Catégorie : Civil Society

housing – food – justice

Linked with Kip Tiernan – USA.

Our mission at the Poor People’s United Fund is to advocate for a change to the current policies, programs, conditions and perceptions affecting poor and homeless people and to alleviate the pain and suffering they are forced to endure. We seek to provide a consistent, resolute and credible voice for poor and homeless people and to counter the misperceptions and misinformation that blame poor and homeless people for the current social and financial crises. (About).

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Founders and Staff Bios;
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Address: Poor People’s United Fund, 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02117, USA;
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A Message from Kip, (on the Homepage): Dear Brothers and Sisters,

For over 25 years Fran Froehlich and I have been friends and human services colleagues with a thirst for justice, working in the trenches of suffering. We have spent years helping to create an ethic that might meet these new desperate needs, and we have been responsible for creating and supporting a number of human service alternatives.

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also in german (Bildung statt Fundamentalismus)

Linked with Reinhard Erös – Germany, with Fighting for peace with the weapons of literacy, with The International Council on Security and Development ICOS, and with POPPY FOR MEDECINE.

The GERMAN AID for AFGHAN CHILDREN GAAC is a private initiative of a family in Regensburg, Germany: Dr Reinhard Eroes, Annette Eroes and their five children Veit (24), Urs (22), Welf (21), Cosima (12) and Veda (12). The organization was created 1998 to aid the medical and educational needs of Afghan refugee women and children in Pakistan and Afghanistan … (about 1/2).

Homepage /start / lectures in english /our partners;
download printable information, in english,
Projects:

• Paghman Trutz High School
• Schools at Jalalabad
• Village School of Zawa
• Village School of Chewa
• Sir Peter Ustinov School
• Start of Building Additional Schools
• « Iron Cow » (Milk Supply for Children)
• Mother-and-Child Hospital
• Unicef
• Basic Health Units
• Orphanage « Children`s House Afghanistan

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Afghanistan;
Address: Dr. med. Reinhard und Annette Erös, Im Anger 25, 93098 Mintraching, Germany;
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About 2/2: … GAAC evolved through German Federal Armed Forces physician Dr. Eroes and his great expertise, acquired in over twenty years of related work. During these years, he worked extensively with UN and international relief organizations to provide humanitarian and disaster relief within the area as well as in India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Iran, Albania, Rwanda and East-Timor. Dr Eroes worked in and for Afghanistan since 1985.

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formerly known as The Senlis Council (London)

Linked with Reinhard Erös – Germany, with Kinderhilfe Afghanistan /German Aid for Afghan Children GAAC, and with POPPY FOR MEDECINE.

ICOS is an international policy think tank committed to implementing change at all policy levels, by bridging the gap between people and policy in three key areas: … (about 1/2).

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POPPY FOR MEDECINE;
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Links;
Centre of Excellence on Public Security‘s website;
General Info: Tel +44 207 953 3755 (UK), e-mail.
Contacts (with 6 addresses worldwide).

About 2/2: (three key areas): …

GLOBAL SECURITY PROGRAMME:

The Global Security Programme aims to support innovative political leadership on security and development crises in conflict zones. Through field research such as the ICOS survey of 17,000 Afghan men on their perceptions of current security and development issues in Afghanistan, the programme provides policy-makers and the wider public with informed strategic response options, and the grassroots perspectives necessary to unlock progress.

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Linked with Kate Michelman – USA.

The right to choose is about more than a woman’s right to safe, legal abortion. Freedom of choice encompasses preventing unintended pregnancy through sex education and improved access to birth control, defending a woman’s right to bear healthy children, defending the independence of our nation’s courts, and addressing the inequities in reproductive health care … (Issues 1/2).

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Choice Action Center;
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Address: NARAL Pro-Choice America, 1156 15th Street, NW Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005, USA;
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About:
Our website is the first stop where you and pro-choice Americans from all walks of life can get the information, tools, and inspiration to make a difference.

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Linked with Aruna Roy – India.

Website of the MKSS (Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan), Rajasthan, India: Among the pioneers of the Indian RTI (Right to Information) movement. This website contains articles, writings, social audit reports, videos, online tutorials, RTI Act/Rules, sample petitions and other tools and information, about the MKSS, Right to Work and Employment Guarantee and the Indian RTI movement … (Homepage).

Online RTI Training;
Presentations;
RTI in action;
RTI Acts;
Sample Petitions;
Writings;
Credits;
Recent Posts;
Forums;
Links;
Address: MKSS, Head Quaters: Village Devdoongri, Post Brar, District Rajsamand, Rajasthan, India;
Contact.

About: … Right to know, right to live – Building a campaign for the right to information and accountability – Sowmya Kidambi. Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS)- Championing the « Right to Information » in Rural India – Soumya Kidambi.

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