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Cucapah Students Win National Environmental Awareness Recognition, Again!
They did it again! For the second time, the Cucapah students in Baja California have won the Amanda Rimoch Award for Environmental Education (2009-2010). The recognition was given by the Secretary of Environmental and Natural Resources, the Secretary of Public Education, the Mexico City Junior League and the Liomont Foundation.
Students from middle, junior and high schools (both public and private) were invited to take part in a contest that promotes initiatives related to environment and biodiversity protection. Participants learn the importance of preserving their environment while they 
honor the memory of Amanda Rimoch, a member of Mexico´s Junior League who was committed to environmental protection.
The students of Cucapah developed software called “Ecoalfabetización 2.0” (ecoabc 2.0) that promotes information about the environment. This award-winning project also allows them to share the information within their communities. Through Ecoalfabetización 2.0, users can share, for example, new ways to save energy and use alternative energy.
The Award was presented to Mextli Xitlalli Bojórquez Ledesma Telesecundaria (high school), which is run by one principal and one teacher. The recipients were also Comunidad Para Baja California Beca Fellows: Jesus Misael Carrillo Saiz, Heavenly Raquel Laguna Rodriguez, Brianda Aneth López Martinez, Dayana Galviz Saenz, Reyna Gabriela Laguna Belt ran, Ramón Jáuregui Laguna, Daniela Rapp Ávila and Samuel Saiz Carrillo. 
The winners traveled to Mexico City, where they received their recognition and 100,000 pesos ($10,000 US dollars) at the Papalote Museum, the largest Museum of Science in Mexico. After being chosen among hundreds of participants, the winners have not decided what they would to do with their award money. Last year, they spent the money on laptops. This year, they think they might get satellite internet for their school.
We are so proud of our Beca Fellows and look forward to supporting their continued success!
For more information, you can check out: http://telesecundariacucapa.blogspot.com/ (Spanish)
Cucapah Needs Your Help – 7.2 Earthquake Hits Baja
First Haiti, then Peru, then Mexico and now China: the world at large - and specifically non-profits - are seeing a case of 'earthquake fatigue'. It's hard to know which group got hit the hardest, 
where you should donate, and what that money can do. For Comunidad, the focus is on the Baja earthquake and its devastating effect on the Cucapah tribe, which is located almost at the quake's epicenter. The community, which in the best of times has a barely livable infrastructure, saw its school, 
common buildings and many of its houses badly damaged by the quake. And with the aftershocks coming frequently, the tribespeople are forced to live outdoors in tents as they try to restore and rebuild.
I know that your wallets as well as your minds are suffering from this 'earthquake fatigue'. But if you can find it in your hearts and budgets to make one more donation, we guarantee you that it will go directly and immediately to the tribes. We have already sent down a mercy mission, with more to follow. Your donations will make a huge difference to a people whose subsistence lifestyle just got reduced to conditions that rival those of any of the earthquake victims around the world. 