Derechos de la Minorías

Cada promotor que ha participado durante los dos años anteriores del proyecto, serán quienes se encarguen de adoptar a un amigo o persona de la comunidad bajo la modalidad de "beca de acción social responsable". Les guiaran en el proceso de sensibilización, de capacitación y de incremento de capacidades y juntos (promotor y persona becada) realizaran acciones de movilización, documentación, monitoreo, incidencia política y trabajo de campo documentando visualmente todo lo que hayan encontrado y que pueda servir para mejorar la salud y el ambiente social de las personas con vih.
Actividades Primarias:
-Contacto con promotores que han participado anteriormente en las capacitaciones
-Ejecutar el programa "Adopta a un amigo. Beca de acción social responsable"
- Capacitación y sensibilización tanto a promotores nuevos como a quienes ya han participado anteriormente
- Emprender acciones de documentación, seguimiento, incidencia política, monitoreo de los servicios de salud, trabajo de campo y documentación visual de todas las acciones para visibilizar las necesidades, problemáticas y soluciones que hay para que las personas con vih puedan vivir en contextos sociales cordiales.
- De la documentación visual generada se realizarán historias de vida, estudios de caso y al menos una producción audiovisual para difundir un caso de éxito que contribuya a responder eficazmente en la reducción del estigma y la discriminación asociadas al vih.
- Al final del proyecto se otorgará el título como campeón comunitario

When a person is in the vulnerable situation of losing a family member carry out the necessary paperwork becomes a burden, and in many cases do not have the money needed to pay expenses.
To carry out this task, we will use a Civil partnership model with authorization to deduct taxes. In this way we can attract resources through a comprehensive program of fundraising capable of using all the methods established to carried out a group of people specialized in the topic of fundraising. Created an annual calendar which specifies the effort to perform each month

The Nisga'a Nation Speaking Contest will have grade level groups of students present speeches that share their the students thoughts and opinions about fiction and non-fiction books authored by First Nations authors. Students will be judged on a set of criteria by a panel that has received an orientation and will be awarded scholarships in the form of RESP accounts. Students will interact and expand their thinking by responding to 3 questions posed by the panel during their presentation. This contest will highlight the themes of First Nations authors, critical analysis and the "making of meaning" by our students, and be celebrated through a regionally and soon to be nationally distributed First Nations newspaper.

As a consequence of our solution, British Columbians will have a realistic understanding of the immigrant community. All British Columbians can benefit from this knowledge by coming together, which can lead to greater contributions to the province economically and socially. The primary activities involved with our solution are to conduct video interviews in communities across British Columbia and ask the general population what they believe to be true about immigrants. Then after carrying out these video interviews with the general population, we will conduct video interviews with members of the immigrant communities across BC, to ask if these beliefs are true and obtain their responses. Once we have both sets of video interviews done we will post the interviews to our website. We will also contact media across British Columbia about our project and share the results of our video interviews. With both sides of the video interviews complete and the media involvement we can create a discussion across British Columbia which will encourage a better understanding between the general population and immigrant communities. Thus, resulting in a province which comes together economically and socially.

Step by step monitoring of teaching. Evaluation the performance of the students at regular intervals so that they can be motivated. Imparting them training related to improvement in communication skills, Business Skills and Entrepreneurship. Giving them insights of future requirements of business and jobs. Ensuring overall development of personalities of the students.

This initiative will utilize Accion’s Roadmap to Inclusion which distills emerging best practices related to PWD economic empowerment into a pragmatic blueprint for action. The Roadmap categories are: 1) universal design and reasonable accommodation, 2) partnership with disability organizations, 3) human resources policy practices and disability inclusion training, 4) legal framework, 5) technology-enabled inclusion and 6) financial capability.

We will work with Fundación Paraguaya to implement the Roadmap, starting with a current capabilities assessment to determine where Fundación Paraguaya stands today and set goals for each Roadmap category. The assessment tool that is developed and tested will be shared with the microfinance industry.
Based on the findings of the assessment, the project team will develop a customized Disability Action Plan, highlighting and prioritizing inclusion capability gaps and fleshing out the steps that must be taken to address them. The team will also seek to develop two standardized disability inclusion tools to be shared with the global microfinance industry. In phase two of the project, Fundación Paraguaya will begin implementing their Disability Action Plan with the goal of addressing their highest priority inclusion gaps and doubling their clients with disabilities within 24 months.

The VWHC offers primary and secondary health care to our clients, and by use of these services it spreads from our clients through to community to increase health, betterment, and wellness throughout. We know that if our clients are taking care of themselves then they in turn will take care of their family and friends. Programming in place at present includes Nurse Practitioner hours, where our clients have access to 30 minutes with a Nurse to go over health concerns, on average a client will get 5-7 minutes with a GP. We offer Yoga by donation to women of the DTES, to allow for opportunity and access to wellness which is extremely important to personal health. Bi-Monthly we have book discussion groups to keep women engaged. Weekly we have HIV support groups for women to have discussions regarding their needs, concerns and challenges. Lastly we have a resources centre, where we have computers and resources (books, internet, and reports) for the clients to keep up to date, on Doctors in Vancouver, use of word, excel and internet to assist in finding employment.

