Southern partners

Indian partner: Fedina

Created in 1983 in Bangalore, in Karnataka state, Fedina (FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS IN ASIA) is aimed at helping the most marginalized and oppressed people to be able to defend their rights and become actors of their own emancipation. Fedina was the initiator of a wide grass-roots network of organizations in the South of India, (...)
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Peruvian partner: ADEC-ATC

ADEC-ATC was born in 1986 from the union of two institutions with complementary actions in the field of legal aid for workers (ADEC) and their training (ATC). Since 1990, Peru has been privatizing the mining and steel sector and selling it to foreign groups whose first measure was to cut down on supposedly too numerous staff. Within a few (...)

Indonesian partner : Pergerakan

Pergerakanhttp://www.pergerakan.org/ is an Indonesian association that aims at promoting the social movement from the grass-roots, especially in rural area. For this purpose, Pergerakan proposes different supports to its members: training supports to conduct advocacy and lobbying, etc. Pergerakan is also a resources centre which can conduct (...)

Democratic republic of Congo partner : APEF

In 1996, when the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) lapsed into a regional conflict chaos which was only starting, two women, Zita Kavungirwa and Salufa Nunu decided to put their skills to the use of the women of the city of Bukavu. They founded the Association for the promotion of Feminine entrepreneurship (APEF), which combines the (...)

Senegalese partner: UGPM

In Senegal, the standard of living has been falling in the rural area, due to a deep crisis in agriculture, the main economical activity for the populations there. This crisis also affects cities, where a lot of young people (poorly or non educated) migrate in order to find better opportunities. However, when they get to big towns, they often (...)

Brazilian partner: MST

Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) is a peasant organization created in the early 1980s, when dictatorship was dying. It was the first organization of this type in Brazil. Its national size and its resistance to many repression measures made it become a social movement that cannot be ignored. The MST fights for a fair redistribution of (...)