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Introduction to the Millennium Development Goals
In September 2000, the United
Nations Assembly unanimously adopted the UN Millennium Declaration. It was
an 8 goal agenda that all 192 Member States agreed to adopt.
We, the humanity of the third
Millennium, have achieved that technological, economic and political
progress from where we can no longer justify hunger and the exclusion of
millions from basic health and education.
In 2000, the international community
acknowledged that it has a duty to recognise the fundamental rights of those
who are being excluded from the benefits of progress. At the United Nations
Assembly, all countries committed themselves to a work agenda that would
tackle the most evident factors of poverty and injustice. They set 8 goals,
they set 21 targets, they set timelines, they allocated funds: and in order
to verify if they were being honest with their commitments, they set a
number of indicators upon which they asked to be judged.
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And for the first time in world
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Why is it that the Millennium
Development Goals, that are so important for the collective identity of our
civilization, and that set the agenda of international cooperation, receive
so little attention from newsmakers? Why is it that the general public is
not informed about them?
This is a documentary on the work in
progress for the achievement of the Millennium Goals. We have travelled
extensively in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe, and we have collected
stories of those who design and implement international cooperation
projects. Here, you will get an insight into the spirit that animates their
work and you will realize what challenges they are facing on the ground.
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The project we
have proposed to European Union has been approved and we received the grant.
Armadilla will coordinate the work. We will go in different countries to
produce videos that show to the general public the work in progress for the
achieving of the Millennium Goals. These videos should be innovative
in their approach. Our target are the opinion makers: teachers,
journalist and policy makers. We should enable them to talk to their
audiences about the goals set by the United nation, the role of
European Union and National Governments in achieving these goals and explain
to the public the drivers of sustainable development. What is
important is to bypass the usual stereotypes, record the different
perspectives and give voices to the different stakeholders, including those
who do not have the means to raise their voices and make their opinion heard
by the big decision makers. Do not use the "pity-for-them" approach, but
find an angle to narrate the stories in such a way that the people portrayed
do not resent to the way you are portraying them.
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We have got an approval from the European
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We made this documentary because we
wanted to break the stereotype that only "bad news" is really "news". It
wasn't easy for us to bring the mass media gatekeepers on board the peace
building adventures. But at the end, we did it. And this documentary will
narrate our journey; of how we managed to bring onto the screen stories of
people who are excluded and those who give voice to the excluded; stories of
those who live in remote areas, far away from media spotlights.
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poverty The factors creating
poverty: "When we are talking about access to resources, we are talking
about access to resources that are available in the country...and
optimization of resources"
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Sierra Leone - Mothers Preparing Mothers - Susan and Cline Bays
Television
cameras do not usually come here but such images are familiar to millions of
us. 1 in every 3 persons in the world still lives in slums.
This is
Cline Bay, a slum area situated in the heart of Freetown, the capital city
of Sierra Leone, a small country off the West African coast. Cline Bay was
once used as a mooring for the flotillas of the colonial powers. Now, it is
home to hundreds of people who were displaced during the decades of civil
war in the country and who decided to stay on even after the war was over.
Now, Cline
bay is polluted. There is stagnant dirty water and uncollected garbage lying
around. It is a poor neighbourhood and is crowded because it is next to a
commercial area that provides opportunities for small jobs. The living
conditions here are miserable and mortality rates are high, especially among
infants and young mothers. But one can still feel the vibrant spirit of
Africa here.
One of the
major causes of poverty in Cline Bay is that girls become mothers at an
early age. Besides the risk of complications, early pregnancies force girls
to stop studying and instead look for jobs. And because they are not
educated, they get jobs that pay very little. These young mothers also have
little knowledge of child care or even basic health and hygiene, so they end
up spending a large portion of their meagre earnings on medical help. Their
lack of knowledge in basic health and hygiene is a major cause for their ill
health. And the lack of access to good health care is the main cause for
death.
