Seeds of Tolerance | Issues

The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival
and Hope
Photographers: Susan Meiselas, Sylvia Plachy, and Lekha
Singh
Curators: Anna Lopriore
Focus: To use photography as a medium for human rights
awareness, discussion, education
Region: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe, Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Rwanda, Africa, Afghanistan,
Middle East, Colombia, South America
Issues: Armed Combat, Children & Youth, Gender, Human
Rights, Peacebuilding, Public Health, Poverty

Europe's Darkest Corner: Photographs from Chechnya
1994 - 2005
Photographers: Heidi Bradner, Stanley Greene, Mikhail
Galustov, James Hill and Thomas Dworzak
Curator: Anna Lopriore
Focus: To use photography as a medium for human rights
awareness, discussion, education
Region: Chechnya, Europe, Central Asia
Issues: Armed Conflict, Children & Youth, Human Rights,
Public Health, Poverty

Contra El Olvido: Testaments on Colombia's Conflict
Photographer: Jesus Abad Colorado
Curator: Ellen Tolmie
Focus: To use photography as a medium for human rights
awareness, discussion, education
Region: Colombia, South America
Issues: Armed Conflict, Children & Youth, Human Rights,
Peacebuilding, Poverty

Dance For Tolerance
Focus: To break the vicious cycles of violence among
youth and promote positive social change through the
medium of dance.
Region: U.S.A., North America, Colombia, Brazil,
South America
Issues: Armed Conflict, Children & Youth, Peacebuilding,
Poverty, Tolerance

Caritas
Region: Jordan, Middle East
Issues: Poverty, Tolerance
Mission Statement: Caritas fights poverty, exclusion, intolerance and discrimination. More importantly, it empowers people to participate fully in all matters affecting their lives, and it advocates on their behalf at national and international forums. Caritas promotes partnership: local autonomy is paramount in ensuring effective teamwork for the good of all. By pooling expertise and resources, Caritas is able to identify issues at the grassroots, analyse them at national and international levels, and then take action locally, regionally and globally.

CARE
Region: U.S.A., North America
Issues: Capacity Building, Gender, Poverty, Public Health
Mission Statement: CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources.

CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives. Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global diversity, resources and experience, we promote innovative solutions and are advocates for global responsibility.

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
Region: U.S.A., North America
Issues: Gender, Human Rights, Poverty, Public Health
Mission Statement: The mission of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) is to ensure the fundamental human right to reproductive health care for Latinas, their families and their communities through education, policy advocacy, and community mobilization.Latinas face a unique and complex array of reproductive health and rights issues that are exacerbated by poverty, gender, racial and ethnic discrimination and xenophobia.

These circumstances make it especially difficult for Latinas to access reproductive health care services, including the full range of available reproductive health technologies and abortion services. We believe that in order to substantially improve the reproductive health of Latinas and protect their rights to exercise reproductive freedom, NLIRH must locate reproductive health and rights issues within a broader social justice framework that seeks to bring an end to poverty and discrimination and affirms human dignity and the right to self-determination.

Women's Agenda for Change
Region: Cambodia, Asia
Issues: Capacity Building, Gender, Poverty
Mission Statement: In this strategic plan, the Womyn's Agenda for Change (WAC) further evolves and matures into a locally run independent NGO. This step is the natural outcome of the past six years of work, which laid the groundwork for this evolution to happen. The WAC program has been operating in Cambodia since inception in late 1999, originally a project of Oxfam Hong Kong.

The previous Strategic Plan (2004-2006) saw WAC become an independent but still expatriate managed NGO. Many development challenges exist in Cambodia, notably the realistic addressing of the root causes of poverty through true grassroots empowerment and action. WAC has demonstrated that it is uniquely positioned to be able to undertake activities that challenge development hegemony, educate and assist the grassroots, organise and effect social change. This plan further refines the organisational goals based on our strengths and the challenges that still exist.

Creative Exchange
Region: UK, Europe
Issues: Conflict Resolution, Media, Poverty, Public Health, Transitional & Restorative Justice
Mission Statement: Creative Exchange's activities help people connect and share ideas and skills, learn about the use of culture and arts in social settings, and change and influence policy and practice. Creative Exchange projects are gathering knowledge about new ways of fighting poverty, conflict, ill-health and injustice.

We focus on Culture as identity and values, and Arts as a way of expressing our identity and our ideas, and exploring opportunities for change. If culture is an important landscape for human development then the arts is the soundtrack - we need to understand how they are collectively contributing to our future and to resolving some of the challenges we face.