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We use our resources to foster community development and economic empowerment in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
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McKnight's Southeast Asia Grants Program seeks to increase the capacity of isolated communities and families to achieve self-sufficiency and improve their quality of life. The program supports projects that increase economic opportunities and protect and improve the livelihoods of especially vulnerable people and communities;
that protect and better manage existing natural resources as a community development strategy; and that address war legacy issues, by helping build the capacity of landmine/Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) survivors and their families to achieve economic independence and long-term self-sufficiency. Efforts that recognize the specific challenges facing indigenous ethnic minority populations are a high priority. Each year, two percent of the Foundation's grants are awarded to projects in Southeast Asia; in 2006, the program granted approximately US$1.9 million.
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