Resources & Our Partners
Here you will find links to organizations, articles and other resources related to GRA's activities. Our work is informed and inspired by the women and communities we serve and the many like minded organizations and individuals all over the world seeking to end poverty and disease though natural, sustainable, affordable and often simple solutions.
If you would like to add a link to your organization or suggest another appropriate resource, please email Monica at globalresourcealliance@gmail.com
Our Partners
We feel fortunate and honored to collaborate with these organizations in achieving our shared goal of bringing hope, joy and abundance to communities shackled with poverty, malnutrition and disease.
Serving the Mara Region of Tanzania
since 2002
Integrating trees with agriculture to encourage positive interactions in order to improve farm resilience, lead to an overall increase in productivity, biodiversity and other mutual benefits
World Agroforestry
World Agroforestry develops knowledge practices, from farmers’ fields to the global sphere, to ensure food security and environmental sustainability. Our vision is an equitable world where all people have viable livelihoods supported by healthy and productive landscapes.
WeForest is one of the fastest growing organizations devoted to the restoration of forest landscapes throughout the world. They have partnered with GRA to promote and expand our agroforestry project throughout the seven districts of Mara region.
Resource Links
Inspired by nature, Regenerative Agroforestry is a cultivation system that merges trees and agriculture (crops or livestock). All these different elements complement each other. This leads to enhanced resilience, increased biodiversity and a more productive, profitable, and climate-friendly use of the land compared to a monoculture system.
Eden Reforestation Projects recreates healthy forest systems that restore hope, alleviate suffering, empower people, and build local economies in impoverished communities.
Permaculture
The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
GardenAfrica currently works in Southern Africa, providing training and support for the most vulnerable and resource poor, enabling them to cultivate their own food rather than depending on aid, and to conserve important species to promote health and create plant-based livelihoods.
Quail Springs - Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm
Permaculture College Australia
food water shelter Incorporated is a not-for-profit organization: an Australian, non-denominational, non-governmental organization that builds and manages eco-friendly children's villages with education, social and health facilities for vulnerable women and children in developing countries.
"Greening the Desert" - Geoff Lawton Movie
Alternative Health
ALF sets out to create a permanent infrastructure for the establishment of homeopathy and alternative medicine in Kenya; advocates for the full recognition of alternative medicine; and works towards educating traditional healers in modern sciences. To do all that, we have a number of activities.
Homeopathy for Health in Africa, Tanzania
The aims of Homoeopathy for Health in Africa are tobring relief to HIV/AIDS patients through homoeopathictreatment, to develop nutrition, farming and healthpromoting programs, to support homoeopathic education,to establish homoeopathic research and to spreadhomoeopathy throughout Tanzania and Africa.
Natural Ways to Prevent and Treat Common Tropical Diseases, by Tara Blasco, Ph.D.
The effect of a homeopathic neem preparation for the prophylaxis of malaria – an exploratory trial in an at-home setting in Tanzania, N.M. Barlow-Benschop, MD, MScA, C.GambaB, S.P. Barlow, BScA, T. M. Blasco. PhD
ALF sets out to create a permanent infrastructure for the establishment of homeopathy and alternative medicine in Kenya; advocates for the full recognition of alternative medicine; and works towards educating traditional healers in modern sciences. To do all that, we have a number of activities.
Jim Humble's website about Miracle Mineral Supplement, including common applications and proper use.
Orphan's Support
Food Water Shelter Incorporated is a not-for-profit organization: an Australian, non-denominational, non-governmental organization that builds and manages eco-friendly children's villages with education, social and health facilities for vulnerable women and children in developing countries.
Vision: To create opportunities for vulnerable children from marginalized and underserved communities. To give children equal access to educational opportunities and other basic services. To invest in human development by empowering people to understand their challenges and priorities. To provide training that assist people in finding practical, realistic and sustainable solutions to solve their problems.
Little Dresses for Africa is a non-profit, Christian based organization which provides relief to the children of Africa. Simple dresses are made out of pillow cases and distributed through the orphanages in Central Africa to plant in the hearts of little girls that they are worthy!
Primary Water
NWNL has chosen six case-study watersheds to illustrate current universal threats to freshwater systems and offer possibilities of sound management policies and solutions. They are North America’s Columbia, Mississippi and Raritan River Basins and northeastern Africa’s Nile, Omo and Mara River Basins.
Global Water is based upon the belief that the lack of access to safe drinking water is the primary cause of hunger, disease and poverty throughout the developing world. Founded in 1982, Global Water is a volunteer-based, international, non-profit humanitarian organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status in the United States. We’re focused on providing safe water supplies, sanitation and hygiene facilities, and related health programs for rural villagers in developing countries.
FairWater's mission is to rehabilitate abandoned handpumps in Africa, and promote reliable, cost-effective O&M solutions to maintain handpumps at low-cost. FairWater promotes Durable BluePumps and Water Filters for Africa.
Newsletters
Here you will find links to GRA's past newsletters. Our newsletter provides information on simple, sustainable, affordable, alternative and unique solutions to the world's most pressing challenges, as well as updates on GRA's activities.
Dec 2010 Year End Appeal & What We Did
October 2010 Nane Nane Newsletter
From the Mara Soil Event afterwards update
May 2010 Permaculture Newsletter
March 2010 Neem & MMS for Malaria
Dec 2009 Year End Appeal & What We Did in 2009
Eco Safari Movie Expanded Information:
Subject: The experience of a lifetime…
Each year, Lyn and Tara take a small group of people on the Heart of Africa Eco-Safari, a once
in a lifetime opportunity to experience the culture, people and natural wonders of East Africa –
up-close and personal.
The adventure begins at the Kilimanjaro International Airport in Moshi, Tanzania and proceeds
overland to Lake Manyara National Park with its pink flamingos and famous tree climbing lions.
From there, we proceed to the Rhino Lodge on Ngorongoro’s crater rim for the night. The
following day we embark on a day long hike to the top of the Mt. Oldeani volcano and return to
Rhino Lodge in the evening.
The following day, we will descend into the Ngorongoro crater for a game drive in one of
Africa’s densest populations of big game including giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, lions, water
buffalo, elephants, rhinos and many other exotic species. In the afternoon, we proceed on to
Serengeti National Park where we will stay at a top-rated, tented camp in the heart of the park.
An optional early morning hot air balloon ride over the park the next day will be followed by a
game drive to experience again the wonders of Tanzania’s wildlife roaming these vast, legendary
plains.
After a picnic lunch in the park, we will continue on to the home of Tanzania’s late Founding
Father, Julius Nyerere, spending the night in the former diplomatic quest house and the following
morning visit GRA’s new Butiama tree nursery. Those that are interested can visit the Julius
Nyerere Museum on our way to Musoma where the GRA-Tz offices are located.
Guests will spend one day visiting the homes of orphans in one of GRA’s two programs and the
following day working side by side with local villagers in our extensive Kinesi Village tree
planting initiative. On the weekend, we will get together with the kids in our Tumaini kwa
Watoto (Hope for the Children) program in Musoma for singing, dancing, writing letters and
making drawings for sponsors, and the distribution of weekly supplies.
The last day of the safari will include a trip to a small, tropical “island paradise” in Lake Victoria
for a relaxing overnight stay before departing for home - or onward destinations in Africa.
The next ten day eco-safari will begin somewhere around the middle of August 2020 – Covid-19
permitting. If you think you might be interested in joining, or would like more information,
please email Lyn at lrh127@gmail.com.