From their experience with collectives of excluded people and their widespread work on international cooperation for development, the jesuits from the social apostolate sector have presented in a document their reflexions and proposals to improve social policies. Facing the next government term, they want to contribute to the public debate and the reflexions shared by the different social, political, economic and religious players. Read+

67 million minors are currently out of school. Of that, 53% are girls, Entreculturas presents the report “Girls to school”, that analyses the situation that millions of girls and women live as a consequence of not being able to have access to education. Rosa María Mujica, who works at the Peru’s Institute of Education for Human rights and Peace (IPEDEHP) and Roxana Quispe, a peasant that has manage to become literate, present this study that shows that political will is necessary to achieve parity. Read+

The rain has arrived, but the situation in the Dollo Ado refugee camps is still critical. Each day, hundreds of people flee the famine that goes on in Somalia due to the drought and the conflicts, looking for a new opportunity in the neighbouring countries in the Horn of Africa. We interview Frido Pflueger SJ, director of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), East Africa, who during his visit to Spain tells us his impressions after visiting the camps. Read+

From their experience with collectives of excluded people and their widespread work on international cooperation for development, the jesuits from the social apostolate sector have presented in a document their reflexions and proposals to improve social policies. Facing the next government term, they want to contribute to the public debate and the reflexions shared by the different social, political, economic and religious players. Download (in Spanish)

67 million minors are currently out of school. Of that, 53% are girls, Entreculturas presents the report “Girls to school”, that analyses the situation that millions of girls and women live as a consequence of not being able to have access to education. Rosa María Mujica, who works at the Peru’s Institute of Education for Human rights and Peace (IPEDEHP) and Roxana Quispe, a peasant that has manage to become literate, present this study that shows that political will is necessary to achieve parity. Download (in Spanish)

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has just published the Human Development Report 2011. The report, entitled Sustainability and equity: a better future for all, highlights that, to achieve environmental sustainability in a fairer and more efficient manner, it is necessary to approach together the deep inequalities between nations and within them, especially the ones related to access to basic services like health and education. In this sense, this is highly interesting material for the work we carry out at Entreculturas. Download

Whilst the poorest countries have achieved their goals and have reversed the established education figures, the richer countries have failed in their compromise. The latest advances that have achieved that 40 million children more are schooled are in danger of being set back unless new resources are made available. The more developed countries invest 9% of their national budgets on their own education, while - of the already meagre budgets destined to Development Official Aid -, only 4% is destined to Basic Education.Faced with this reality, the Spanish Coalition for the Education World Campaign launches the document “Let’s build the future: funding quality education“, that attempts to raise awareness to the inescapable need to carry on raising funds, even in the context of the global financial crisis, to continue guaranteeing the educational work that many developing countries are doing. Download (in Spanish)