We came to
the slums of Cline Bay with Josephine who is a social worker in a European
non-government organisation called Concern Worldwide. Concern has been
working in Sierra Leone since 1996. The project that Josephine works in has
been co-financed by the European Union as part of its contribution to the
Millennium Development Goals. Concern implements projects funded by various
international agencies and individual donor contributions.
Concern’s
project in Cline Bay aims at empowering women and through them improving the
lives of their families and communities. In this project, Concern works with
groups of young mothers who have dropped out of school because they need to
earn a living. The project being implemented by Concern aims at alleviating
poverty by increasing knowledge and promoting solidarity among women who
face similar challenges, problems and needs.
Josephine
herself is a young mother and a school drop-out living in Cline Bay. Concern
trained Josephine in the basics of health, hygiene and child care. Josephine
now educates the women of Cline Bay to become more responsible mothers and
teaches them safe health and hygiene practices. And she has also gone back
to school once again.
She has
changed her destiny and has started changing the destiny of others. She has
become an active agent of change in her neighbourhood.
Josephine,
and her colleagues in the Concern Worldwide team, have organised Mothers’
Clubs where women teach younger mothers’ and girls in the basics of health,
hygiene, and child care - like how to avoid undesired pregnancies, what is
safe sex, how to take care of yourselves themselves and their children
during pregnancy and after child birth. Concern Worldwide trains traditional
birth attendants in pre-natal monitoring and assistance. The Mothers’ clubs
promote regular check-ups and breastfeeding and run classes for ante-natal
and post-natal care.
In these clubs, women share their
experiences and help each other in facing the challenges of being young
single mothers. The Mother’s clubs facilitate study groups, tutoring lessons
and coaching programmes for girls. Their activities have led to a decrease
in the school drop-out rates for girls in Cline Bay. The skills and
confidence that women gain from being part of the Mothers’ Clubs also helps
them participate in parent’s associations and local initiatives.
The sense of solidarity that women
experience and the knowledge they acquire in these groups helps them gain
courage to continue fighting poverty. Every morning young mothers living in
Cline Bay leave their homes to earn their living so that their families can
eat, their children can go to school and they can care for their health and
that of their children. Their hope to leave the slums one day continues
keeps them going.
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Introduces the MDGs and traces their History
When you talk about
the MDGs you have to trace back to in the history of ideas what started in the
1990s as the idea of human development movement. So you had 10 years of a
human development movement, influencing strongly the articulation of the MDGs.
It was an idea promoted by UNDP, it was led by led by Prof. Amaratya Sen and
the late Mahbub-ul-Haq and a lot of other social scientists. You should recall
that the period 1990, or 2-3 years proceeding that, were very important years
in world history. You saw the collapse of the Soviet Union, the break-up of
Eastern Europe, the unification of Germany, so a lot of changes were taking
place in the world. And people came to realize that all the material
prosperity that you saw in terms of building in terms of comforts of living,
were important but were not capturing the essence of human progress.
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Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
The World has enough food for all but millions of people still suffer from
hunger.
The MDG1 aims
at removing the factors responsible for poverty.
Most developing
countries have good rates of economic growth; but the gap between the rich and
the poor is widening.
The proportion of
people living on less than $1 a day has decreased but 925 million people still
suffer from chronic hunger. One in every four children in the developing world
is still underweight.
In the world, 25%
people still live on less than 1.25 dollars a day. There are countries like
Liberia and Sierra Leone where high percentages of the population live in
misery.
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What do you
think are the factors which create poverty?
The first
two things which come to my mind, since i am in India is 'Inclusion'. What
strikes me here is that even though there is a very high economic growth for
many years but they do not manage to make the benefit of this growth
inclusive and as a result there are 400 million people under 1 dollar a day.
The second thing is education. So many people are uneducated, the illiteracy
rate is quite high. In addition to this there are also so many disparities
between people. There are other factors too, but inclusion and education are
the most important which come to my mind.
