Nepal Trip Report by John Vavruska
Chupar Update
Nepal Earthquake Relief, Halcok village
“As you know, Nepal has suffered a terrible earthquake – in fact two earthquakes, one on April 25 and the second on May 12th. Our son Vajra was in Kathmandu, where he was born, for both quakes and witnessed some of the terrible destruction and loss of life in the Durbar square of Kathmandu where […]
Pine Ridge Gardens
In May Plenty Board Member Robert Reifel traveled to Pine Ridge Reservation with volunteer Alex Miller to help with the garden project. As is often the case weather created problems. Initially heavy rains flooded the newly tilled gardens and then they had seven inches of snow. Nevertheless, tools […]
Help for a village in Nepal
John Vavruska, a friend of Plenty Board member, Robert Reifel, is an engineer and photographer in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal. John, who speaks Nepali, is a close friend of Uttam and Budu Rai, originally from Nepal but now U.S. citizens living in Santa Fe. Budu’s parents live in the […]
Spring-Summer Bulletin 2015
2015 Spring-Summer Bulletin letter Plenty Bulletin Spring:Summer 2015
Kids To The Country Winter Program Dec. 19, 2014
Kids To The Country 425 Farm Road #3 Summertown TN 38483 ph and fx: 931-964-4391 kidstothecountry@gmail.com INVITATION Kids To The Country Winter Program 2014 You are cordially invited to join us Friday, December 19, 2014 for the Kids To The Country Holiday Gift-making Workshop and pre-Kwanzaa celebration at the Spruce Street Baptist Church, 405 Spruce Street […]
Plenty Bulletin Fall/Winter 2014
November 2014 Dear Friends of Plenty, You’ve probably heard by now that Plenty’s founder and mentor, Stephen Gaskin passed away on July first of this year, right before our annual Plenty Board meeting. He hadn’t been directly involved with Plenty over the past few years but, without his original inspiration and vision, Plenty would […]
Pine Ridge Reservation Winter Emergency
Pine Ridge Statistics • Unemployment rate of 80-90% • Per capita income of $4,000 • 8 Times the United States rate of diabetes • 5 Times the United States rate of cervical cancer • Twice the rate of heart disease • 8 Times the United States rate of Tuberculosis • Alcoholism rate estimated as high […]
Books To Kids on the Gulf Coast
On October 4, 2014 Plenty’s Books To Kids project distributed hundreds of children’s books in Native Communities along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. Since 2007, Books To Kids has given away more than 150,000 children’s books in communities recovering from disasters and poverty from the Gulf Coast to Appalachia to metropolitan New York.
Gofundme campaign for Imani House and the Ebola crisis.
Plenty has started a gofundme campaign to help support the Imani House clinic in Liberia as it deals with the Ebola virus. 100% of any donation goes to Imani House. Here’s the link to the campaign http://www.gofundme.com/eu5s2w