THROWBACK THURSDAY!! In honor of our 25th anniversary year, we are dedicating Thursdays to taking a look back at past Goldman Prize winners and seeing where they are now. Today, Mama Aleta Baun, 2013, Indonesia. Mama Aleta Baun was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2013 for organizing hundreds of local villagers to peacefully occupy marble mining sites in “weaving protests,” which stopped the destruction of sacred forestland on Mutis Mountain on the island of Timor, Indonesia. Since winning the Prize, Mama Aleta and her organization Pokja OAT have more than doubled the number of community groups they are working with and have received so much interest from funders that they are currently setting up the Mama Aleta Fund, which is set to launch in November 2014. bit.ly/1nnxHW7
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:25:45 +0000
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