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India - Employment as a Right - Varanasi
Lalita (story of women empowerment)
Pramila (Village Lady at NREGA site)
Malti (Village Lady at NREGA Site)
Raju (Pradhan of the Village at NREGA Site)
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This
is a typical village of northern India. More than 70% of the Indian
population lives in rural areas. Many programmes of the Indian Government
aim at making rural India an active part of the country’s economic growth
and at helping rural communities to benefit from the fruits of development
and technology.
In
August 2005, the Indian government approved a job guarantee scheme called
MNREGA or the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act; an Act
that provides a hundred days of wage-employment per year, at 120Rs (or
$2.70) per day, to rural households whose adult members volunteer to do
unskilled manual work. This Act has promoted investments in rural
infrastructure projects, providing jobs to millions of Indian villagers,
especially to semi or un-skilled labour that live below the poverty line and
improving their purchasing power. Now, Indian villagers can stay on in their
villages for at least three months in a year, reducing urban migration and
precarious living. This Act is part of India’s commitment to Millennium
Development Goals. Many people in rural India still do not know about this
Act and lose out on earning that extra little money that can cover the basic
needs of their families. Their ignorance becomes an opportunity for
corruption among lower level government officers who supervise this
programme.
Rekha is a social worker in an Indian non-government organisation, called
Mahila Swarojgar Samiti (Women’s Self-Employment Committee). The
organisation helps rural women gain economic independence by forming women’s
groups, accessing income generation opportunities and advocating for their
rights. Rekha informs women about their rights, helps them in accessing the
rural employment scheme of the Indian government and trains them in public
speaking and leadership skills. Rekha assists women in establishing and
managing Self Help Groups so that they are able to use their new earning
opportunity to start small business activities and cover family expenses.
The
project of informing women about their rights, government programmes that
benefit them, and other opportunities to earn their livelihoods has been
funded by the Dorabji Tata Trust, the corporate social responsibility
initiative of TATA, one of India’s largest groups of manufacturing
companies. Rekha took us to one of the villages she regularly visits in the
North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and introduced us to some women who have
benefitted from the Self Help Groups and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act.
Women in this village of Uttar Pradesh are largely illiterate. Before
Rekha’s organisation started working in this village, women used to manage
their households and rarely work outside their homes to earn a living. Rekha
and her team talked to the village women about their rights and taught them
to manage small income generation activities. With the help of Rekha and her
team, women established Self Help Groups. They came together as a collective
and demanded their rights. They became self-confident and made their voices
audible in local political processes of village panchayats, the elected
bodies at the village level. They learned about government programmes and
started asking for their rights. They were now able to send their children
to schools, cover the health care expenses for their children and families
and even buy themselves new clothes and household articles.
For
the first time, women felt the joy of earning and felt empowered. They
became active members of their communities. They became protagonists of
their destinies and became agents of change in their homes and their
communities.
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NREGA – It is a right and no one who goes from a poor household and says, “I
need work” can be denied work. What is distinct about the NREGA are the
clauses to ensure better governance and accountability. Social audit, which
means that it is an audit by the people of the program, is mandatory.
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Poverty as Income Opportunities, the Power of the MDGs & Human Rights
Discourse
What is poverty? If you look at it only as income deprivation then you are
missing the whole point. Because you have to look at the poverty of
opportunity. We always say that income is an outcome, so if I find that
this person is earning I need to know why. I have to ask the question why
you are earning less and this you will always trace it back to income
opportunities. Did not have adequate education, you did not have adequate
command over resources, health.
Examples of how development and progress is not just per capita income
indicators, gdp, etc.
Delhi where below poverty line is 8% but malnourishment under 5 is 33%.
One of the biggest concern in Delhi is security of women (not just at
night but public spaces, work place, etc.)
Under 5 mortality rate is a very strong indicator of development. This
depends on income but also on education. When women are literate under
mortality rate drops. It depends also on the quality of water, sanitation.
So when you say you will reduce under 5 mortality rate you are
fundamentally talking about major changes in the standard of living. In
India it is also about women position of women in society; so comes when
women do paid work outside, a change in the thinking of society is
created. Income gives a greater voice, changes power relations,
possibility to talk to many other people. It is the opportunity that she
gets with the income.
