YAKA – France, Senegal, Tunisia
Yes Akademia focuses on cross-cultural, community development through empowerment programs with young people aged 15-35 from marginalized inner-city neighborhoods or rural areas. Participants improve leadership and organization skills via pedagogical workshops (in France and abroad) and civic engagement with local youth. In parallel, local participants gain the skills to independently continue these programs.
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Ukuwela – South Africa
Carpe Diem School, government school for learners with disabilities in George, launched Ukuwela, a skills training and employment program for learners with disabilities, to address the unacceptably high unemployment rate amongst school leavers.
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Phyang Guru Lhakhang – Tibet - COMPLETED
Tibet Heritage Fund's main mission is to carry out conservation and restoration programs on traditional and historic buildings in Tibet. This action is also part of a global approach to the transmission of skills and techniques, as well as the development of income-generating activities.
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Third Age Caregivers – Lebanon - COMPLETED
Moubadarat Wa Kararat Association is a Lebanese association aiming to improve development, advocacy and leadership in Lebanon. One of its projects is to provide training sessions to caregivers to support elderly people and their well-being in different regions of Lebanon.
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Terre & Humanisme - Maghreb countries - COMPLETED
Terre & Humanisme shares, transmits and supports ecological, humane and solidarity-based agriculture. It targets both individuals and professionals, and relies on a solid network of partners and agroecology facilitators in France and abroad.
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BiblioBus – Cambodia - COMPLETED
Brickyard Program - Cambodia
SIPAR aims to promote education and the development of reading habits in Cambodia. It supports brickyard workers’ families in the suburbs of Phnom Penh by promoting their socio-educational development.
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Sabrina Poignet – COMPLETED
Sabrina Poignet was a young soldier when she had a serious car accident on a mission in 2002 and had both legs amputated. During her rehabilitation, she discovered fencing. Sabrina asked us to support her on her way to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
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Power for Small Heroes - Germany
Stiftung Valentina (Foundation) was created in 2016 by the family of Valentina who suffered from an aggressive bone tumor and sadly died at the age of 13. The main objective of Stiftung Valentina is to close the funding gap for palliative care for terminally ill children and provide quality of life for the last chapter of their life.
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Piers Mulvey – UK - COMPLETED
The 2041 Climate Force Antarctic Expedition was organized to raise awareness about Antarctica, climate change as well as the Madrid Protocol that protects the region as “a Natural Reserve Land for Science and Peace” and its potential cancellation. Piers Mulvey, 22 years old, asked for our support to complete his budget to participate in this expedition.
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Passerelles Numériques - Cambodia
Passerelles Numériques enables very vulnerable teenagers to access education and technical / professional training in the digital sector, thanks to their skills, abilities and willpower. To develop true employability for the teenagers, which will allow them and their families to get out of poverty in a sustainable manner.
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