Acknowledgements

For making it possible to initiate and start the Environmental Foundation, we wish to thank:

Milton Grundy, for providing seed funding to establish operational bases in Sierra Leone in 1995 and Liberia in 1997 and for providing ongoing support in the UK;

All the individual volunteers who contributed by supporting and working for setting up the Environmental Foundation.

For making the work of Environmental Foundation possible, we wish to thank:

The Netherlands Committee for the World Conservation Union/Tropical Rainforest Program, NC-IUCN/TRP, for its support for projects in both Liberia and Sierra Leone, 1998-2001;

Agency for Personal Services Overseas/Ireland, APSO, for co-funding an Irish Volunteer to work with ENFOSAL and now EFA in Sierra Leone and Liberia, 1997-2001;

United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, for supporting returnee and refugee programs commencing in Liberia, 1998-2000;

United Nations World Food Program (WFP) for supporting, with food for work for projects in Sierra Leone and Liberia, 1997-1999;

Dublin Corporation Third World Fund for funding a community agroforestry project in Kambia, SL in 1997/98. Unfortunately disrupted by crisis in Sierra Leone but project eventually completed in December 1998;

Combined Services Third World Fund - Ireland and Radio Television Ireland (RTE) for funding ENFOSAL's first (by CSTWF) land reclamation project in Kambia in 1996 and a second (by CSTWF and RTE) phase in 1997. The second phase was not completed because of the civil conflict which escalated after the coup in May 1997;

ACTIONAID Sierra Leone for donating a vehicle (1997) and providing some institutional support (1995-1997);

British High Commission (Sierra Leone) for funding a community tree nursery project at Lakka, Freetown, 1996 and the first and only edition of an ENFOSAL newsletter in April 1997;

German Embassy (Sierra Leone) for funding equipment and furniture for office and training centre in Freetown 1996-1997;

And finally the approximately 1500 ENFOSAL members in Sierra Leone, Ireland, UK, Germany and the USA through membership contributions in 1996-1997. A membership scheme for EFA will be designed to eventually replace the ENFOSAL one;

We also thank all the other individual volunteers and organisations who contributed by supporting in small and large ways: Catholic Relief Services (CRS), International Rescue Committee (IRC), Concern Worldwide, GOAL Ireland, etc.

EFA is serving as an "umbrella" organisation for its country programs.

The Liberia Program is today managed by EFA and will, in time, be managed by a local set-up.

The Sierra Leonean Program started off as a separate program under the name ENFOSAL – Environmental Foundation of Sierra Leone.

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