PROJECTS SUPPORTED BY WMRPCV
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Vanuatu Earthquake Disaster Relief 2024-2025
Recommended by WMRPCV Member and President of Friends of Vanuatu, Andrew Beltz (2003-06)
Supporting the VANUATU EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF through Friends of Vanuatu provides our donors a unique opportunity to directly fund Earthquake disaster victims affected by the recent 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Port Vila, Efate Island, Vanuatu. The donated funds will be used to fund water resources, food and other immediate needs of local communities.
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MAMAKA PROJECT - FRIENDS OF SIERRA LEONE - Recommended by WMRPCV member Chris Siegler (1968-70)
The Mamaka Project for Food Security Through Agricultural Development began in April of 2022, under the direction of Ahmed Muckson Sesay and the Organization for Peace. Solar power will greatly improve the profitability of the processing center because we won’t be dependent on price inflation in petro, as well as not subjecting employees to air pollution from diesel powered equipment.
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Paraguay Wildlife Project (Now fully Funded!) - Peace Corps Partnership
This project is led by Nicholas Gengler, a Volunteer from Montana
This grant aims to equip a local organization with the necessary tools to conduct biodiversity monitoring in one of Paraguay's crucial conservation areas. Despite their long-standing efforts to carry out these activities, the organization has lacked the resources to do so effectively. This grant will support this organization by providing camera trap equipment, while the Volunteer will train their staff in fieldwork and data management practices.
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Learning Outside - Classroom in the School Garden -- Dominican Republic Peace Corps Partnership Project by Sherley Arias-Pimentel, Volunteer from New Jersey
This grant will support the transformation of the school garden into an inclusive, educational space accessible to students of all abilities. The garden will serve as a dynamic, hands-on learning tool to teach agricultural skills, promote environmental stewardship, and encourage social responsibility.
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Donation Highlights 2023
Morocco Earthquake Relief :
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PCC4R Grant - Our efforts to make refugees feel at home in our community have been recognized and rewarded with a grant from PCC4R to support our work in Missoula.
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Green Garden Project - Albania The purpose of this Peace Corps Partnership project is to build a greenhouse and an irrigation system at a local school. The greenhouse will be used for class lessons, environmental activities, health education and other climate change resilience and adaptation activities.
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Donation Highlights 2022:
After more than two years of careful monitoring, evaluating, adapting, and planning, the Peace Corps is returning Volunteers to service on a rolling basis until all posts have reopened. To support these efforts, the WMRPCVs have donated to Peace Corps Country Funds for Costa Rica, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
After more than two years of careful monitoring, evaluating, adapting, and planning, the Peace Corps is returning Volunteers to service on a rolling basis until all posts have reopened. To support these efforts, the WMRPCVs have donated to Peace Corps Country Funds for Costa Rica, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
Soft Landing Missoula is a community-based nonprofit committed to working with refugee and immigrant families as they build new lives in Missoula.
World Central Kitchen is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. We build resilient food systems with locally led solutions.
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This is a special, emergency fundraiser, for displaced Ukrainians coming to Moldova. The Government of Moldova and local organizations are doing a remarkable job supporting the influx of refugees.The Friends of Moldova is in a positions to collaborate with Peace Corps Moldova, local Moldovan and RPCV businesses to support Ukrainian refugees. |
DONATIONS 2021:The Western MT RPCVs were able to provide the final funding for the Mozambique Health Program project referred by RPCV evacuee Krista Morine. It is now fully funded.
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Mozambique Health Program
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Friends of Moldova: To help support small, community driven projects in Moldova. Referred by Yathi Yatheepan (RPCV Moldova)
DONATIONS 2020 - As 2020 progressed, several Western MT RPCV members contributed extra funds to our group. The sentiment was that we would be able to use these funds to assist with Peace Corps projects left undone due to the COVID-19 evacuation. The National Peace Corps Association has provided an avenue for groups and individuals to do just this. The Western MT RPCVs have donated to several projects, some of which are now fully funded.
Tree Nursery and Women’s Garden Water Distribution System in The Gambia- RPCV Natalie Mango This project is working to install a water distribution system for a tree nursery and women's garden center. *Fully Funded
Construction of Elementary School Bathrooms in Guatemala - RPCV Alex Brenner
These bathrooms will provide a clean, sanitary environment for the students to stay healthy, attend class more often and learn about the importance of hygiene. *Fully Funded
Sanitation Improvement in Panama -RPCV Andrea Ramirez
**I hope this email finds you well! My name is Andrea Ramirez, I wanted to thank you for your valuable donation to our Sanitation Improvement project in Panama!
