eg-Uur Valley; and help monks find conservation messages in ancient sutras. As TTF grows in scope, it will assist Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, animist and Muslim leaders to assess messages pertaining to environmental sensitivity in sacred texts.
