por Patrícia | ago 21, 2021 | News
The Women Guardians of the Seeds Collective strengthens its support network and develops the commercialization of quilombola women’s products Black and quilombola women rely on support to commercialize babassu coconut oil and its derivatives, overcoming the...
por Patrícia | ago 15, 2021 | News
“Women are like water and roots: when they come together, they are stronger”. With this inspiring phrase Sônia Mota, Executive Director of the Ecumenical Coordination of Service (Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço: CESE), opened the Workshop on Gender and Race in the...
por Patrícia | ago 12, 2021 | News
Throughout the 30 years in which she’s lived in the Linha Community, in the Ibura neighbourhood of Recife, Terezinha Francisca de Jesus has been one of the area’s great pillars of strength and resistance. In the absence of the public authorities, she describes how...
por Patrícia | ago 7, 2021 | News
As part of Black Women’s July – and for 25 July: International Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Day (in Portuguese) – ALC News interviewed CESE’s new President, Pastor Helivete Bezerra. Helivete Bezerra is a graduate in Psychology from the...
por Patrícia | ago 5, 2021 | News
The Casa na Luz project, made possible through CESE’s small projects programme, provides activities for refugees in São Paulo Venezuelans, Haitians, Angolans and Bolivians. These women came to Brazil from different parts of the Americas and Africa, hopeful of better...
por Patrícia | jul 27, 2021 | News
Drafts, notes or reminders – some of the names for something that’s become increasingly common: that group on a messaging app in which only the smartphone owner participates. They are generally used to note down important things – ideas, appointments, agendas,...
