Important links and websites

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Saturday, March 5, 2016

JMD cotinues to grow, and help cocoa farmers in the province

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Even though Building Bridges to the Future is no longer able to fund JMD’s projects, staff continues to let me know about their progress in ...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

How to do a REAL cocoa improvement project

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A few months ago I posted some information on an international agency that had received 6.7 million in 2008 from the p...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

August in Simpang Jernih: the harvest season begins with great training and healthy trees

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Robert’s been helping some of the farmers with some early harvests these past weeks—Aceh Timur has begun the season, which is a long one ...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

If you ever wanted to support JMD, now is the time

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This is a hard post to write.  For over ten years I have had the privilege of being involved in the development and support of Jembat...
Friday, August 7, 2015

“It’s reasonable now to talk about genocide prevention in Myanmar.”

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The New York Times hasn’t let up on the Rohingya crisis, and it’s taken a nasty turn--as if it could get any nastier....
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Rohingya Update: As you can see, Myanmar is really taking the world’s message to heart . . .

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The Burma Times seems to be the media outlet closest to the Rohingya crisis that is sticking its neck way, way out in...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

The True Asians: time to allow the Rohingya to receive “stateless passports”

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I read an English summary of a really interesting article last week, by Rossen Yankov, a Bulgarian journalist, who was...