Many activities have been carried out in these three years of work: ten educational programmes on various “hot” topics concerning global justice and North-South relations have been provided to schools and tested, a didactic handbook for teachers has been published, dozens of events have been organized involving schools, youth groups, local authorities and other civil society stakeholders; a network of schools, youth groups, teachers and educators has been set up. All this while fully respecting the specific characteristics of each community, but at the same time trying to maintain a common (...)

When people in poverty talk of their experiences, they do not just talk of deprivation – although of course that is key. They don’t characterize their lives by whether they have $1 a day, or $1.25. They talk of whether they can send their children to school, and whether that school, along with their home, will be bulldozed in the morning. They talk of living in fear of violence, of being treated like criminals, of being excluded not just from the perceived ‘mainstream’ society but also from decisions taken on their behalf, of never being listened to. They talk of arbitrary arrest, of losing (...)