Welcome to Tolerance International UK
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
Through our Embracing Tolerance Educational Programme we run workshops for schools, faith groups and youth organisations in greater London. These enable the youth to explore their attitudes towards discrimination and prejudices while developing their knowledge and skills to support inclusion, challenge extremism and value cultural diversity.
HELP US CHANGE ATTITUDES AMONG THE PEOPLE THAT MATTER THE MOST....
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Environmental Justice Programme: Peru
Electricity for communities living in rainforests
Tolerance International is proud to announce the commissioning of a ground breaking programme to provide electricity for communities deep in the rainforests of the Amazon. The programme will provide sustainable electricity to impoverished communities, providing lighting in their homes and computers for school children. It will also tackle reforestation by halting slash and burn activities.
Why we need to care about climate change: the UK has 1% of the world's population but we produce 2.3% of the world's CO2. Britons produce more carbon emissions from air travel per head, for instance, than any other country. People in western countries are maintaining energy-intensive lifestyles to the detriment of poorer countries affected by severe climate change. But you can do something about it by offsetting your carbon emissions. You could support our tree planting programme in Loreto, Peru. Read more...
Socio-Cultural Engagement Programmes: Africa
Cheptoo
Women and girls are by and large the main victims of repressive ancient traditions and cultures. Forced genital mutilation, honour killings and forced marriage are just a few painful examples which thousands are going through.
In partnership with the NGO Global Mission Service we work with Young women in West Pokot Kenya to provide an alternative to these damaging practices through our Alternative Rights Passage initiative and educational programme...
Please help us defeat it!
Bochoroke Self Help Group
Tolerance International is working in partnership with the community of Bochoroke in the Kisii District, Western Kenya, to promote and protect the socio-cultural and human rights of vulnerable and deprived elderly women and girls living in abject poverty in the Kisii district in Western Kenya.
Tolerance International is helping build a multi-purpose centre providing classrooms and teachers for those children too young to make the 5 mile walk to the nearest school, a medical dispensary to help tackle the major diseases affecting villagers including malaria, anaemia, pneumonia, meningitis, tuberculosis, measles and gastroenteritis and a safe clean water supply among other things.
By providing the villagers with the resources and technical knowledge, we have helped develop local capacity and channel money in to tackling the really pressing problems. However, phase 2 of the project has been stalled due to lack of funds, so please give urgently to the bochroke initiative!
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