Greetings to all My name is Britt Baatjes and I am very pleased to be part of this group. I live in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. I work in adult and community education - I teach, do research, and materials development mainly booklets in ‘plain language’. A few of us are starting a non-formal programme to do with the ecological crisis as part of a new Centre for Alternative Education for Social Action (for children, youth and adults). The programme intends to pursue, provide and demonstrate alternative *education for social action* through participatory action and popular educational practices. The programme conceptualises and implements social actions based on collective and critical engagements with communities about the socio-economic problems experienced as understood from an analysis of the ecological crisis. I was wondering if anyone in this group can suggest organisations who fund such programmes? Please message me at [email protected] Many Thanks Britt Baatjes -- The truth is that many things on which your future health and prosperity depend are in dire jeopardy: climate stability, the resilience and productivity of natural systems, the beauty of the natural world, and biological diversity. It is worth noting that this is not the work of ignorant people. It is, rather, largely the result of work by people with BAs, BSs, LLBs, MBAs, and PhDs. (Orr, 1991)