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Media / Communication
1. Videos
In order to create mass awareness for environmental problems and demonstrate solutions , we rely heavily on media promotion through videos, multimedia and the internet. We believe that only when people are fully aware of the scope of a problem, are they able to participate in creating solutions. Legacy partners with Goat Tea Productions, a multi- faceted production facility, to provide videos and new media projects. The principals of Goat Tea and Legacy have created over 15 environmental and community awareness videos for such clients as the United Nations, Red Cross, USAID and the European Union. Visit Goat Tea Productions for a complete list of credits and services.
What's New:
The Foundation has just completed shooting a video about the briquette making process in Peru. Our team spent three weeks in August in and around Cusco visiting briquette making sites, interviewing people about their fuel uses and recording the rapidly changing environmental situation. The video should be completed by the end of November.
2. Information Training Centers
There is little doubt about the widening gap between rich and poor, about the increasingly crowded cities and the abandoned rural villages in the third world. At the same time there is a growing presence of telecommunications resources, including cel phones, internet and fiber optic networks. In taking advantage of these events, Legacy has embarked upon an ambitious and unique development program designed to give a self-sustaining voice to the rural areas.
The process starts with combining tailored database software with conventional email, backstopped by radio modems and cellular phone technology. Then, under the direction of a locally trained three person communications team, the needs and resources of the rural poor can be organized more efficiently and cost effectively and allow them to better communicate with each other.
The Information Training Centers will provide:
- Market information to the farmer, enabling them to optimize their pricing, wholesale purchasing and transportation to the market.
- Affordable technical assistance and training at cost to groups of interested rural citizens on a scheduled basis
- Effective and accountable access for humanitarian and emergency relief
It is through such a program that Legacy Foundation encourages a reverse migration to rural areas which is not subsidized but rather driven by market and natural social forces. The goal is to see population and resources better balanced and the quality of life improved in the new global village economy.
Legacy Foundation believes such centers can be sustained on a franchised basis, once initially capitalized and operated for 12 months.
3. Media
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