A world of solidarity is possible

Laureates 2024

The Foundation presents the 2024 laureates of the award !

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Supported initiatives in 2024

The Foundation presents the 2024 supported initiatives !

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Our aims :

Promote the wellbeing and empowerment of underprivileged human communities by valuing and supporting their own capacities to understand and to act, their biological and cultural diversity, and their sense of solidarity—internal as well as with other communities.

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Community

There exist a plethora of human “communities” in the ordinary sense; they share a territory, a city quarter, natural resources, a language, a culture, traditions, etc. These socio-cultural communities are crucial for the work of the Foundation. There also exist human communities which are centered around one or several common issues or interests but whose members may not be linked geographically or culturally.

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Solidarity

Solidarity is first of all an attitude and a value. It means the acceptance of the other’s humanity, and turns the other into an equal subject, independently of possible social, economic, political or other differences. But solidarity is also an active engagement – between individuals, within a community, or between different communities – for instance to defend or to reinforce a common good or a common interest.

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Meeting the Stranger, this fundamental event

Emmanuel Levinas calls « event » the encounter with the other, he even calls it « fundamental event ». It is, according to him, the most important experience, which opens the greatest horizons.

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The Foundation

The Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation promotes the empowerment and wellbeing of disadvantaged human communities. By strengthening intra and inter-community solidarity the Foundation strives to improve local capacities, promote the respect of human rights, and sustain cultural and biological diversity.

The Foundation was created in Switzerland in March 2006. It has an international Board of Directors including seven members.

As of 2024, the Foundation has supported 79 initiatives and honored 38 laureates with the Paul K. Feyerabend Award.

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Building livelihood alternatives in the Petén of Guatemala

Building livelihood alternatives in the Petén of Guatemala

12 May 2013 · by · in ,

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

Cultural forests help facing climate change in Uganda

Cultural forests help facing climate change in Uganda

12 May 2013 · by · in ,

Conserved cultural forests help facing climate change in Uganda
(Implemented by the National association of professional environmentalists of Uganda; Nominator: Simone Lovera)

The initiative addresses the impact of climate change in Uganda, which is already affecting the environment as well … Read more

Peace, justice and livelihoods at Colombia-Ecuador border

Peace, justice and livelihoods at Colombia-Ecuador border

12 May 2013 · by · in ,

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

Advancing rights and forging solidarity among the indigenous peoples and local communities that voluntarily conserve their bio-cultural patrimonies in Nepal

Advancing rights and forging solidarity among the indigenous peoples and local communities that voluntarily conserve their bio-cultural patrimonies in Nepal

12 May 2013 · by · in ,

Nepal possesses a wide range of examples of territories, natural resources and biodiversity conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities in a voluntary way through their own customary laws and practices.

These – referred to in short as ICCAs– exist … 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

12 May 2013 · by · in ,

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

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