Your Gift...

Funds are needed for public education, project promotional events and publica­tions to expand our key support base. Just $100 helps the Totem Project organize presentations in the U.S. to discuss the impact of globalization on indigenous peoples in Asia.

    $1 purchases three sanitary veteri­nary hypodermic needles for nomadic herder vet care for the last domestic reindeer of Siberia and Mongolia.

     $5 purchases two Tyvan language books that can help two Dukha families continue to learn and use their traditional, native language.

    $25 provides a Mongolian or Russian colleague with critical travel costs for jeep, driver and gasoline in order that they can reach remote field destinations to check and treat reindeer and train herders in their care.

     $50 purchases five wood and bone ­carving tools that traditional herders use to make crafts for supplemental income.

     $75 is the "adopt-a-reindeer" level whereby the Totem Project can continue to work with the State Veterinary Laboratories of Mongolia and Tyva, Russia, in keeping reindeer alive, well and prospering in the taiga.

     $250 secures translators and covers the costs needed for native rights workshops and seminars with government official in Tyva, Russia and Mongolia.

     $500 purchases field medical veterinary and surgical kits for three remote groupings of nomadic herders who otherwise are forced to go without proper care for themselves and their totem animals.