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Saturday, April 12th, 2008Thanks to our two latest donors to future Friends Project projects:Dawn Robinson in Springwater, NY and Harvey and Martha Rhody of Fairport, NY. Both attended the “Amazon: A Fragile Balance” exhibit and decided to contribute to future improvement projects. Our grand total is now about $700.It doesn’t sound like so much, but we did amazing things with less than $500 in Peru. I’m examining a few projects in the Iquitos area and Nueva Esperanza so we can use this money; and show more p eople what we can do together and hopefully raise even more money for the next project.
“Amazon: A Fragile Balance” is on exhibition at Ock Hee’s Gallery in upstate New York, in Honeoye Falls.The show includes images from my time living with colonists in the Brazilian Amazon who had a plague of mosquitoes on their land and were protesting for help in a roadside, makeshift camp (1991) and my time helping researchers in Peru, trekking in the forest, catching caimans to see what they had for lunch and launching health care and wildlife management programs in remote communities.Images explore the culture, the beauty of the forest and the wild of one of the few places left where nature, not man, is in control. It compels us to explore man’s struggle to co-exist with nature and what impact we have on the environment, and what can be lost.Several images feature communities that are recipients of the work The Friends Project does, including the Amazon Animal Orphanage (care for a baby howler monkey), Nueva Esperanza (window screens, a latrine, safe drinking-water program, shoes for kids) and Belén (school supplies).I’ll post some photos later of the images.
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