Entreculturas and our local partners in the field, Fe y Alegría Haití and the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) keep on accompanying the victims. According to JRS América Latina y Caribe, the life of Haitian people has became more difficult lately. Even after the announcement of the government to relocate the displaced people from the camps, there is no clear strategy for the future. "Residents are threatened all the time from the owners of the lands, who even cut them basic services like water. The population, abandoned to their destiny, is waiting to be relocated and for the basic needs", JRS announced.

El pasado 29 de julio, con las primeras inundaciones y desprendimientos de tierra provocados por el monzón, empezó la pesadilla de Pakistán. Hoy las cifras oficiales ya suman 20 millones de afectados y 1.600 muertos, que seguramente aumentarán debido a las epidemias. Entre los damnificados hay más de 6 millones de niños y niñas, cada vez más vulnerables frente a la malnutrición y los brotes epidémicos. Aunque Entreculturas no trabaja en el país, queremos llamar la atención ante una de las crisis humanitarias más graves de los últimos años.

For the first time ever in Spain, NGOs, companies and civil service have signed a Statement of Intent about to constitute a public-private alliance for development in Peru.

At the beginning of July, Entreculturas, represented by our Institutional Relations Coordinator, Mª Jesús de la Fuente Guitart, wrote her signature together with the maximum authorities of Ayuda en Acción, Jaime Montalvo Correa; Fundación Ecodes, Víctor Viñuales; Solidaridad Internacional, Juan Manuel Eguiagaray; Grupo Santillana, Emiliano Martínez Rodriguez; Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, Manuel Méndez del Río Piovich; Telefónica Internacional, José María Álvarez Pallete, and the Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Soraya Rodríguez.

The horizon of 2015, date in which the Education for All goals in the Dakar Framework of Action should have been reached, is just the reason for Entreculturas, together with Ayuda en Acción and Educación Sin Fronteras -members of the Spanish Coalition of GCE- try to intensify awareness raising, training and mobilization around this matter with AECID support during the next four years.

This way, the agreement includes the investigation, organization, information diffusion and analysis of good working practices in order to count with rigorous and useful data which show the steps forward done and the unresolved challenges. These good working practices will concern the goal of a quality education for all in the South, and the awareness raising, training and mobilization that teachers, management teams and students have carried out in the North. The information obtained about the role of education in the development process will be used to catch media attention.

"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.

From Entreculturas, we support the Spanish Coordinator position which explain that the actual crisis context can´t be an excuse to going back on international cooperation, but on the contrary, because crisis is increasing, precisely, the poverty levels. The State Pact has demonstrated to be a useful instrument, based on the consensus, and his spirit has been reflected through the main documents and policies of the Spanish Cooperation -like the III Director Plan or other documents at regional, provincial and local levels-.

Taking advantage of one opportunity as high as the 2010 FIFA World Cup, held for the first time in an African country, the Global Campaign for Education, together with the FIFA organization, started the 1 Goal: Education for All campaign, in order to get, at least, 30 millions of people involved, to remember their governments the agreement they got in 2000 to achieve the Education for All goal in 2015.

With this initiative, supported by a large number of Ambassadors like Shakira, Jessica Alba, Ban Ki-Moon and a hundred of football stars, we tried to remember the governments from the north, south and the International Organism, that still for 72 million of boys and girls is not possible to go to school. We also tried to demand the funds that are urgently necessary to get this goal.

Con la sala de conferencias completamente llena, el jesuita habló de la situación del país 6 meses después del trágico terremoto. Nos transmitió la importancia de que sean los propios haitianos quienes decidan qué quieren para su futuro, ya que de lo contrario la imposición les vendrá, de nuevo, del exterior.

El análisis de la actuación de las diferentes ONGD que llegaron al país a raíz del terremoto también fue parte de la conferencia de Pampols, quien valoró muy especialmente a aquellas organizaciones que se pusieron al servicio de los estamentos públicos haitianos sin buscar ningún tipo de protagonismo. Destacó en concreto la importante labor que Fe y Alegría en colaboración con el Servicio de Jesuitas de Refugiados y Migrantes sigue realizando apoyando a las víctimas del terremoto.

El pasado 29 de julio, con las primeras inundaciones y desprendimientos de tierra provocados por el monzón, empezó la pesadilla de Pakistán. Hoy las cifras oficiales ya suman 20 millones de afectados y 1.600 muertos, que seguramente aumentarán debido a las epidemias. Entre los damnificados hay más de 6 millones de niños y niñas, cada vez más vulnerables frente a la malnutrición y los brotes epidémicos. Aunque Entreculturas no trabaja en el país, queremos llamar la atención ante una de las crisis humanitarias más graves de los últimos años.