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Future Generations Master's Degree Students in JamkhedThe December, 2008 issue of National Geographic features Jamkhed, a community-based rural health program in India.  Future Generations has worked closely with and continues to learn a great deal from the Comprehensive Rural Health Program of Jamkhed. As part of their India residential, Future Generations Master's Degree students reside at Jamkhed and learn from a vast range of community experience. 

In 2007, Future Generations Trustee Emeritus, the Honourable Flora MacDonald, founded Future Generations Canada to raise awareness and funds for Future Generations work in Bamyan Province of central Afghanistan. 

See the full CBC documentary, "Flora's Mission," by clicking <here.>

Engaging the people provides a powerful incentive for peace

The International Budget Partnership published the following article by Laura C. Altobelli, Country Director for Future Generations Peru, in their most recent newsletter.  The IBP is a leading advocate of openness and public accountability, in order to make government budgets more responsive to the needs of low-income people.  You can read the full article text here, or in the IBP e-newsletter:

Through a report by Associated Press writer Henry Sanderson, the Green Long March, a national Chinese youth movement for the environment initiated and supported by Future Generations/CHINA has made international news.

Highlights include: The International Herald Tribune, Forbes, MSN news, Newsweek, and USA Today. In Asia, coverage includes the:  China Post, the Bangkok Post, and the Taiwan News.

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Jamie Henn of the organization 350 describes his experience in China with the Green Long March, in the article China Marches to a Green Beat, published in WireTap Magazine.

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The China Daily is the largest English language paper in China, widely read among the business community and embassies.  In the article entitled "Green is New Red", China Daily reporter Liu Jie writes about Future Generations China and the Green Long March.

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Writer Bill McKibben mentions Future Generations in his article What the World Needs Now in Ode Magazine. 

McKibben writes: "We'd come to visit a woman trained by a remarkable American foundation, Future Generations, as a village welfare worker...", and goes on to explain how a villager in remote Arunachal Pradesh, India is applying the lessons of Gandhi through her work with Future Generations.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Senior Asia Correspondent, Patrick Brown, travels to Tibet, China to investigate the impact of climate change. He discovers local people working to establish the new Four Great Rivers protected area, initiated in partnership by Future Generations.  The ten minute news feature was broadcast on Canadian public television and is available on their website.  See below for the Google Video version:

Dorothy W. Knapp, former deputy country director for Future generations Afghanistan, writes for Thomas College Magazine about the challenges involved in improving Afghanistan's education system, and how they can be overcome using our unique methodology.  From the article Raising Education Brick by Brick in Afghanistan: