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Where do you work in Thailand and why?
Plant With Purpose works primarily with ethnic minorities in Northern Thailand, often displaced from Myanmar, Laos, or Southern China. These groups often have ambiguous legal status and have difficulty finding...
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Where do you work in Tanzania and why?
In 2004, we started working in Tanzania specifically in the Kilimanjaro region. Mt. Kilimanjaro is a key biodiversity and environmental spot in Africa, home to different groups of people that...
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Podcast, Updates
The Roots of Everything
...desperation. Both Christi and Philippe now work in the Plant With Purpose development department. They also cohost the GrassRoots podcast. In the debut episode, both trace their own roots to...
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The savings activities seem very effective. Why do you do environmental work instead of simply focusing on this area?
Saving groups and environmental restoration go hand-in-hand, especially in the context of the communities where we work. Environmental restoration leads to better crop yields, which helps increase income that can...
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COVID-19
Finding Surprising Blessings in the COVID-19 Pandemic (an update from Scott Sabin)
...Plant with Purpose model aims to help people through an economic crisis like the one we’re facing today. They aren't dependent on a bunch of Americans. Their own local teams...
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All, Meditations
How is God at work in the environment?
...branches in their hands…” At a time where systems marginalize many cultures or people groups, this is our reminder that God calls us in the opposite direction. In effect, environmental...
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Updates
A message from our CEO regarding Covid-19
...locally led and implemented, much of it should be able to continue with little interruption. Savings groups will still get trained by community agents. Agricultural instruction will still take place....
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All, Sustainability, Updates
Sustainability cannot be achieved without indigenous leadership.
...the cultural memory of our Aboriginal groups,” declared Bhiamie Eckford-Williamson, a Euahlayi indigenous research associate in Australia. “The burning of these scarred trees is one very profound example of that...
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Cindy Outlaw
Cindy Outlaw joined the board in 2003 and helped pioneer the organization's expansion into Tanzania. She was introduced to Plant With Purpose by CEO Scott Sabin, a fellow member of...
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Matthew Ellingson
Matthew is the Principle Strategic Humanitarian Alliances Advisor, at Compassion Int’l. Matt first became acquainted with Plant With Purpose while in university in the 1990s. He has more than 27...
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All, Living Sustainably, Meditations
Earth Day celebrates a chance to love your neighbor
One of our greatest purposes is to love our neighbor as ourselves Many of us are familiar with the two greatest commandments, as found in Matthew 22: To love God...
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COVID-19
You are building resilient communities during COVID-19 in Thailand and the DRC
...build an average of 2.5 months expenses in savings! Community members have built these savings through their own earned income by participating in community savings groups that you've helped us...
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The Geotag Debate
...disabled persons; for a number of social and systematic reasons. As new groups are introduced to the outdoors, many advocates see extreme opposition to geotagging as a way of gatekeeping....
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Meditations
Abundance is a repeated theme throughout Scripture and Creation
...there not countless present-day examples of people giving from scarcity, only to discover they have an abundance. That is one of the reasons savings groups often feel miraculous to me....
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COVID-19
You are building resilient communities during COVID-19 in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
...time. Community savings groups provide access to funds that allow members to plant and grow their own food. In many ways, they are a lifeline. But can they meet without...
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