THE BARKA FOUNDATION HAS:
-established ties with UN agencies
-partnered with Housatonic River Initiative, EnlightenNext, Pathways
to Peace, The Colonial Theatre, Monument Mountain H.S., Railroad
Street Youth Project, Greenagers, Center for Peace through Culture,
Women with Wings, Healing Winds
-taken on as fiscal sponsor two non-profit organizations: Devotional
Music Foundation and Future Now.
-established itself as a nonprofit in Burkina Faso and has formed two
Boards of Directors, one in the US and one in Africa
- no paid employees and is supported entirely by volunteers

BARKA Networks is the media production arm of the organization.
Its revenue will fund the Foundation's humanitarian work.
Its work consists of: TV, film & music production, music label, radio programming, publishing, conferences & events

Tune in on Tuesdays 3-5 pm ET to Jumping Off with Ina & Esu
on WBCR-LP 97.7 FM Great Barrington, live online at www.berkshireradio.org

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Bio: Esu
-aka Howard Ross Patlis
-1988-95 actor, director, author
-1995-98 Launched FOX's fx and CNNfn, produced original TV programming
-98-2001 Streaming media producer at RealNetworks & Microsoft
-2001-04 Independent media marketing & branding consultant
-Williams College'88

Bio: Ina
-Mother of 3, Grandmother of 3
-Published songstress, singer
-Maine hunting guide
-Healer
-Jewelry and clothing designer
-Gardener
-Initiated Kontomble stick, shell & voice diviner

Ina & Esu are documenting and learning Gulimanchema, the endangered native language of the Gour'mache