e-entreculturas July / August 2010

Haiti: hurricanes season half a year after the earthquake

Last 12th July it was the sixth anniversary of the earthquake that killed 220.000 people and left more than un million of Haitian people without a place to live. Half a year later, the situation hasn't been resolved for the survivors of the island. With the arrival of hurricanes and raining season, people living in the camps are afraid that their conditions of living would get worse and they complain about the lack of help from the Haitian State. Read+

The "1 Goal: Education for All" campaign also wins the 2010 FIFA World Cup

By now everybody knows the 2010 FIFA World Cup winner but, how many people have heard about "1 Goal: Education for All" victory? This initiative, supported by th Global Campaign for Education and the FIFA organization, has got a large numer of achievements during the football celebration: 14 million of signatures, 1 million of followers every week and 100.000 of yelow cards sent to the international leaders. All of this witout mentioning the first World Leaders Summit related to a sportive event, which took place mid July in South Africa. Read+

CONGDE: “The deal makes even more sense in this context of crisis”

As the Spanish Coordinator of NGOs has reported, "all political parties have reiterated their commitment to the fight against poverty, pledging to step up efforts to achieve the MDGs and improving international cooperation in Spain". "We reaffirm the validity of the State Pact against Poverty and we promise to make the International Cooperation policy a real State policy". With those words, all the political parties with parliamentary representation have subscribed in Madrid the statement resulting from the fourth Monitoring Committee of the State Pact against Poverty. Read+

And also...

	Entreculturas takes part in the first public-private alliance for development in Peru
	The Spanish Agency for International Develoment Cooperation supports Entreculturas’ work in education with two new agreements

Publications

JRS new website

The Jesuit Refugee Service has released its new website with a more modern and clean design and with the most updated content. Do not hesitate to come to discover it! www.jrs.net

JRS Annual Report 2009

In this report, we take a closer look at JRS projects in urban settings, in cities as diverse as Bogotà, Phnom Penh, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Rome and Amman, to mention a few. Accompanying forcibly displaced people in the city means visiting them at home, getting to know and attending to their multiple unmet needs, including help o get documentation, food, access to healthcare, education, and cash to pay the rent. It means creating safe opportunities for them to meet, for children and teenagers to play and study together, instead of spending all the time in their small, often overcrowded homes. Download

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