Program areas at PFC
Partnerships For Change (PFC) partnered with the Rural Indian Support Trust(RIST) - the largest private foundation in India to deliver food as medicine. Theprogram feeds nutritious meals. PFC designed the food itself and arranged for thedistribution, including a patented protein drink to 30,000 daily of the most forgotten living in slums during where the COVID-19 crisis the experience increased food insecurity. We plan to scale this program to thousands more project in India for free medical care and the food described. See the video here httpswwwyoutubecomwatchvjieJwi8Pi... Children's Educations and Development (CED) Society is an orphanage and arefuge for "differently abled" young women. CED over the past 22 years has beenfiscally sponsored and developed with the support of Partnerships For Change. Mostlyyoung female children have been rescued from a remote and traditional communityhigh up in the Himalayas. These young have been raised with the best education andsupportive home life. This year some of the residents of CED completed college andheld paid internships at Salesforce in India. It is our Cloud to Cloud achievement where young and often neglected female children have educated themselves so well that they received a paid internship to work on the digital cloud. PFC has continued support for this long term project, supporting the development and growth of the children into young adults.Partnerships For Change is committed to more holistic and community widedevelopment in Liberia. PFC has embarked on a partnership with a locally-basedspiritual religious organization in Liberia with a strong base of trust. We are building and have broken ground on a community health clinic in Liberia that will serve a community of 50,000,PFC is advising the African Union Great Green Wall (GGW ) to raise significant fundsand scale regenerative forests and agricultural projects.During the international conference on the 4th anniversary of Laudato Si' in July2019, PFC joined The Vatican, the Global Catholic Climate Movement, WWF, UNEPand CYNESA to bring young people from all continents to the UNEP complex inNairobi, Kenya. The outcome was a bold commitment by young people to lead theLaudato Si' Generation towards caring for the environment. PFC has sinceestablished a formal partnership with Catholic Youth Network for EnvironmentalSustainability in Africa (CYNESA). Specifically, PFC is a founder of the Angaza Tree Company, Ltd. company in Kenyaled by Alphonce Muia of Nairobi. Angaza will regenerate the ecosystem andeconomic livelihoods of women with the fruits of the Baobab trees. The produce willgenerate super-nutrient protein powder, supplements and oils for local and globalmarkets. Our long term objective is to scale the synergy of ecosystem and economicregeneration to places along the GGW. For the first time in the history of the GreatGreen Wall, we presented a project to approach sovereign wealth funds for AfricanUnion's building of the GGW to benefit 150 millions people living along the 8,000 miles of the Great Green Wall.Expanding the impact of the Vatican's Laudato Si' Action Platform in partnership with His Holiness Pope Francis and ECHo with the Pontifical Academy of Scienceand Dicastery to Promote Integral Human Development (sustainable development).ln the next seven years we are dedicated to implementing the principles for global development to reduce global warming and poverty. The blueprints for radical environmental and social change are described in the Pope's encyclical, Laudato SP and The Green Ten Commandments authored by our partner, Father Joshtrom Kureethadam, He is the coordinator for ecology and creation at the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.The seeds of this multi-faith initiative are being sown with the 1.3 billion Catholics and allied faiths around the globe. Our project emphasizes protecting the poor and indigenous, their land and sacred wisdom, promoting regenerative agriculture and forestry all while promoting the greening of Vatican properties which are the world's most extensive real estate holdings estimated at 177 million acres.The Toxic Free Future For Our Children (TFFFOC) project was inaugurated with PFC asa partner and fiscal sponsor. The mission of this project is to use the best science that calls out toxic chemicals in our environment that are damaging the health of children and populations most vulnerable to toxic consequences. With sustainable targets and deep expertise of sustainable and regenerative agriculture the project aims to build awareness and be a force to change the nature of farming and the food it produces in a toxic free environment. As part of this effort, PFC was a fiscal sponsor for a documentary on the toxic legacy of glyphosate fertilizers.Decarbonize convenes leading innovators in technology and business and academicsto raise the power and effectiveness of reducing carbon and thereby reduce globalwarming or at the very minimum adapt to Global Warming.The Decarbonized team and global alliance searches for proven solutions in: efficiency; low carbon energy; carbon dioxide capture; regenerative forests; circular economy models; ocean conservation; and curated tech solutions focused on drawdown, implemented natural carbon preservation and designed sustainable storage.Partnerships For Change is a fiscal sponsor,Accomplishments: Amazonas Action Alliance FORESTLABS was nominated tocompete for $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest. The ACT NOW FORESTLABS team is coledby Nantar Inga, an Amazonian Indigenous leader, scientist, and entrepreneur, FionaBanister, a Climate Impact Strategist/Educator and Naiara Yusy Sampaio Dolabella,Environmental Lawyer, Indigenous leader from the Ye'pa Mahsa nation in Brasil.Ecuador Indigenous Amazon Rainforest Relief Fund.Decarbonized.org is facilitating multiple fundraisers to provide relief to the Indigenous Ecuadorians and those groups in Brazil also fighting for the Amazon Rainforest.CIAMO is a longstanding project for whom PFC is a Fiscal Sponsor and generaldevelopment partner. The music school has provided education and training forchildren in music. The students developed a student outreach project to promoteawareness of global warming through a tour in their country.Let Science Speak was a film series educating and inspiring people by heroic scientists for their contribution to society. The series was educational in nature and also countered an "know-nothingX and anti-science tide.