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 What we do
Here you can read a short
summary about some of the programmes we are working
on:
Our Educational Programme
‘Embracing Tolerance’: Aimed at young
people aged 11-18, this programme is perfectly adapted
to the four Key Stages of the PHSE/Citizenship programme
within the National Curriculum. It provides a
curriculum 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 we
encourage young people to engage with
issues around bullying, gang culture and street
violence - increasingly evident problems on
the streets of some major UK
cities.
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more...
Our Social
Cultural Engagement Programme: We are
in partnership with a German production company to
provide high quality, low cost educational programmes
about Health, Science and the Arts, to be broadcast
via satellite to the Middle
East.
Working with the Christian
organisation Global Missions Services Inc Kenya, we are
supporting an educational programme in West Pokot,
northwest Kenya - one of the most remote and
poorest parts of the country. The project is based
around two-day workshops incorporating dance, theatre,
song and traditional debating
forums. These involve the whole community,
including tribal elders, women and young
people, with the aim of persuading
semi-nomadic, pastoralist communities that female
genital circumcision (FGC) as a Rite of Passage, and the
forced marriage of young girls, are harmful practices.
The
education programme aims to introduce an alternative
Rite of Passage instead of FGC, and introduce AIDS
awareness as well as conflict resolution techniques over
land disputes and cattle rustling. An educational
programme in Morocco
is also in the pipeline whose aims are similar to our UK
Educational Programme but working directly with young
Muslims who might be affected by extremist
teachings.
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Our Environmental
Justice Programme: The implementation of a
carbon emission off-setting project to part-fund an
educational programme for the indigenous population of
the Loreto Province of Peru. This is the most
northern and largest region of Peru,
consisting entirely of over a million hectares of rain
forest and dense vegetation. The people in the
region survive at a subsistence level.
Working with the regional government
and two long-standing, locally based environmental
agencies we are supporting a programme which aims to
deploy local people into low-impact, sustainable
alternative employment as well as making them aware of
the need to conserve their environment. Managed
forestry, replanting and fish-farming are all
alternative sustainable sources of employment.
Currently an estimated 250,000 hectares of forest are
slashed and burnt each year, with people being paid
barely 15p a tree.
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Our Research
Programmes: Contributing towards the
development of a body of knowledge and identifying best
practices, particularly in supporting the UK Educational
Programme.
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more...
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