World Wildlife Fund's Gift Catalog - 2008-2009 - (Page 38) A place apart Madagascar Adopt a Ring-Tailed Lemur VU When you think of Madagascar, think of lemurs — they exist nowhere else on earth. These extremely social primates have long limbs and flexible fingers and toes, well suited for life in the trees. But with rising human population and increasing deforestation, lemurs will lose more and more habitat in the years ahead unless new protections are introduced. $100 $50 $25 CTLE Great Idea! Blossoms of a rosy periwinkle Vezo girl holding a conch shell Bayobab trees Man carrying raffia leaves for construction, Mananjara EXTRAORDINARY GIFT Learning to Lead: The Gift of Conservation Education Every day, throughout the world, women make choices that affect the environment. Women grow food, manage markets and bring up the next generation. The choices they make and the values they teach have enormous consequences for the future of conservation. WWF established the Girls Education Program to achieve maximum conservation impact. That means helping girls in priority places where population growth rates are high, and where girls and women have lower literacy rates. We are currently working in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, Nepal and Bhutan. We give girls access to general instruction, environmental education and, where appropriate, family planning. WWF's Environmental Education Coordinator, Zeinab Musa, visits a class near Kiunga Marine National Reserve, Kenya. Girls Education Program students share a laugh outside the study room WWF helped build on Mafia Island, Tanzania. Want to make a gift that will have a lasting impact? Give the gift of education! • A gift of $1,000 could support one girl’s education, room and board through four years of school. • A gift of $5,000 could support the college education of one of our WWF-sponsored girls. • A gift of $10,000 could help expand the Girls Education Program to support many more girls around the world. Please call WWF’s exclusive Extraordinary Gifts line at 1-888-993-1100 for more details about these opportunities. 38 2 Your donation will be used in general support of WWF’s conservation efforts around the world. http://www.worldwildlife.org/ogc/species_SKU.cfm?cqs=CTLE&sc=AWY0900WCN11
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