Keith: >If you throw in the NGOs brigade (who revel in sailing along *any* >funding_wind [2]) and the forest department (whose idea of 'social' >forestry so far is to plant eucalyptus trees all over India) - I >don't know what the outcome is going to be.
* That bad? They know there are better ways of doing things, don't * they? Did they learn nothing from the Chipko movement etc? They have learnt the wrong lessons I guess, and have fallen a victim to Ngotitis. Anyway, my cynicism apart, I do know a number of organizations who work *genuinely* at the grassroots level... I am just against *that* crop of NGOs with a buccaneerish attitude whose various cultivars have practically hijacked the 'development' agenda. * So we've funded everything out of our own far-from-deep pockets so * far, not easy. We wanted to develop the project first, then we'd go * for funding, not just asking, but with something valuable to offer, * so we could deal, no need to beg. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to * resist the commercial pressures, nor other pressures, and the project * wouldn't be able to deliver its goods. It seems to be working, we're * nearly at that stage now and can soon start putting our funding * strategy into operation at last. In fact the project has achieved * quite a lot already, without any funding, and without even going * anywhere yet. Please accept my congratulations - and best wishes for the journey... * There's more about that here, and on the next page: * http://journeytoforever.org/community.html * Community development * I can send you the whole thing if you like, it's a good read, it * strengthens your case I think. Thanks Keith, I have already gone thru these pages. In fact, I have immensely benefitted from your j2fe site - what amazing range of information! I have been happily recommending your pages and that Steve Solomon (www.soilandhealth.org) - to anyone and everyone who cares... :-) Thanks once again. Regards: __ramjee. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. -- Ronald Reagan, October 27, 1964 Ramjee Swaminathan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.qsl.net/vu2sro/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
