http://www.koinoniafoundation.com Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:48:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Preserving Guava Jam in Sri Lanka Preethi Burkholder, Project Director Koinonia Foundation, Maryland, USA, awarded the Rajarata Praja Kendraya Organization (RPK), Kekirawa, Sri Lanka, a grant to preserve guava jam. Preethi Burkholder, was the project director and worked with the staff and volunteers of RPK to make the guava jam ... http://www.koinoniafoundation.com/project-locations/guava-jam-from-sri-lanka/ [gallery link="file" columns="2"] http://www.koinoniafoundation.com/project-locations/oberon-greenhouse-project/ AWARD TO MORGAN CO., WV OBSERVATORY Background Buried for 6 long years. In 1993 the Morgan County Board of Education was given a gift -- a research grade 16" Cassegrain telescope. It was donated by the U.S. Naval Academy. The Telescope is 12 feet high, weighs over 2 tons and is worth ... http://www.koinoniafoundation.com/project-locations/morgan-county-observatory/ SAVE THE LEATHERBACK TURTLES Beauty in motion, but only 108 laying females showed up this year on the last West Coast nesting site. These 77 Leatherback turtle eggs will be checked daily for correct temperature through the thermo-coupling wire stretching from the nest up to the beach. A Koinonia grant helped ... http://www.koinoniafoundation.com/project-locations/leatherback-turtles/ Maryland Youth Project Earth Around 1995 a Koinonia funded project placed this stunning picture of our earth in every classroom in Maryland. It was and is our hope this silent reminder to our youth of the world, both wondrous and fragile, it will instill in them a love of creation ... http://www.koinoniafoundation.com/project-locations/project-earth/ [singsong-insert:http://www.koinoniafoundation.com/music/6285.wav]Chief of Yankton Sioux The Yankton Sioux Reservation sits nestled along the Missouri River, in southeastern South Dakota. Unfortunately, over this past century much of the Dakota culture has been lost. It has only been recently (Aug 1978), that Native Americans have been allowed to practice their ceremonial rights without ... http://www.koinoniafoundation.com/project-locations/standing-elk/ [singsong-insert:http://www.koinoniafoundation.com/music/Pig01.wav]FOUNDED IN 1992 PIGS, A SANCTUARY is a place of refuge for abused, abandoned, neglected and unwanted animals. We specialize in the care of potbellied pigs and farm pigs, but shelter other farm and domestic animals as well. The Sanctuary currently provides a safe haven for approximately 400 animals, including 150 ... http://www.koinoniafoundation.com/project-locations/pig-sanctuary/