UPDATE: On 8/4, Aviram is scheduled to appear on Jean Ponzi's show Earthworms, 7 p.m. on 88.1 FM, KDHX. Listen online here.
Aviram Rozin and his wife Yorit moved from their native Israel to India in 2003 and founded the non-profit Sadhana Forest (SF). In addition to performing reforestation, SF teaches sustainable living, increases food security through ecological transformation, reclaims wasteland to productivity, and restores the water cycle and raises the water table, all of which help raise the living standards of the local residents. With the help of thousands of international volunteers, Aviram and Yorit have expanded SF into Haiti and Kenya, and, in 2010, SF won a prize from the Humanitarian Water and Food Award, an organization that promotes global best-practices in water and food security initiatives.
In January, Lark Rodman, a St. Louis native now volunteering with SF, gave a Green Speaker Series talk on her work. In this special follow-up, Aviram will share the inspiring story of the establishment and growth of an ecological and humanitarian effort that is improving living conditions for some of the world's poorest people. Donations to SF will be accepted but not solicited.
