The month of January here in Prashanthagiri started off not only in celebration of the new year, but also in celebration of the completion of Phase I of the Profugo Biogas Program, resulting in the construction of 3 digesters for three families. Through the Profugo Biogas Program we are implementing household biogas digesters for the most disadvantaged families in the village. Thanks to a donation by Dr. Leif and Dr. Lena Oxelmark from the University
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In order to raise awareness about Profugo, I recently worked an event at a local university that centered on fair trade. The event featured products from all over the world that devoted their sales and business practices to benefiting the producers abroad. Unicef sponsored this event and had several representatives asking questions of the attendees about their feelings on fair trade and human trafficking. I watched one representative ask a very fashionable student how her
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Take one part lime, one part trash, one part string, one part friendly competition, and two parts motivational reflection, and you have the recipe for our latest Children’s Club meeting. The meeting, which was our third official Children’s Club meeting of the year, was held here at the Profugo house on Saturday, October 11th. We had 40 participants of various ages, most between 10 and 18, come out for a jam-packed morning of activities. The
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Whether you enjoy watching a Broadway show in Manhattan; or sipping a cup of coffee and reading poetry in your backyard; or admiring a framed picture of a sea turtle created by your five-year old son, you must certainly have a proclivity for the arts. The arts, which comes in various forms (literature, performing arts, visual arts, etc) is “a documented expression of a sentient being through or an accessible medium so that anyone else
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I have had multiple role models during my life. Perhaps the most important role model of all was my mother; she is a well-educated woman who is dedicated to her job and to others. She has spent the majority of her life not only being a mother and caring for her four children, but acting as a role model for her thousands of students, as she is a Biology professor at a local university. Without
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