What I really like about the MDGs is that it has thrown up a lot of
discussions and what you find in terms of a follow through of the MDGs, is
that there is no one solution. What works in Nicaragua may not work in
Mexico, may not work in South Africa.
Thailand said, we have already achieved Universal Education, our Mortality
Rate is very low, what do you expect Thailand to do? So they launched MDG
+, which said we have to achieve more. Bhutan added MDG 9 and said “zero
tolerance for corruption” and they said that by 2020 Bhutan must be free
from all types of corruption. So the nice thing about the MDGs was that,
the UN said that all the countries must adopt it and must adapt it and
localize it. So when you localize the MDGs then the debate becomes not at
a global level of ideas but much more practical in terms of policies and
programs and what are you doing about it.
The news papers cannot just cover the growth story of India, you also have
to look at what is happening to the lives of people. Can we confidently
stand up and say the environment is better in India.? Can we confidently
stand up and say the quality of schooling has improved? Can India
confidently say that access of drinking water is much better? Because
progress in society has to be measured by these indicators of human
development.
The other very important idea that is slowly gaining in is the idea of
Human Right. When you talked about human rights the idea would focus
largely on civil and political rights. But with the MDGs the economic,
social and cultural rights gained importance and now they have to be put
into the same level. You cannot say that economic and social rights are
more important than civil and political rights. So what that you don’t
have the right to vote, like in Myanmar, but the state is providing for
everything… it is not, it is not sustainable.
If you ask today why have many development projects or poverty alleviation
projects suffered. They will tell you it was top-down and the community
level, whose life it was supposed to influence and change, had very little
say. There was no sense of ownership, there was no participation.
So now with the Human Rights discourse , and saying that both economic and
social rights, cultural right as well as civil and political have to be
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Few of
us know what the Millennium Development Goals are. But people living in 26
villages of the Deogarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand do know
what these goals are. People of this village are not only aware of the MDGs
but have even developed their own indicators to measure their progress in
achieving the MDGs.
A
German non-government organisation called Welthungerhilfe implements a
project in these 26 villages of Jharkhand, one of the poorest states in
India. This project called “The Millennium Village” is funded by the
European Commission as part of their contribution to the MDGs. It aims at
raising awareness on MDGs among rural communities and at encouraging them to
integrate MDGs in their development priorities and local political
processes. Through this project, Welthungerhilfe also intends demonstrating
a successful and replicable model of community participation where
communities own and lead local development processes.
We
visited some of these villages with Babita who is a young social worker in
Welthungerhilfe. Babita feels passionately about the importance of local
communities interpreting the MDGs from the perspective of their economic,
social and cultural priorities, identifying the goal and indicators that
they consider coherent with their development priorities and needs and that
they would like to achieve. Babita and her colleagues from Welthungerhilfe
help villagers in understanding their development needs, in prioritising
these needs through dialogue and consensus among themselves and in
developing targets and indicators that they believe are important to
achieve.
The
Welthungerhilfe team, together with the villagers, also tries to understand
the gaps and challenges in achieving the targets that they have set for
themselves. The villagers then identify projects that can address these gaps
and challenges and the resources that they require in order to implement
these projects. Welthungerhilfe then provides the villagers with the
technical knowledge, skills and resources that they need in order to
implement these projects. Mining, for instance, is the main source of income
in Jharkhand and rural communities have little knowledge about agriculture.
So, the villagers wanted to learn more about agriculture and start farming
activities on the lands they own. Now, Welthungerhilfe trains the villagers
in new farming techniques like rain water harvesting, efficient use of
irrigation water, and crop rotation, in basic nutrition, health and hygiene,
etc. New knowledge and specialised support is encouraging villagers to
cultivate their farms and become self-reliant.
Now,
people can earn in the village itself. They have found a reason to stay on
in their villages rather than migrate to the city. The dreams of many
villagers have now become reality.
