Kyrgystan NGO Executive Director Visits IYFD

In mid-March, IYFD was honored to host Garth Willis, the founder and executive director of The Alpine Fund. Garth was brought to Missoula by Jess Lewis and Lukin Murphy (both of Cohort III), who applied for funding through the Office of International Programs after meeting Garth in Minneapolis. The Alpine Fund is a small, locally based, non-profit, non-governmental, secular organization that uses the incredible mountain resources of Kyrgyzstan to help the country’s most vulnerable youth challenge themselves for future success. For more information, check out www.alpinefund.org and the article that was featured in the Missoulian.