15 South Africans began training in the solution-oriented approach (SFA) last October. Now they all completed the course with a certificate. The leaders of the course thus proved that the training has a solid foundation. They themselves had completed the very first SFA course from terre des hommes switzerland in southern Africa.
The criminal prosecution of violence against women in Mozambique is still a major challenge that the partner organisations of terre des hommes schweiz have to deal with. A good example of this is the recently "revised" penal code of Mozambique.
Every ten minutes a woman is raped in South Africa. Almost every second young woman under 18 has been raped once. Our partner organization LifeLine supports the victims and carries out major prevention work in South Africa. Sinikiwe Biyela, Director of LifeLine Pietersmaritzburg, will visit us on April 7 and will report on the work of LifeLine.
The Brazilian state of Pernambuco is the first federal state to adopt a policy on "sustainable living in drought" in March 2013. This is a great success for our partner organisation Centro Sabiá, which has been politically promoting the adopted methods for years.
A funeral wreath, a street parade and a dance performance in the style of One Billion Rising: with these actions, terre des hommes Switzerland's partner organisation LeMuSiCa launched the action days "16 days against violence against women" on 25 November. Three further events are to follow.
The armed conflict between rebels and the military in Colombia also affects many young people, who are often drafted into military service against their will. ACOOC, a partner organisation of terre des hommes schweiz which campaigns against conscription and for the right to conscientious objection to military service, now receives important political support from the mayor of the Colombian capital Bogota, Gustavo Petro.
Alain Zoller, Domestic Team
A wave of mass protests swept across Brazil in June. Hundreds of thousands of young people expressed their anger. Social networks played an important role in the spread of the protests. What role they played exactly will be the topic of a three-day symposium on 22 November in Weimar.
Andrea Zellhuber, responsible for violence prevention and campaigns
imagine and terre des hommes schweiz participated together in the awareness raising event STEP into action. While imagine worked with the pupils in a workshop, terre des hommes schweiz' morphing module provided entertainment during the breaks.
We'll start on Friday. The imagine festival 2013 is about to break out. This year's motto "Racism makes you short-sighted" again gives hope for exciting installations and stands. One of these stands will be from terre des hommes schweiz and will present the topic of migration.
The programme for the imagine festival in Basel on 7/8 June has been fixed! The names of the 19 bands who will play on Barfüsserplatz and Klosterhof stage have been announced this week. The line-up also includes more well-known bands such as the group Mo Blanc, which was nominated for the Swiss Music Award 2013.
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