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"Our dreams have come
true. We can now stay on our farms instead of searching for jobs in the city
and we can eat the healthy food we grow ", says a farmer.
"If people are convinced
and there is local ownership, development will take place and it will be
sustainable", says the programme manager from Germany
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1 - Importance of NGOs, their Challenges and Limitations
Do you think we need NGOs to support
development activities around the world?
A robust civil society is hugely important in terms of democratization and
hearing the voice of people. For civil society has a more inclusive
definition which is not just NGOs but also Media. The freedom of press in
India it's is major strength... and if you suppress the freedom of Media
you suppress development.
What are their Challenges?
NGOs are having the define their role in a new world order, especially
international NGOs. What is are role now? We cannot continue to deliver
services, for in doing so they undermine the role of the Government in
doing that. My own sense it that we are now moving more towards advocacy
and policies and that it the role we should be playing... we should be
arguing to governments like India that you should put more than just 1% of
the GDP into health.
What are their Challenges?
Is whether they have an authentic voice. NGOs are very good in claiming to
speak on behalf of people but they are not democratic institutions in
their own right.
I can say that, yes, we have some very robust programs on the ground, but
that is because I am saying it... if I had the same response from
Coca-Cola, BP, Shell or even the government, I will be very sceptical of
those figures and statistics. If we are going to hold other stakeholders
and other sectors into account then we ourselves have to be much more
transparent and honest about our own structure.
14 - What are the factors which generate poverty?
It would have to be in the context of which country. In south-east Asia
and India he main factors are going to be disparity, caste, gender,
class.. they are the big drivers of poverty across this whole region.
17 - Do you think availability of resources play a role in the generation
or removal of poverty? Access to resources, proper policies, putting an infrastructure, putting
social services, social safety nets make a huge differences. India is
making some steps in the right direction specifically on MDGs on access to
water.
But the whole problem for the future in the whole of south Asia is going
to be water
18 - Do you think the worlds resources are enough to achieve the MDGs with
the increasing population?
20 - What do the MDGs mean to You? Do you see Hope in them?
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Colombia - Community at Work - Jan Pablo II
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One sixth of Colombia's population lives in Bogotá. Bogota's population, of
7 million inhabitants, will continue to grow as people continue to leave
rural areas in order to escape poverty and violence. And what migrants from
rural areas find, in big cities like Bogota, is even more poverty and more
violence.
The Government of Bogotá is implementing a bold and courageous policy of
food security: “Bogotá without hunger” and “Bogotá without indifference”.
Bogotá has come to be known in all of South America as “the city of rights”
where the right to food security is conceived as central to all other rights
of citizens. This policy is centred around the community mess (comedores
comunitarios), located in areas where most of the poor vulnerable population
lives.
In the large Municipality of Ciudad Bolivar, there is a locality named “
Juan Pablo II” which is densely populated with “desplazados” (forced
emigrants). In these localities, there is typically a high percentage of
poverty and high rates in juvenile crime. It is here where the work of the
community mess takes on particular importance, stimulating the creation new
identities around a culture of solidarity that unites youth, women and old
people.
Marisol Grenette, an active leader of Juan Pablo II is an example of a
single mother who moved out of poverty. She came to the city with dreams of
a better life. She works together with other women of her neighbourhood to
fight poverty, supporting the most needy, vulnerable, poor and homeless;
facilitating adult literacy and school education for children; raising
people's awareness on hygiene and sanitation and sharing ways of improving
the environment they live in.
The Municipality of Bogotá provides resources and space to people like her
that are able to manage public social services with a “rights based”
approach.
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Juan
Pablo II’ Comedor Comunitario
Una sexta parte de la población colombiana vive en Bogota’,
capital que cuenta en la actualidad con siete millones de habitantes, y
continúa creciendo debido al desplazamiento forzado de gran cantidad de
poblaciones campesinas y rurales quienes escapan de la pobreza y de la
violencia. De esta manera se vienen formando y no es de historia reciente,
grupos de barrios que desde los lejanos tiempos de la violencia entre los
grupos políticos tradicionales del 48, aumentan las cadenas de miseria de
esta populosa ciudad, meta de oportunidades para tantos que fluyen de cada
rincón del país, en una migración interna constante.
