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About
Tolerance International UK
Tolerance
International
was
set up to pioneer an all-inclusive approach to two pressing
global issues facing our world today: global warming and
extreme poverty. It is the first international NGO to have
developed a strategy that combines efforts to combat climate
change and to eradicate extreme poverty simultaneously.
This
is our Human
& Habitat (H&H) Campaign.
Since
2001, Tolerance International-UK has provided assistance to
the needy and vulnerable communities. Realising that aid and
relief are inseparable from prevention and education, we
developed a series of vocational education and lifeskill
development workshops which could be adapted to different
circumstances in different countries. We now work in
partnership with secondary schools in the UK, with local
communities, civil society organisations, and governments in
Africa, Asia, and South America to bring environmental and
social justice around the world.
Read
more about our programmes below.
 Education
Programme ‘Embracing
Tolerance’: a vocational, life skills
education programme imed at 11-18 year olds and young
adults. It is perfectly adapted to Key Stage 4 of the UK
PSHE/Citizenship programme within the National Curriculum. It
provides a context within which schools can offer planned and
coordinated opportunities for pupils to explore attitudes and
values and to develop knowledge, skills and understanding that
support inclusion, challenge racism and extremism and value
diversity. Particularly relevant at this time are the workshops
where children engage with each other around the theme of
Tolerance and how this is related to current moral issues like
peer-group bullying, gang warfare and street violence. More about the
programme...
'Embracing
Tolerance' in Morocco.
A programme is in the pipeline to set up a programme similar to
our UK
schools programme working directly with Muslim youth, to examine
issues of Tolerance vs radical, political and religious
teachings.
International
Aid and Relief Programme:
an emergency appeal for the provision of basic supplies and
water for ' Camp
Ashraf’
an Iranian refugee camp situated approximately 80 km from
Baghdad
and 70 km to the east of the Iran-Iraq border. More about the
programme..
Social
Cultural Engagement Programme :
West
PoKot, North West Kenya - working in partnership
with Global Missions Services, we visit semi-nomadic communities
to deliver 2-day workshops with the aim of establishing an
alternative rite of passage instead of female genital mutilation
(FGC) and making the case for girls to receive a basic education
as opposed to being forced into early marriage. The programme
includes AIDS awareness as well as introducing conflict
resolution techniques with regard to land disputes and cattle
rustling.
More about the programme...
Bochoroke
Village Self-Help Group: based in
Kisii,
Kenya;
a village of about 4,500 residents, which has been
affected by epidemics of highland Malaria and HIV/AIDS. The
Group aim to build a rural dispensary and also a multipurpose
centre that will serve as a kindergarten, a multi-skill
technical vocational centre for youth/adults as well as a
library. The Group also aim to build a deep well to provide
clean, accessible water, and they want to provide electricity
from the main power line 3 miles away from the village as a
power source for computers at the centre and to preserve
medicines at the new dispensary. There will be workshops to
establish an alternative right of passage as opposed to female
genital mutilation for girls passing from childhood to
womanhood. More about the programme...
Environmental
Justice Programme: Tolerance
International is developing a programme in partnership
with the government of the Loreto Region in Peru for the
reforestation of 1 million hectares of the upper Amazon basin.
This first phase of this programme has been submitted to CONAM
[the Peruvian National Designated Authority (NDA)under the Kyoto
accord] for approval as a CDM project. This is in Association
with,
Fondebosque, the national
environmental agency of Peru
and PROCREL, a consortium which includes the National
Institute of Natural Resources (INRENA), The Institute for
Investigation of the Peruvian Amazon (IIAP), Nature and
Culture International (NCI) and The University for the
Investigation of the Peruvian Amazon (UIAP).
Currently
250,000 hectares of rainforest is slashed and burned each
year in Peru.
Whilst one aim of the programme is reforestation, there is
an urgent need to educate an impoverished indigenous
population to protect their environment and to also provide
them with alternative, sustainable low-impact employment so
that they no longer need to cut down valuable trees for a
living. More about the programme...
Tolerance
International CO2 Free
Forum (TICOFF): TI-UK provides
companies with a FREE AUDIT of their
carbon footprint and work with them to provide an energy
management strategy tailored to each company’s needs. We
advise on how to make up to 20% reductions in energy costs. For
carbon emissions that cannot be reduced we advise a carbon
offsetting programme. Any company supporting one of our
offsetting programmes is given automatic membership of our
Carbon Neutral Community. Members benefit from discounted prices
and offers from other members as well as being able to promote
their own products directly to the community. As a not for
profit organization our offsetting costs are 30% below that of
any commercial company. According to a recent survey one in
three UK
consumers are keen to go green and actively seek out companies
that are 'green' and environmentally
friendly.
More about the programme...
CURRENT
CAMPAIGNS
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- Petition
to make 7th July the UK National Day of Tolerance
– see
website
For further information: email tolerance@toleranceinternational.org.uk
Address
– 34 North End Road, London W14 0SH Tel 020 7603 0062
Fax 020 7603 0068
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