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=Mission= To educate people of all ages about preventing the imminent threat of desertification and getting them involved in the process.

Goals

 * To educate children about desertification
 * To get people of all ages involved in desertification-prevention and reduction programs
 * Holding fun and interactive fundraisers to help raise awareness, getting more people interested, and getting some capital

=3 Year Plan=

Year 1

 * Recruit part-time volunteers who are interested in our cause.
 * Establish contacts with agricultural society and educational facilities
 * Find basic sources of funding for projects
 * find a place, office or home, to be a base of operations

Year 2

 * Begin to hold self-operated fundraisers to raise awareness and resources ie: money and volunteers
 * Begin desertification-education programs at local schools
 * Educate farmers about different methods of farming that will minimize damage to the land. We help them by holding programs that will show and help them select which method they will use.
 * Have local communities plant seeds in semi-arid land
 * Start recruiting full-time volunteers

Year 3

 * Educate more farmers about different methods
 * Pressure government to fund farmers as they switch to less profitable but less damaging methods
 * Expand the amount of schools we go to to educate more youths
 * Continue to recruit volunteers
 * Start to think about increasing the target age to educate as more members are recruited