NCP t-shirt now available!!

The New Community Project finally has a t-shirt! And as you'd expect, it's very cool, very responsibly made and very fairly priced!

Our new t-shirt comes in two styles and is of course made of recycled material--50% P.E.T. EcoSpun plastic and 50% recovered cotton. One shirt features a silhouette of Delio (day'-lee-oh), the leader of the Siona people who live in the Ecuadorian Amazon. He's an expert on birds, animals and medicinal plants, and is the guide for NCP's annual Learning Tour (more background on the Siona below). The other style has the NCP upside-down globe on the front left pocket. The back of the shirt has the same text on both versions-- People are struggling/Earth is a mess/God's not amused/You're not satisfied/Do Something about it! (followed by the NCP logo and name).

To order your t-shirt, just send us $12 ($10 for the shirt and $2 for shipping) and let us know what size you'd like (available in Small/Medium/Large/Extra Large). Enjoy knowing that you are wearing an earth - and people - friendly shirt .  Use it as a conversation starter to talk to your friends (or perfect strangers) about New Community Project. We are grateful for your support!

Send orders to:
New Community Project
718 Wilder Street
Elgin IL 60123

Or email your order and and pay using Network for Good ("Donate to NCP" link at bottom left of NCP webpages), making a note on your payment that you are purchasing a t-shirt.

More on the Siona: Only around 500 Siona people live in Ecuador, with perhaps 750 in neighboring countries. Until 40 years ago, the Siona were nomadic people, following the seasons and the animals in eastern Ecuador, Columbia and Peru. But then oil was discovered in their region, and they have found their traditional lands invaded first by the oil companies, then the mostly-poor settlers (colonizers) that followed the oil roads to start farming and cattle ranching the former rainforest.

Ecuador's Amazon forests are some of the most diverse in the world, yet they're disappearing at a rate of 2-3 percent per year. What isn't destroyed outright is often badly polluted, with the oil companies dumping 4.3 million gallons of toxic waste into the ecosystem every day--at the headwaters of the Amazon River! And US consumers don't have clean hands in the matter; forty percent of Ecuador's oil is exported to the United States.