Best regards, Andrea Ramírez-Puentes RPCV Panamá '18-'20
With improved sanitation access in an indigenous area, the natural resources surrounding the community will become safer to use, specifically water, making the vulnerable population less prone to get life threatening diseases and give the rest of the population a healthier lifestyle. *Fully Funded
Egg Producers Project in Guatemala - RPCV Will Penner
This egg production project provides an income generation and entrepreneurial opportunity to 14 women in a Guatemalan community. *Fully Funded
Clean Water for Schools and Communities in Southern Madagascar - RPCV Gabriel Sandler Donations will be used to build rain harvesters at two schools in Fort Dauphin, southeast Madagascar. *Fully Funded
**To all the supporters of “Clean Water for Schools and Communities in Southern Madagascar,”
This is Gabriel Sandler, reaching out with news about our fundraiser with the National Peace Corps Association and Tatirano Social Enterprise. There will be official updates from NPCA, but I wanted to personally thank all of you, and share the exciting news: We are fully funded!!!!!! With your donations, along with NPCA's support, we can start building two rain harvesters at two schools in southern Madagascar. Your efforts and support will become clean water for students and communities for decades to come. Besides water, these harvesters will create professional and educational opportunities. When I was evacuated from Madagascar and my time with the Peace Corps closed, I was devastated. But I saw an opportunity to keep working. The best part of my job was supporting community leaders and effective organizations. Tatirano certainly represents that. I’m so grateful that you’ve joined me in this mission, and I’m so excited to show you the results. In the meantime, if you want to see Tatirano’s real-time impact, you can view the stats and records for all their active harvesters by clicking here. I can’t wait for our two new ones to be added to the list!
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2019 - The Family Literacy Initiative (FLI) is sponsored by the Friends of Liberia, taking a family approach to literacy. It recognizes that parents are a child's first teacher and helps bring this program to three communities in Liberia. Many thanks to WMRPCV member Tony Hoyt (Liberia 1967-69 and Guatemala 1974-75) for recommending this amazing program!
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Zambia Health Post Project Update - 2019
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Dear Western Montana RPCV's,
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South Africa: 2018
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Solar Cookers International - 2015
Solar cookers were donated to two volunteers in Costa Rica and one in Botswana who joined the Peace Corps through the University of MT in Missoula. |
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Thank You from the Senegal "Let Girls Learn" Conference
Thanks so much for your support!
Sarah McJury PCV Senegal, West Africa *Note: This is a Peace Corps Partnership Program that the Western MT RPCVs helped finance in December 2014. |
Dear Western MT RPCVs,
Thanks for helping to make the Youth Entrepreneurship Training possible! On February 27, 2015 we concluded the 5-day training in Port, Senegal. Eighteen participants graduated from the program, representing many community and women’s groups. As of March 17, 2015, three of these groups had begun production for their businesses, one individual had opened a boutique, and several more were far along in the planning and financing stages of their projects. |
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Young Men's Leadership Workshop - Macedonia
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Thank you card from The Cameroon Computer Center Project.
May 15, 2013
Dear Western MT RPCV’s, We would like to extend to you our sincerest thanks for your contribution to the Mciganga Computer Center Project and your support of Peace Corps Cameroon.
We believe that this new center has the potential to improve countless lives in our community and offer opportunities for growth which have never before been possible. We could not have made it this far without your help! As we say in Cameroon, “On est ensemble!” (“We are together”).
The Megacom Computer Center Executive Board
Charla Hough – U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer
(Peace Corps Partnership Project)
Dear Western MT RPCV’s, We would like to extend to you our sincerest thanks for your contribution to the Mciganga Computer Center Project and your support of Peace Corps Cameroon.
We believe that this new center has the potential to improve countless lives in our community and offer opportunities for growth which have never before been possible. We could not have made it this far without your help! As we say in Cameroon, “On est ensemble!” (“We are together”).
The Megacom Computer Center Executive Board
Charla Hough – U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer
(Peace Corps Partnership Project)