Peace Day Wall

Problem: March 21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination created in memory of the massacre of Sharpville in South Africa in 1960. This massacre occurred during a peaceful protest against the unjust laws (which restricted the movement of blacks). The protestors were harshly repressed by police with machine guns, leaving 69 people dead and hundreds wounded. This day became a symbol of the struggle against racial oppression all over the world.   For this reason, this day was ch...

Action:   Original objectives at project outset The movement seeks to educate religious communities, principally those with African roots, about their rights and responsibilities within society. They should enjoy the same respect as other religions.     Services offered:   - Documenting cases of religious intolerance and helping arrange legal support. - Popular education about religious intolerance.   Project Details Staff:  none ...

Problem: The project began with the intention of involving students in the selection of trash for recycling within the municipal public school system of São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro state to exchange the trash for rewards, but it did not achieve the results hoped for. In the new phase of the project we are working with the State public high school system and graduating students. The Graduates 2006 Project is a project to expand the student´s CV via: Career Planning, Vocational Orientation, guided visit...

Action: To work the environmental question academically   Services Offered: Career Planning Vocational Orientation Guided visits to businesses and Universities State meetings of students ready to graduate Graduation and earning of degree

Problem: This LOCALLY DRIVEN SOLUTION PROCESS is NON ISSUE SPECIFIC.   Target issues may include but  are not limited to POVERTY, CLIMATE CHANGE, PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES, ENVIRONMENTAL SCARCITY/ DEVASTATION. Whether fighting AIDS in Zimbabwe, saving rain forests in Senegal, or building healthy, sustainable communities in the USA; "7 Stages to Sustainability" empowers local and global "Partners In Empowerment" (PIE) to address locally identified threats to human and environmental security ...

Action: 1. Identify and engage Partners In Empowerment™ (local and global): community members, collaborating organizations, socially conscious businesses & other stakeholders dedicated to improving human and environmental security.   * More specifically, "7 Stages to Sustainability" emphases six synergistic social and economic sectors:       Collaborating Nonprofits– Who: Comm...

Problem: As efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions increase, so do the sources of ‘carbon financing’ and the size of the international ‘carbon market’. Greenhouse gas abatement activities can have both beneficial and detrimental impacts on the communities in which they operate. For this reason, it is vital that Indigenous communities have accurate information about carbon financing and carbon market processes at the outset – to help them make informed decisions and choices about activities that wo...

Action: This is a short guide for Northern Indigenous Australians on the impacts of and responses to climate change, particularly market and financial mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (often referred to as the ‘carbon market’, ‘emissions trading’ and/or ‘carbon financing’). The guide is intended as a first edition: comments, case studies and more information would be most welcome – please contact ingrid@iisd.org, Review Group: Conservation Review

Problem: Neuza Nascimento was constantly asked by her 10 yr old son to attend the "funk" dances in the community. He insisted so regularly that one day she acquiesced and joined him at the dance. Upon arrival, she realized immediately that such an atmosphere was unsuitable for a young boy. She began to contemplate the issue, and was disheartened that the only leisure activity for the community´s youths was to go to the funk parties.   Neuza then came up with an idea to change that reality.   Her firs...

Action: The project “A Look Into Other Things” carries out activities both within and beyond the local community.   Local Activity: The project coordinator visits the homes of community families and invites the children to participate in a get-together. In this invitation, both parents and children are informed about educational activities that will take place at the reunion. The reunions take place in an area donated by the Residents´ Tribunal.   The reunion begins with everyone saying their name an...

Problem: Nosso projeto é desenvolvido em Comunidades onde vivem pessoas em situação de extrema vulnerabilidade social que por algum motivo apresentam uma fragilidade na vinculação familiar e comunitária. São comunidades de alto risco social.   Nosso núcleo está na comunidade do Jacarezinho (2ª maior favela do RJ), existem poucos projetos sociais nesta favela. No Jacarezinho as pessoas estão longe de uma opção de vida sem violência e acabam se envolvendo nas drogas e praticando atos ílicitos. Essas pes...

Action: Programa/Projeto   Tipo de Capacitação: Prestar atendimento a crianças, adolescentes e jovens em horário de complementação escolar realizando atividades culturais, educativas, esportivas, de lazer e sociais.   Objetivos   Atender a menores residentes em área de risco social, proporcionando-lhes, alimentação, lazer, cultura e conscientização para cidadania digna e consciente através de atividades dentro e fora da Instituição como: passeios, palestra, etc. Além de preservar sua integridade físi...

Problem: CO2 rise, Climate Change/ Global Warming & World's Carbon Trade

Action: Mishu’s Plan on tackling Global CO2 rise & Global Carbon Trade:   A CO2 reduction plan was envisaged during my M.Sc. in Environmental Technology, as a class-assignment in 1999-2000. It was a low tech plan which could easily be put into practice where the whole world could come to play. The plan offered a new dimension to carbon trade for businesses. The outline was as below-   Fast-growing trees assimilate CO2 out of air fast (4 times faster than natural forests). We need to harvest th...

Problem: O Sahayog tem trabalhado com conhecimento e práticas tradicionais em pequena escala desde 1995. As primeiras atividades incluiram a documentação preliminar no setor da saúde e agricultura.   Tendo compreendido a imensa importância deste sistema de conhecimento no desenvolvimento sustentável e no fortalecimento de mulheres e dalits, uma série de intervenções, nas comunidades, foram iniciadas em 15 povoados através do CAC, Aadhar e Buniyad em seus distritos de origem, Almora e Nainital.   Esta...

Action: O objetivo tem sido, sempre, promover o processo de fortalecimento do povo, através do desenvolvimento baseado em seus próprios conhecimentos e habilidades.   Temos trabalhado para o fortalecimento dos marginalizados socialmente, focando nos problemas de saúde das mulheres e no fortalecimento através do Panchayats, conhecimento tradicional utilizando uma abordagem baseada em direitos. O foco do trabalho foi modificado, de um desenvolvimento integrado para o fortalecimento das mulheres, a me...

Problem: Abarajé surgió como forma de pasar los conocimientos de la cultura afro-brasileñna a través de la creación de talleres de culinaria. Tia Ciata, la primera Baiana que vendía los ... quitutes.... de Bahia, en la antigua Plaza XI, en la década del 10, en el siglo XX, durante el periodo carnavalezco, comercializaba ropas afro para las familias ricas del barrio de Botafogo en Río de Janeiro. Ella y sus compañeras, Tía Sabata que vivía en la Pedra do Sal(Barrio Gamboa), Carmem do Xibuco, Tía Perp...

Action: Rescatar la memoria y el oficio de los afrodecendientes de Río de Janeiro y promover la generación de renta-ingresos para las personas que necesitan de ello.   ervicios ofrecidos por el Proyecto   talleres de culinaria afrobrasileña; talleres de corte, costura y bordado richelieu-bainha abierta de ropas tradicionales de las bahianas del acarajé; artesanía de material reciclado (con retazos de algodón y botellas plásticas PET son muñecas de bahianas en trajes tradicionales); licor de...

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