Tanto se ha crecido la ciudad que el gobierno distrital en su
interés de brindar un mejor servicio al ciudadano, ha venido creando en las
últimas administraciones, políticas más activas que den lugar a la
participación del ciudadano, divididas todas ellas según la identidad y la
necesidad de la variedad de grupos que conforman la ciudad; políticas que
cubren todos los ciclos vitales, creándose una gama que cubre: la política
pública para lo grupos indígenas, la política de afros, la política de
familia, la política infancia, la política de adultez y la política para la
vejez. Aplicando en cada una de estas políticas el lema de la “Bogotá sin
indiferencia, Bogotá positiva para vivir mejor”, y en donde la la lucha
contra el hambre y la garantía de una seguridad alimentaria y nutricional
para quien lo necesita, se ha transformado en eje principal y el punto clave
que da lugar a la creación de los comedores comunitarios en las zonas más
pobres y vulnerables de esta capital.
En una de estas zonas, Ciudad Bolívar, lugar densamente
poblado y con tantos problemas de desnutrición, pobreza extrema y
delincuencia juvenil el comedor comunitario del Barrio Juan Pablo II, se
convierte en epicentro para la creación de nuevas identidades alrededor de
una cultura de solidariedad que une jóvenes, ancianos y mujeres, y espacio
fértil para la creación de nuevos líderes que trabajan en primera línea.
Marisol Grandett, es un ejemplo de líder activo, que trayendo
a sus espaldas una historia de mujer sola, pobre y embarazada a temprana
edad, decide cambiar su destino, se une a grupo de mujeres del barrio que
deciden luchar contra la pobreza, ayudar a los más necesitados, facilitar la
alfabetización de los adultos,contribuir a la escolarización de los niños,
inculcar en las familias la importancia de una buena higiene y nutrición, y
compartir reglas para un ambiente sano y digno.
La Alcaldía de Bogotá provee recursos a personas como ella,
capaces de manejar servicios públicos con un enfoque basado ampliamente en
el reconocimiento de los derechos.
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Mercedes Del
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What means
participation for me?
Sometimes it seems utopian, doesn’t
it? Bogotá has increased the capacity of its citizen to participate
and the decisions take in town management policies are shaped by the
decisions that are taken at ground level by politically responsible
communities.
When we talk about "social
investment", we mean that "sociality" is an asset and solidarity is a
capital: so the manowy spent for social welfare is not "consumed" but is
invested in the gowth of our social capital.
The district administration,
specially in the
social integration secretary, have
stressed the concept that citizens are not
subjects but are sovereigns; to get ocial service is their right; to
provide this service is the duty of the public administration.
Because when somebody arrived to my
office
when I was a mayor or today as secretary
and tells me about her distress, her hunger,
the son that can’t go to school, the sick son,
these experiences are renewed and that lets
you open other spaces and open even more
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COLOMBIA - BOGOTA' - I diritti di
accoglienza per i senza tetto |
A municipality that believes it
has a duty of Hospitality towards its citizens who do not have a shelter.
Living
on the road. Many, at times, may have got into the temptation of leaving
behind all ties and start anew a life from the road. Many of us host hidden
fears that we may suddenly lose everyone we care for, and find ourselves on
the road, with nowhere to go and no one who waits for us.
In
Bogotà, as in most of the big cities of the world, homeless are many; and
here they are even more for the dark consequences of cheap and easy drugs,
and for the regular violence to which many communities are subjected. But
if you live in Bogotà, even if you are homeless, you are not without a
dignified shelter.
