"There will be a time without time. A way without a way." This statement about the changes that occur over the years came from Joana Benedito, the matriarch of the Mesquita Quilombo, who, at 98 years old, clearly and wisely expresses the words she heard as a...
Applications close on 30 June and are open to indigenous organizations in the Amazon. On 24 April, in the COIAB tent at the 20th Free Land Camp (Acampamento Terra Livre: ATL), the Ecumenical Coordination of Service (Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço: CESE) and the...
On 20 and 21 April, a training meeting brought together 25 young people from the Young Indigenous Communicators Network of the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira: COIAB) to...
In Brazil, 27 April is National Domestic Workers Day, in honour of Saint Zita, an Italian woman who is the profession’s patron saint. Beyond this religious reference, 27 April is a date for the struggles and demands of a labour category whose profile represents a...
São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Amazonas), where indigenous people represent 93.2% of the population, is one of the most indigenous municipalities in Brazil. Despite these numbers, education remains a worrying challenge for the young people in the city, which has had dire...
Between 18 and 21 April, leaders of the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil: IEAB) visited the offices of the Ecumenical Coordination of Service (Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço: CESE), in Salvador (Bahia), to participate in...
Fostering communication networks and sharing knowledge were the main points in a cycle of online workshops involving approximately 35 indigenous people, from different peoples in the Legal Amazon, over three online meetings that took place between 27 March and 4...
“Candelária,Carandiru,Corumbiara,Eldorado dos Carajás…[...] The pedagogy of steel strikes the body, this atrocious geography” * Twenty-eight years ago, newspapers and newscasts around the world carried headlines depicting brutality against rural workers. Images...
Women’s movements and organizations are like different pieces of fabric! A patchwork quilt of threads that criss-cross stories, tracing pathways and constructing plurality. Through the metaphor of the art of sewing, women’s organizations from the Northeast...
To raise awareness and mobilize religious communities to coordinate their local fundraising work, as a strategy for institutional sustainability. This was the aim of the Local Fundraising Course held between 19 and 22 March in the city of Belém (Pará). The training is...
