Latin America

Woord en Daad wants to fight poverty in Africa, Asia and Central-America from a Christian perspective. We operate in the following countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Liberia, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Chad, Zambia, South Africa. Through local organizations we want to provide a decent existence for the poor. To do this, we make an appeal to everyone's responsibility, both here and over there. Woord en Daad would like to be a strong and reliable link between you and the poor in our working area. Woord en Daad structurally cooperates with Christian partner organizations in the Education program (kindergarten, primary, secondary, informal and literacy education), the Job & Income program (vocational education and traning, job mediation, micro enterprise development and small and medium enterprise development), and the Basic Needs program (health care, water and sanitation, and agriculture).

The Swedish Cooperative Centre is the channel that the Swedish cooperative moment use for its activities in development cooperation. We are a non-governmental organisation which support cooperative development and popular movements in order to improve living conditions for poor people and give them more power in society. Our vision is a world without poverty and injustice.

Project Tomorrow: Culture and Solidarity

Sustainable Development Goal 6

Challenges dominant stereotypes and commonly held perceptions of developing countries which are prevalent in our society. It aims to use education as a means of challenging the causes of poverty and inequality in both local and global contexts by working with all sectors of education. This organization runs serveral projects in the area of development education; i.e. a Development Education magazine, a website on Global Citizenship for the Northern Irish curriculum, Community Youth Projects in Belfast. Furthermore, the Centre provides a well-assorted resource library including teaching materials, books on development issues and box files on countries and topics to support students, teachers and lecturers with their work.