Hogares
de paso is a project of the Municipality of Bogotà
for the social inclusion of those
who live in the streets. Here there are many municipal “centres of passage”
where the inhabitants of the streets can suspend their wanderings and
re-plan their derailed lives. In these centres they get a place to sleep,
to eat, to wash, to get social support. But here they would not get pity by
anyone; it is their place: they have a right to it. in those weeks where
the inhabitants of the streets take a break from the streets, these centres
of passage are real homes, shared in dignity with others who are crossing
similar stages of life.
Social workers at the centre say it out with a sense of
pride: Bogotà, the city of rights. Here is a city honouring itself by
taking upon itself the responsibility of hospitality of the emarginated
ones.
So, in the midst of violence and poverty, many success
stories do happen to the guests of these “passage centres”. Being treated
as “entitles to rights” many gradually re-gain self confidence; and by
interacting with the others of the centre they sometimes find new
colleagues, return to their old professions, find new companions and
re-establish new homes.
While the city re-find confidence in itself as a strongly
tied human community: we are a city “without exclusion”. |
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Riflessioni di Stefano sul rapporto
tra progetti e impegno politico |
Riflessioni di Stefano – da scrivere |
Da registrare |
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An. Kumar 2
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Anand Kumar - 2 - The difficulty of transferring the
voices of the emarginated people to the decision makers |
take the original audio from the sequence
To be
transcripted and translated in
English !
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Danièle Smadja
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Why should an EU citizen fund the education of the poor children in
India? How would this benefit her?
I think that
supporting the education of a child is a wonderful objective, a wonderful
approach to defend human rights; because education is a fundamental right
of every child.
The second
element is that the money has been worth spending for in 2003 there were
25 million children out of school in India.Thanks to the program of the
Government of India and the EU in 2009 there were only 8 million children
out of school.
The third element
is that when a child is educated, when a teenage is going to college and
when out with a degree a student is getting a job; i don't think we should
think in terms of competitors. We should think in terms of wealth, in
terms of world economic growth. The more children are coming to the labor
market with a degree, with skills... then you make the world economy
run. Today there is so much interdependance between countries; it is
imprtant that there is economic growth in India and china for when our
countries are lagging behind, and when they are in the middle of a crises
it is then important that other countries are the locomotive of the
economic growth.
Whenever you give
money to somebody you have less for you; but you may have less now... but
it will bring you more tomorrow. And your child who is going to school in
europe, tomorrow might need the growth that an indian child is going to
produce.
In terms of
economic cooperation, today, we always have to look for win win
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Interview
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Why do you think certain governments are steadfast in their commitments towards
MDGs while others aren't? We
are committed to our goals. MDGs is an UN terminology; if you want to describe
our goals as MDGs that is a different issue. I'm making this distinction because
in our program we acknowledge the importance of MDGs but we don't call this a
commitment because of MDGs... this has been a been part of our planning process
for years. Across the world some governments are commitment some our not; in our
own country also some state are committed and some are not. Ultimately in a
democratic environment whatever a government does is because that is what the
people who elected it wanted it to do... because if the government recognizes
that if carries on doing this it won't be elected again, it won't do it
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Manoj Kumar
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Feedback to donors:
Sometimes the donors should be more flexible, because the contest in
Sierra Leone is a very dynamic contest and they should respect the local
contest and the local reality. Donors also need to give a sufficient time
to aloud the community processes, to bring the changes which are long
lasting and not just a quick change and when the donors support ended
those changes collapse.
Why the
process of sharing knowledge is completly lost, in evaluating the project
on the field? “There is a
lot of learning from the work of different organizations, NGO, donors,
even agencies, but there is very less of sharing those learning. Very
often you find the agencies reinventing the wills.
There is some coordination, but is not very effective, it don’t goes
beyond sharing those key learning and complementing each other to improve
program quality, to improve the life of the people" |
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How to close …. With Africa? |
from the Backstage ?
Backstage - Africa 1 - Stefano e
Francesco sulla spiaggia - Goal 10 -
- jolly
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Backstage - Africa 2 - Team
Dialogues at N°2 - Goal 10 - - jolly
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