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Charity and Voluntary Sector
Newswire: Working in partnership with Klub Group, a provider of adventure holidays for many years, the British Legion offers FREE week-long adventure breaks to children of men & women who are currently serving, or have served in the Armed Forces.
This Poppy Adventure Break is a great opportunity for young people to enjoy themselves, meet new people, experience new things, improve their self esteem - and most of all have fun. Needless to say parents get a well earned break as well.
Newswire - SI: Survival International has launched an international ad campaign calling for the protection of one of the last uncontacted tribes in South America. One ad shows the destruction of forest belonging to Paraguay’s Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe, which is being bulldozed to make way for cattle ranching. The ad states that the tribe will ‘be forced to flee, running for their lives’ and urges supporters to send a letter to Paraguay’s President Lugo.
A separate ad is being published in 6 languages and has already appeared in Red Bulletin and Condé Nast Traveller. It also focuses on the destruction of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians’ ancestral land and urges supporters to ‘Help Restore Logic’.
In 2005 a UNESCO biosphere reserve was created in the area. One of its aims was ‘the recovery, legalization and return of the land to these native people’, and in 2007 Survival presented a petition with 57,000 signatures to Paraguay’s government in support of the Ayoreo. Despite this, satellite pictures have revealed that the Ayoreo’s land continues to be cleared.
