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Home / Archives for Simi Bhagwandass

A win for weavers: community entrepreneurship prize

02/07/2014 by Simi Bhagwandass Leave a Comment

PRCF Indonesia Associate, Fifiyati Hoesni, has been awarded a community entrepreneurship prize for her dedication to the Dayak weaving project in Indonesian Borneo. ‘Dayak’ is a loose term for the indigenous peoples of Borneo. Weaving, an ancestral art form practiced mainly by older Dayak women, is under threat of extinction because younger generations are leaving […]

Filed Under: Indonesia, Indonesia Feature Post, PRCF Feature Post Tagged With: art, Arthur Guiness Fund, Borneo, British Council, community, culture, Dayak, entrepreneurship, indigenous, Indonesia, People Resources and Conservation Foundation, weaving

PRCF Named in List of Top-Rated Nonprofit Organizations

06/05/2012 by Simi Bhagwandass Leave a Comment

PRCF has been named to a new list of top-rated nonprofits by GreatNonprofits, a leading provider of user reviews for nonprofit organizations. The top-rated green nonprofits list is composed of organizations that have received at least ten positive reviews from stakeholders, such as volunteers, donors, or clients.

Filed Under: PRCF Tagged With: awards, environmental issues, GreatNonprofits, Green, Guidestar, nonprofit organizations, People Resources and Conservation Foundation, PRCF

Striving to save the remaining forests in West Borneo

20/11/2011 by Simi Bhagwandass Leave a Comment

In October 2011, PRCF Indonesia’s work on protecting the remaining forests in West Kalimantan, was featured in the Pontianak Post. The article, written in Bahasa Indonesian, touches on PRCF’s work to ensure rural communities are granted management status of the forests surrounding their villages. (Photo: Stephanie Jung.)

Filed Under: Indonesia Tagged With: Borneo, ensaid panjang, hutan desa, Imanul Huda, Indonesia, longhouse, People Resources and Conservation Foundation, Pontianak, Pontianak Post, Sintang, village forest, West Borneo

Mississauga 2011: Carassauga Festival of Cultures

09/06/2011 by Simi Bhagwandass Leave a Comment

On June 3rd through 5th, PRCF Indonesia participated, for the first time, in the Carassauga Festival of Cultures. The Indonesian pavilion was hosted by the Indonesian Consulate in Toronto, in partnership with the Indonesian Canadian Community Association (ICCA).

Filed Under: Events, Indonesia Tagged With: Borneo, Carassauga, cultures, festival, ikat, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Mississauga, People Resources and Conservation Foundation, PRCF, traditional textiles

Join our Youth Ambassador Program!

05/05/2011 by Simi Bhagwandass Leave a Comment

Interested in conservation? Want to develop your networks and build leadership skills? Join our Youth Ambassador program and we’ll support your efforts to make a real difference.

Filed Under: PRCF

Art for the Animals

23/03/2011 by Simi Bhagwandass

Art For The Animals (AFTA) is a unique giving program that combines wildlife Donations and original folk art into extraordinary holiday gifts.  PRCF connected with AFTA during their California Campaign in 2010 to support both the weavers of West Kalimantan, and the endangered Mueller Gibbon.  Details about the initiative, can be found here.

Filed Under: Partnerships

Gallery: Dayak Ikat Weaving Sintang

21/03/2011 by Simi Bhagwandass

Photo taken by Washang Photography “Dayak Ikat Weaving” is a traditional weaving process from the heart of Indonesian Borneo. “Ikat” meaning “to bind” involves tying and dyeing thread before it is woven into elaborate designs. The symbolic Dayak motifs incorporated into the woven patterns make every cloth unique: each depiction has a specific meaning, allowing […]

Filed Under: Gallery

Montreal 2010: Cocktail for a Cause

21/03/2011 by Simi Bhagwandass

On December 8th 2010, the PRCF hosted their first public engagement event named “Cocktail for a Cause” in support of wildlife species and indigenous peoples’ projects in South-east Asia. The focus of the event was the “Tiger Conservation” project at the Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia, and the “Ikat and Environment” project in Indonesia. Video displays were used to raise awareness of efforts in these two PRCF Country Programs. Visit the event’s blog for details on the event, and to have access to the images and videos relating to the cocktail.

Filed Under: Events, PRCF

California 2010

21/03/2011 by Simi Bhagwandass

In August 2010, the PRCF sent two representatives: Simi Bhagwandass (Program Development Officer) and Julie Cao (Governance and Communications Officer) on their first campaign in the United States aiming to raise awareness of, and funds for, the Foundations programming throughout South East Asia.

Filed Under: Campaigns, PRCF Tagged With: California, fundraising, PRCF, South-east Asia

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