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Sustainable Development: launch of the youth project on the Earth Charter Pointe-noire

This project aims to strengthening Youth activism on sustainable development using the Earth Charter as tool for change in Pointe-noire in Congo, and is implemented by AZUR Development with support from the Earth Charter Youth Initiative. The project will involve 300 young girls and boys in secondary and high school schools in Pointe-noire. These activities are conducted jointly with a local organization, the CJESS. The project also looks at an innovative way to use radio and SMS to support their activism, the most powerful media in the country, to understand their potential and impact on their rights.

Young people have started organizing discussions and exchanges on the Earth Charter ethical principles and themes in secondary and high schools in the area. These discussions cover issues such as ecological integrity, social justice and economy, democracy, peace and non violence. The project will support the best ideas that will emerge from the discussions on the Earth Charter principles and themes in the schools to enable youth to be agents of changes in their communities.

Environmental protection: indigenous women and their families involved
AZUR Development in partnership with ACIP has started a project to educate on environment preservation and creation of alternative income-generating activities for 14 indigenous families in Lékoumou. This project led to sessions for environmental education and learning of the making of soaps by indigenous women and the acquisition of farming tools to promote alternative income-generating activities outside of the forest. This project was funded by The Rainforest information centre (RIC).

Environmental education workshop for activists in Central Africa REEDDAC II
AZUR Development has actively participated in the last sub-regional REEDDAC (network of environmental educators in Central Africa) workshop. Indeed, REEDDAC workshop was held from 17 to 19 December 2008 in Brazzaville, with the theme "Environmental Education for the fight against poaching." The objectives of this workshop was the validation of the directory of those involved in environmental education in Central Africa and the development of a sub-regional environmental education network for the fight against poaching. More information on this workshop in French.