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- ANDI - Brazil
This non-governmental, non-profit organization was founded in 1992 to contribute to the development of a journalistic culture which actively investigates the situation of Brazilian children excluded from a social context. ANDI constantly attempts to increase journalistic quality and completeness in the field of children and youth rights, praising social projects, offering news guidelines, researching facts and personalities, and collecting data relevant to the protection of adolescent and children's rights. - ARTPAD: A Resource for Theatre and Participatory Development - Brazil, Peru, UK
The Centre for Applied Theatre Research at the Department of Drama, University of Manchester, UK, has been awarded £100,000 by DfID (Department for International Development), for research into theatre and participatory development practice. The award, made from DfID's Innovations Fund, will finance the production of a training/information resource in theatre based participatory development techniques. - Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS , ABIA - Brazil (Brazilian AIDS Interdisciplinary Association, ABIA)
This organization's purpose is to mobilize the Brazilian society to fight the HIV/AIDS disease. It essentially acts in 3 fronts: promoting events, publications, and supporting health policies associated to AIDS. It works on developing options for the democratization of information on HIV/AIDS, supporting government efforts and those of the civilian society, in the area of education and prevention. ABIA's activities focus on developing social intervention and research projects; organizing debates and open discussion groups; and holding seminars and workshops. - Bibliomed - Brazil
Bibliomed.com is one of the components of eHealth Latin America; an Internet company devoted to integrating health services. Created in the United States, eHealth Latin America uses the Web to provide solutions to all health system administration problems and related problems that the various participating actors in those systems have. Bibliomed.com is the first Internet portal totally devoted to giving information on, education about, and developing the technology required to provide more effective care to patients and to the population at large. Also, it is aimed at health professionals: doctors, nurses, dentists, psychologists, and all those interested in effective patient care, medical research, curing and eradicating disease, and promoting health. - Canal Futura - Brazil (Futura Channel)
The Futura channel was born in 1997 as a result of the joint efforts of the Roberto Marinho Foundation, an initiative of the Globo Organizations, and 14 other institutions interested in and committed to educational projects in Brazil. More than a TV channel, it is an educational project. It is the first private channel in the country devoted exclusively to education. Canal Futura reaches all of Brazil free, via cable, MMDS, and satellite. It does not receive any advertising revenues of any kind nor does it charge for its signal. With its 24-hour-a-day programming without any interruptions, it seeks to contribute to the educational formation of children, youths, workers, housewives, and families in general, offering professional improvement programs, training for teachers, and many other programs with educational content. - Canal Saude- Brazil (Health Channel)
The Health Channel promotes long-distance education for 2.5 million health professionals and broad access to health information for the general population. Seeks to foster debate on policies and programs in the fields of Health and Health-Related Science and Technology. Works through: production and broadcasting of television programs; production of theme videos; televised debates; televised conferences; and training courses. - Centro de Criação de Imagem Popular (Center for Popular Image Creation)
A non-profit organization that undertakes education and communication actions seeking to create citizenship awareness in the areas of human rights, education, health, environmental protection, and culture. CECIP has a team of consultants in different areas working together with communication, video, animation, and illustration experts to convert specialized contents into accessible, entertaining, and interesting products so education can become an open and participative process. - Cepia, Ciudadanía, Estudio, Pesquisa, Informaçao e Açao - Brazil (CEPIA - Citizenship, Learning, Research, Information, and Action)
A non-profit and non-government organization (NGO) aimed at performing projects that may contribute to the strengthening of Human Rights and citizenship, especially of the groups that have traditionally been excluded from exerting these rights. CEPIA awards priority in its activity to issues such as health, childbirth right, sexuality, violence, access to justice, poverty, and labor. - TV Escola - Brazil (School TV)
A Ministry of Education of Brazil Distance Learning Secretariat program that trains, perfects, and updates elementary and high school professors. Its objective is to enrich the process of teaching - learning and improve the quality of education. It was experimentally launched in 1995 and one year later it began to operate throughout the country. - MultiRio - Brazil
A multimedia company created by the Río de Janeiro Governor's Office to produce television programs, videos, Internet pages, CD-ROMs, and different types of publications for the purpose of promoting education. Its main objective is to make new teaching practices and strategies viable by using new technologies. MultiRio directly assists schools, teachers, and students through educational programs and projects, television programs, computers, printed material, and technical cooperation for the purpose of creating knowledge, values, and critical thinking in youths. It also offers seminars and training courses for both students and educators. - Chamada a Açao - Brazil (A Call for Action)
Chamada a Açao is a program that seeks to alert radio workers on the importance of basic education and to the different ways of including it in programming. It has trained more than 550 radio persons and has plans to train more than 950 by 2002, in 19 states throughout Brazil. It highlights the importance of basic education for all and radio's social role. It produced a CD titled "Sem Educacao nao Tem Jogo" (Without Education There Is No Game) with comments by famous soccer players. It produces the series "A Caminho da Escola" (On the Way to School) which is broadcast in the North and Midwest of Brazil. - Information Network for the Emerging Sector- RITS - Brazil
RITS has consolidated itself as a benchmark in Brazil for producing and disseminating information on and for the Emerging Sector, for joining civilian society organizations into networks, and for strengthening tools and training for the use of communication and information digital technologies. Through RITS, civilian society organizations share information, knowledge and technical resources and interact by using communication digital technologies, especially Internet. Included in the objectives RITS has is precisely the appropriation of these technologies as a means of empowerment for individuals, civilian society organizations, social movements, and communities. - TV Maxambomba- Brazil
TV Maxambomba is a project of CECIP. TV Maxambomba uses video to record the experiences of local people, appraise what is done by grassroots or community organisations, and brings information necessary to the understanding of people's rights. It also produces videos on local culture and programmes for children.
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