African Eloquence is a University of Victoria student club and is connected to the African Heritage Association. We host an annual event called African Eloquence Youth Celebration.
We recruit local African youth to take part in this event, throughout the year through collaborations with local high schools. If a youth expresses interest, we visit their family to discuss the goals of the event and the commitment required. Event participants (African youth) are provided with ongoing coaching in developing a talent segment, a short essay on a country in African and in preparing for a question and answer portion. The ongoing coaching and dress rehearsal create a strong sense of community among the African youth and African Eloquence volunteers – the event itself is icing on the cake.
African Eloquence Youth Celebration is a one-night event that showcases and celebrates African culture through song, dance, traditional costume, artwork educational presentations. The event includes ten “contestants” – local African youth - who show leadership, community involvement, and cultural eloquence. A panel of community members evaluates the contestants based on quality of presentations, talents, and responses to the question and answer segment on contemporary cultural issues. The evening also features a special guest performer like African drummer Jordan Hanson, who led the audience in a brief djembe session and local Senegalese cuisine from Le Petit Dakar.
Last year over 200 community members attended and it was truly an electrifying and memorable event - made a positive impact.

Nueva Oportunidad es un proyecto innovador de reinserción social, rompe la estructura asistencialista para dar empoderamiento a una población excluída: los privados de libertad, haciendolos protagonistas de sus proceso de resocialización.
El proceso consiste en etapas concatenadas:
1. Permisos y acreditaciones: se coordinan los permisos y alianzas con el Ministerio de Justicia y Paz.
2. Ambientación de la propuesta al centro penal: se estudia la atmosfera interna del centro penal para adaptar el programa
3. Charlas y talleres "Despertando al soñador": ciclo de experiencias que capacitan a un mínimo de 20 personas por evento en temas de motivación, liderazgo y valores. Su objetivo es crear un semillero de ideas y "despertar soñadores"
4. Recepción de propuestas: de los beneficiarios del ciclo de charlas y talleres, se reciben ideas de empresa, de las cuales se seleccionará un mínimo de 20 para ser incubadas.
5. Incubación: se incuban las ideas de empresa, para estudiar su viabilidad y factibilidad
6. Link con financistas: se contacta al privado de libertad, que ya salió de la carcel, con bancos, donantes, inversionistas y patrocinadores; para obtener capital semilla para su emprendimiento. Estos fondos pueden ser no reembolsables.
7. Seguimiento: se apoya a la empresa en los primeros pasos de su gestión

Con esto, se logra un impacto integral, se rompe un circulo de violencia y se aporta a una población excluída.

This model provides the deaf women farmers with access to credit lines, market intelligence, buyers and farm inputs by the use of mobile phones. Set up support centers equipped with a pc and a GSM-phone to link up with the central hub which is the main server/database and provides an access center for the storage and retrieval of information. Each support center is managed by an agent who collects and disseminates information, assists in forming groups and arranges buy and sell deals. This model has seen the market chain shortened and reduced money going to the many brokers.

The UNLEARNing Project's™ intense marketing campaign is designed to attract users across the world who regularly use and engage with various social media tools in their daily lives. This will be achieved through: a) a strong presence on diverse social media outlets, b) advertisements in local newspapers and radio stations, c) presenting the project on local public access television stations, d) attending key local and nationwide events, e) networking with colleges and universities, f) publication materials, like postcards, flyers, business cards, pamphlets, etc., g) sponsorship and partnership with relevant political representatives and h) “link swapping” with other key local, national and international organizations, (i.e. LGBT, women’s rights and anti-racist organizations.)

To measure the effectiveness and success of this social justice interactive media tool, an experienced research and development team will extract data using a mixed-methods approach combining quantitative and qualitative data gathering methods to assess the following: The quantitative data analysis will extract: a) the total number of visits or hits to the site daily, b) the size and number of followers through Facebook, Twitter, and other social media pages; the number of site users/followers that “like” the project’s Facebook page will also be highlighted, c) the frequency of interaction between site visitors, while the qualitative data analysis will measure the resulting “action” that follows (i.e. participation in social action groups, launching a community or advocacy.)

We encourage customers to give us feedback on the purchases they make, which we then in turn show to the tailors. We're trying to close the gap bewteen the tailor and the consumer by publishing tailor bio's etc on our site. We are also planning to have video tours of our workshop and show the customers exactly how the garments are made. We want to make the whole process as transparent as possible, so the customer feels connected to our Himalayan Tailoring Centre in a personal way and not only develops more customer loyalty but also spreads the word about Fair Trade and our company. We regularily publish workshop photos and images etc on our Facebook page giving the public further access to our activities here in Dharamsala.

Our programing consists of a combination of residential and online programs to support change agents. We designed five residential workshops focused on critical needs of change agents including:

• Building Personal Mastery
• Building Strong & Respectful Relationships
• Building Conscious Use of Power
• Building Common Ground and Capacity for Social Change
• Building Sustainability

• Inner Essential cCourse
The cost of the residential programs are out of reach for many change agents, so we also developed the Inner Essential eCourse delivered at a modest cost to anyone who identifies themselves as a change agent. It was designed by highly experienced personal development curriculum leaders with the intention that any change agent could benefit from our concepts in the comfort of their own home. It is a self paced 52 week program that delivers a "mission" each week on a specific topic of relevance to change work.

What are people saying about our programs? "All activists could benefit from an opportunity to shine light into their personal “dark spots” and gain both insights and tools to build genuinely sustainable activist practices." - Deblekha Guin, Executive Director, Access to Media Education Society

"The Inner Activist program builds an environment where you learn practical tools as well as deepen your own emotional understanding of the world you want to live in and see being made possible for everyone around you. It challenges you to be and do better starting by looking at yourself." - Hawa Mire, Executive Director, Leave Out Violence