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Millions of South Africans drink contaminated water, work in unsafe mines and live in areas filled with hazardous waste. This is the legacy of racist and inhumane apartheid policies. read more

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NEWS: Winter 2004 BBC News coverage of two 2004 Air Quality Exchange Partners

BBC News Reports on 2004 Air Quality Exchange Partners (Winter 2004) This past fall, the the BBC News featured two in-depth reports on two communities that participated in groundWork's March 2004 Air Quality Exchange. Both Port Arthur, Texas and... Read more...

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2005 Nigeria International Community Exchange: Introduction

From 8-15 May, 2005 six community activists, many of them living on the fenceline of South Africa's oil and petrochemical industries, visited areas in Nigeria deeply affected by the economic and environmental costs of oil exploration. Read more...
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Waste Exchange 2004: Introduction

In June 2004, groundWork organized an exchange of three South African environmental justice activists Read more...
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Air Quality Exchange: Introduction

groundWork organized a delegation of five environmental justice activists from the USA to tour South African communities, here is what they saw. Read more...
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Project X-Change

From May 18 to June 8, 2002 five young South African activists visited communities of color around the US as a part of Project X-Change, an environmental justice youth exchange. Read more...
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