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==Background== In 1974, [[Stephen Gaskin]] and [[The Farm (Tennessee)|The Farm]], an [[intentional community]], started an outreach program called Plenty. In response to the devastating [[1976 Guatemala earthquake]], Plenty sent carpenters who built schools, houses and clinics in remote [[Maya peoples|Mayan]] villages and a clinic for [[Mother Teresa]]. In its first ten years, Plenty established a clinic and orphanage in [[Bangladesh]], an [[appropriate technology]] training center and reforestation program in [[Lesotho]], and a wind-powered electric lighting system in a [[Island Caribs|Carib]] Indian school in [[Dominica]]. It provided disaster relief in the "Developing" World and free [[ambulance]] service to the [[South Bronx]] which helped to train emergency personnel what then became [[New York City]]'s [[Emergency medical services|EMS]]. It went to sea with [[Greenpeace]] and gave the [[Rainbow Warrior (1978)|''Rainbow Warrior'']] its [[ham radio]], [[slo-scan TV]], and [[radiation monitoring equipment]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://seintl.com/about-radiation-detectors-advantages-disadvantages/|title=About Radiation Detectors – Advantages & Disadvantages|date=2019-02-14|website=Radiation Detectors, Radiation Detection Equipment {{!}} Radiation Alert® by S.E. International, Inc.|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-29}}</ref> Plenty put Native American [[FM broadcasting|FM]] stations on the air, and pioneered amateur-band television and radio to keep its remote outposts of volunteers connected. Plenty continues to work with [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] primary health care, [[midwifery]], [[microeconomics]], food and [[ecotourism]] cooperatives and alternative building programs, including the [[hemp]] house on the [[Pine Ridge Indian Reservation]] with the assistance of [[The Farm School]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.plenty.org/pineridgehouse.htm |title=The Pine Ridge Hemp Project |access-date=2007-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224214224/http://www.plenty.org/pineridgehouse.htm |archive-date=2007-12-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Following the catastrophic landfall of [[Hurricane Katrina]] near [[New Orleans]] in August 2005, Plenty volunteers worked on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis to deliver essential supplies and re-establish civil order.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.plenty.org/katrina/Katrina1.html | title=Plenty's Gulf Hurricane Recovery Program | work=Plenty | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206154829/http://www.plenty.org/katrina/Katrina1.html | archivedate=February 6, 2012 |url-status=dead| accessdate=August 12, 2015}}</ref> Plenty worked with [[Veterans for Peace]], [[Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas|Camp Casey]], and others to place volunteers where they were most needed. Plenty stayed on scene for the following year and organized clean-up and repair of the damage along the coastlines of [[Alabama]], [[Mississippi]] and [[Louisiana]], including the cities of [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]] (Alabama), [[Biloxi]] and [[Gulfport, Mississippi|Gulfport]] (Mississippi), and [[Slidell, Louisiana|Slidell]] (Louisiana).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://sweetness-light.com/archive/is-plenty-int-stealing-katrina-supplies-from-pat-robertson |title=Charity Lifts Katrina Supplies From Pat Robertson |access-date=2007-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910035401/http://sweetness-light.com/archive/is-plenty-int-stealing-katrina-supplies-from-pat-robertson |archive-date=2016-09-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Plenty also brought displaced and disadvantaged children from the [[Gulf Coast]] back to The Farm to participate in its [[Kids To The Country]] summer nature school in 2006. Plenty was awarded the [[Right Livelihood Award]] in 1980 for "caring, sharing and acting with and on behalf of those in need at home and abroad."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rightlivelihoodaward.org/laureates/stephen-gaskin-plenty-international/|title=Stephen Gaskin / Plenty International|website=The Right Livelihood Award|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-08}}</ref>
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