Paths of community learning (Ecuador)

Paths of community learning (Ecuador)

This exceptional three-year project was designed to strengthen the support provided by the PKF Foundation to the work in Paute (Ecuador) of Father Hernan Rodas (2007 PKF Laureate) and CECCA (which successfully completed in 2008 a PKF initiative for the … Read more

Conserving the ancient Thai language of Vietnam

Conserving the ancient Thai language of Vietnam

Supporting the Vietnamese Thai speakers to maintain and strengthen their traditional language in seven province of Vietnam (implemented by the Center for Sustainable Development in Mountainous Areas- CSDM; Nominator: Jason Morris-Jung)

The Center for Sustainable Development in Mountainous Areas (CSDM) … Read more

Building livelihood alternatives in the Petén of Guatemala

Building livelihood alternatives in the Petén of Guatemala

Supporting peasant organizations involved in a network of organic mini-markets to develop a local savings and loans in the Petén of Guatemala (implemented by Asociación solidaria de acción y propuesta de Petén; Nominator Andrea Finger-Stich)

This initiative takes place in … Read more

Peace, justice and livelihoods at Colombia-Ecuador border

Peace, justice and livelihoods at Colombia-Ecuador border

Supporting a Franciscan network in its work to love, defend and engage the very poor for the strengthening of their rights and improvements of their lives (Implemented by Movimiento Franciscano por la Paz; Nominator: Jael Mercedes Duarte)

This initiative is … Read more

Water and Heritage - helping a Tagbanwa community to secure their basic needs on Coron Island, Philippines

Water and Heritage – helping a Tagbanwa community to secure their basic needs on Coron Island, Philippines

Coron Island, a magnificent karst limestone island in the Palawan region of Philippines, is the ancestral domain of the Tagbanwa People of Cabugao and Banwang Daan.

In 2001, the Tagbanwa secured a Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) covering the … Read more

Sustaining nature, traditional knowledge and sound agriculture in Siberut Island, Indonesia

Sustaining nature, traditional knowledge and sound agriculture in Siberut Island, Indonesia

Siberut Island is the largest island of the Mentawai Archipelago, West Sumatra, Indonesia. As a UNESCO biosphere reserve, it features a wealth of endemic species of flora and fauna.

In the past, traditional knowledge and practices allowed the Siberut People … Read more

Promoting indigenous peoples’ action at the grassroots (Philippines)

Promoting indigenous peoples’ action at the grassroots (Philippines)

NATRIPAL is the Federation of United Tribes of Palawan and has been working to promote action at the grassroots, e.g. supporting indigenous peoples in developing their own analyses, agendas, plans, advocacy and action including against destructive mining and monocultures.  The … Read more

Organizing around the care of a watershed in Ecuador

Organizing around the care of a watershed in Ecuador

CECCA (Centro de Educación y Capacitación Campesina) is assisting the communities of Guayán, Cachiyacu and Calvario Alto (Paute, Cuenca) through joint analyses, learning and planning.  With the help of the PKF grant, the communities will be supported to strengthen their … Read more

Communities organised against usury in Madagascar: a film to understand

Communities organised against usury in Madagascar: a film to understand

MADAGASCAR –Tsinjo Aina initiative supported by Carême-Suisse

The poverty of rural Madagascar is well known. What is less known is the tragedy of usury, which in Madagascar imprisons rural people in a vicious circle of growing poverty. Usury (lending money … Read more

Community

A community is a group of persons having something in common. In this ordinary sense, there exists a plethora of human communities that share a territory, a city quarter, natural resources, a language, a culture, traditions, and much else. These … Read more

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