The Kamenge Youth Centre is a place of peace on the outskirts of Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, which is one of the three poorest countries in the world. During the last fifty years the country has had three dictatorships, five massacres and thirteen years of war. The Centre has 39,650 registered members and also reaches out to the surrounding...
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Ms Ratjanee S., is the president of the Sisaket Communities Network. In 1996, she started a community development project in Sisaket (Thailand), without any financial assistance. This program eventually became part of the Community Organization Development Institute (CODI) 3 years later. With CODI's support, Ms Ratjanee was able to organize...
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As a young boy, James S. has experienced what it means to live on the streets of India. By creating the association Nanban - which means "friend" in Tamil - he wants to give children and young people facing extreme poverty and who are living on the street on another opportunity in their life. But above all being able to take early action...
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In a society where all data, information and agreements are validated by recording them on paper, an identity card is the primary official document that allows a person to be recognised and able to exercise their rights.
When someone suffers from a severe physical disability, lives on top of a hill that has no steps, and also comes from a very low...
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Little alleyways, electric wires in every direction, drawings on walls, children playing on the pavements, the noise of cars and bikes, children crying, tiny houses crowded together, endless tales of misery... This is the image of the “Nabaa” neighbourhood that we all come away with, the image that the media circulates.
But to its...
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The Millennium Development Goals were established in the year 2000. The deadline for the goals is 2015. Time has come to evaluate and prepare new goals. We want extreme poverty to end.
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