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- establishing medical clinics;
- providing micro credit loans; and
- helping villages build sustainable water systems, check dams, embankments, drip irrigation, shallow wells, strategically located ponds, river and lakeside plantations, and planting thousands of trees.
Longer-term projects include creating ecologically and economically self-sustainable communities.
Most important is feeding the hungry. Initial Indian venues were established in Siliguri, North Bengal and Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Other feeding centers were planned throughout the country. Achieving them depends on personal donations.
With Garda's death, its site "currently (is) unable to receive money." Hopefully it will again soon under others continuing what she began. Her work's too important to disrupt.
It reflects PROUT's mission "to unite moralists everywhere against exploitation anywhere." It seeks "unsung heros" to confront oppression in all forms, including extremist fundamentalism, fascism, communism, patriarchy, and predatory capitalism.
They threaten all life forms, including planet earth and humanity. "Struggle starts (with) reclaim(ing) economic sovereignty of local communities." PROUT sought to "unite all struggles against oppression into one global struggle (for) one world, one humanity, and one family."It challenged today's order for what sustainably helps everyone everywhere. WPA headlined, "Economy of the People, For the People and By the People! Put Economic Power in the Hands of the People! Moralists of the world - unite!"
Garda lived what she believed. Her life's mission was helping others by establishing life-sustaining initiatives. She gave all selflessly.
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