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Plenty Internationalis anenvironmental,humanitarian aidandhuman rightsorganization based inSummertown,Tennessee, United States.
 Plenty International | |
| Formation | 1974 |
|---|---|
| Type | Nonprofit |
| 23-7432298 | |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3) |
| Headquarters | Summertown, Tennessee |
Board Chair | Lisa Wartinger |
Executive Director | Peter Schweitzer |
| Award(s) | Right Livelihood Award |
| Website | https://plenty.org/ |
Background
editIn 1974,Stephen GaskinandThe Farm,anintentional community,started an outreach program called Plenty. In response to the devastating1976 Guatemala earthquake,Plenty sent carpenters who built schools, houses and clinics in remoteMayanvillages and a clinic forMother Teresa.In its first ten years, Plenty established a clinic and orphanage inBangladesh,anappropriate technologytraining center and reforestation program inLesotho,and a wind-powered electric lighting system in aCaribIndian school inDominica.It provided disaster relief in the "Developing" World and freeambulanceservice to theSouth Bronxwhich helped to train emergency personnel what then becameNew York City'sEMS.It went to sea withGreenpeaceand gave theRainbow Warrioritsham radio,slo-scan TV,andradiation monitoring equipment.[1]Plenty put Native AmericanFMstations on the air, and pioneered amateur-band television and radio to keep its remote outposts of volunteers connected.
Plenty continues to work withNative Americanprimary health care,midwifery,microeconomics,food andecotourismcooperatives and alternative building programs, including thehemphouse on thePine Ridge Indian Reservationwith the assistance ofThe Farm School.[2]
Following the catastrophic landfall ofHurricane KatrinanearNew Orleansin August 2005, Plenty volunteers worked on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis to deliver essential supplies and re-establish civil order.[3]Plenty worked withVeterans for Peace,Camp Casey,and others to place volunteers where they were most needed. Plenty stayed on scene for the following year and organized clean-up and repair of the damage along the coastlines ofAlabama,MississippiandLouisiana,including the cities ofMobile(Alabama),BiloxiandGulfport(Mississippi), andSlidell(Louisiana).[4]Plenty also brought displaced and disadvantaged children from theGulf Coastback to The Farm to participate in itsKids To The Countrysummer nature school in 2006.
Plenty was awarded theRight Livelihood Awardin 1980 for "caring, sharing and acting with and on behalf of those in need at home and abroad."[5]
References
editMelvyn Stiriss, a Plenty volunteer carpenter wrote about a year of Guatemalan earthquake reconstruction in Mayan Adventure, part 4 of Voluntary Peasants Labor of Love/The Farm Commune published by New Beat Books, Warwick, NY 2015
- ^"About Radiation Detectors – Advantages & Disadvantages".Radiation Detectors, Radiation Detection Equipment | Radiation Alert® by S.E. International, Inc.2019-02-14.Retrieved2019-05-29.
- ^"The Pine Ridge Hemp Project".Archived fromthe originalon 2007-12-24.Retrieved2007-11-12.
- ^"Plenty's Gulf Hurricane Recovery Program".Plenty.Archived fromthe originalon February 6, 2012.RetrievedAugust 12,2015.
- ^"Charity Lifts Katrina Supplies From Pat Robertson".Archived fromthe originalon 2016-09-10.Retrieved2007-11-12.
- ^"Stephen Gaskin / Plenty International".The Right Livelihood Award.Retrieved2020-01-08.