Mois : octobre 2009

• The Bonita Trust is an independent philanthropic trust, founded in 2004. Bonita’s endowment programs results from a personal commitment by its principals to help communities address some of the important health and education challenges facing them, leveraging new technologies and Internet-based solutions.
• In 2006 The Bonita Trust settled the Bonita Charitable Trust which is a registered charity in Gibraltar … (full text Homepage).

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Address: The Bonita Trust, Belvedere Trustees Limited, 57/63 Line Wall Road, Gibraltar;
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About /Mission: Community Endowment: The Bonita Trust was founded in 2004. Bonita’s community endowment results from a personal commitment by its principals to help communities address some of the important health and education challenges facing them, leveraging new technologies and Internet-based solutions.  Continuer la lecture de « Bonita Trust – Bonita Charitable Trust »

in arab, in english and in hebrew – Linked with Educating Children in Conflict Zones.

The Hagar Association was founded in 2006 by Jewish and Arab parents, teachers, community organizers and other concerned residents from Beer Sheva in order to promote cooperation, mutual trust and understanding in the Israeli Negev. To realize its vision of a better future, the Association decided to create a Jewish-Arab pre-kindergarten-12 school as well as a community outreach program. (Homepage).

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Address: Hagar: Jewish-Arab Education for Equality, P.O. Box 3369, Shikun Hei, Beer Sheva 84133, Israel;
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About: In 2006, a group of Beer-Sheva parents, academics and community activists in the city and its environs, founded the Hagar Association as a response to the present reality in the Negev, where about 600,000 citizens, a quarter of them Arabs, live side by side but in segregated spaces.  Continuer la lecture de « The Hagar School – Education for Equality »

Linked with the Mandala Trust.

• Our Vision: A world in which the rights of street-involved children are realised.
• Our Mission: The Consortium for Street Children (CSC) is the leading international member-based network dedicated to advocating, promoting and campaigning for the rights of street-involved children. We are committed to creating a better and sustainable future for some of the most disadvantaged and stigmatised children by working together to inform and inspire research and action that influences policy and best practice worldwide.
• How we work: … (about 1/2 /who is who).

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Address: Consortium for Street Children, Unit 210 Bon Marche Centre, 241-251 Ferndale Road, London SW9 8BJ, UK;
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About 2/2 /Background: … How CSC came to be: In early 1992 Nic Fenton, Director of Childhope, and Trudy Davies, Research and Liaison officer to the all-Party Parliamentary Group on Population and Development, met to discuss the need for an umbrella organisation for the newly emerging small street children charities.   Continuer la lecture de « Consortium for Street children CSC »

Linked with the Consortium for Street children, with Khuphuka Project and with Dharmagiri.

• The Mandala Trust is a member of the Consortium for Street children – a UK based network of NGOs working to promote and protect the rights of street associated children in the developing world.
• The Mandala Trust is a UK based NGO working in partnership with a variety of grass roots organisations overseas.  We have a particular focus on projects which support vulnerable children and are currently active in Southern Africa, Cambodia, India, China and Peru.(Homepage).

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Address: The Mandala Trust, The Stables, Langham Place, Rode, Somerset BA11 6PL, England;
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History: Things were set in motion when a man travelling in India met and became friends with a local man who worked as a shoe wallah.  The two would sit together each day on the side of the road as the Indian man worked, drinking chai (sweet tea), sharing stories and eventually becoming good friends.  Continuer la lecture de « The Mandala Trust »

putting a human face on the global economy

• Few of the estimated 30 million migrant workers in China’s Guangdong Province have health insurance as factories will not pay for it.  If a worker gets sick, seeing a doctor in a hospital is prohibitively expensive, costing $25.59, more than a full week’s wages, including overtime. (Feb. 2007)
• It is all too easy for factories in China producing goods for export to U.S. companies to violate the laws on occupational health and safety and work injuries with complete impunity.  The U.S. companies involved are also displaying a total indifference when it comes to respecting worker rights.” (Feb. 2007).
• Forced labor, including the exploitation of children, continues in Burma, as do extrajudicial killing, disappearances, rape and torture. (June 2008)
• … etc. etc. – see down the right column of each page.

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Address: National Labor Committee, 5 Gateway Center, 6th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA;
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About Mission: Transnational corporations now roam the world to find the cheapest and most vulnerable workers. The people who stitch together our jeans and assemble our CD-players are mostly young women in Central America, Mexico, Bangladesh, China and other poor nations, many working 12 to 14-hour days for pennies an hour. Continuer la lecture de « The National Labor Committee NLC »