Conservation and Environmental Grants launched by Ford Motor Company, is providing funds worth $100,000 to environmental activists in the GCC and Levant region to support their projects. This is one of the longest-running private eco initiatives in the region.
Since its incorporation, nearly 140 Middle Eastern environmental projects have been benefitted by this grass-root level program which offers $1.2 million in its 13th year. The Grants aims to support these activists create awareness about the environment and much required efforts for conservation. The programme is now open and receiving applications for grants from not-for-profit, on-going environmental projects which are seeking additional funding, from Ford Motor Company.
According to the statement,”This year also marks the addition of Iraq to the GCC/Levant Chapter of the Ford Grants, bringing to nine the countries that Ford’s green initiative covers.” Projects from Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE can apply, it added. An independent panel of jurors comprising nine experts and academics from environmental agencies and institutions will choose the winning projects.
The 2011 winners included projects saving coral reefs and protecting marine resources in Kuwait, Oman and the UAE, initiatives in Lebanon that involve communities to recycle for a good cause, become eco-police and protect natural resources, setting up community theaters to instill environmental awareness in Jordan, volunteerism to collect and segregate plastic waste in Kuwait.
Deadline of submission set for July 10, 2012.
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