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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