Five Projects To Receive Disney Funding Thanks To Kids Around The World

Disney Friends for Change Takes the Initiative Worldwide
Five Projects To Receive Disney Funding Thanks To Kids Around The World

Disney today announced the latest results of voting by kids on the Disney Friends for Change website.

The award amount is contingent upon how many votes each project receives. This is the third round of award voting, and the first to include international votes. The results are as follows:

First Place, $100,000 award: BirdLife International, Saving Spoony's Chinese Wetlands

Second Place, $50,000 award: The Nature Conservancy, Protecting Canada's Great Bear Rainforest. This is the first Disney Friends for Change program funded in Canada.

Third Place, $50,000: Fauna and Flora International, Iberian Lynx Habitat Conservation. Fauna and Flora International has received $150,000 from Disney Friends for Change since its launch.

Fourth Place, $25,000: ECOLIFE Foundation, Aquaponic Economics: Going Ape in Cameroon: The ECOLIFE Foundation.

Fifth Place, $25,000: Conservation International, Restoring Wetlands in Namaqualand. This award brings the total amount of support received by Conservation International from Disney Friends for Change to more than $50,000.

Since its launch in May 2009, Disney Friends for Change has already inspired more than 2.5 million kids to take more than 3 million actions to improve their environment in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe. Altogether, kids have pledged to save more than 1.5 billion gallons of water, recycle eight million pounds of trash and cut 52 million pounds of carbon emissions.

For more about the programs Disney Friends for Change supports, visit www.disney.com/projectgreen.