Word: guyana
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He’s also raised $25,000 to fund his Habitat for Humanity team’s work-trip to East Demararra, Guyana, and built homes for inner-city communities in Boston, Norristown, N.J. and Germantown, Penn...
...provides employment resources to those in need. The group has grown from seven students to 22 volunteers working at two offices in Central Square. They have served 40 clients this year alone. Subrahmanian has dedicated his spring breaks to Habitat for Humanity, traveling twice to Philadelphia and once to Guyana...
Extremism may claim God as its redeemer, but it's really the selfish product of lunacy. In America, the most free and modern nation of our time, you see it too. You saw it with Jim Jones, who told his flock in Guyana to follow him into death by drinking poisoned Kool-Aid, and you saw it when David Koresh created his own small hell in Waco, Texas...
...decades. A native of the tiny island of Trinidad, Naipaul is a travel writer almost by default--he is a foreigner everywhere he goes--and it's a privilege to look through his outsider's X-ray eyes at Mobutu's Zaire, or at a would-be revolutionary in Guyana, or at a holy man in Bombay, and see what is normally invisible to the tourist...
...which means there are few potential buyers. The Nature Conservancy bought the rights to 1.6 million acres adjoining Bolivia's Noel Kempff Mercado National Park in 1998 for $1 an acre--doubling the park's size. In 2000 Conservation International leased 200,000 acres of forest in southeastern Guyana for a $20,000 up-front fee and annual payments of 15[cents] an acre. Even where loggers cannot be bought out, the damage they do can be reduced. In the Congo the Wildlife Conservation Society has persuaded the German firm CIB to feed its workers beef and chicken instead...