Born in 1938 in Germany, I pioneered Associação Comunitária Monte Azul, Alliance for Childhood in Brazil, and co-founded the World Social Initiative Forum. I stand up for upholding human dignity in all walks of life. …
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Text: Daisuke Onuki [JP] | Photo: Max Anderson [@thepicnictree] As of June 25, a total of 18,110 cases and 968 deaths have been reported in Japan. Those are significantly low figures compared to European and American countries.…
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Text: Vanusa Coutinho, Patricia Dunker, Grace Caballi, Rogério Coutinho, Valéria Rückner (Coordinators Team, Associação Comunitária Monte Azul) The first COVID-19 case in Brazil was confirmed on the 26th of February, 2020 in São Paolo. By mid-March, the government…
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Forum organizer & SIF Board Member Daisuke Onuki gives us an overview of WSIF Japan 2018: Knowing Self through Others & its central theme “Empathy”, presenting the encounters, questions & new initiatives arising out of…
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Text: Andrea dela Cruz [ES] | Photos: The Social Initiative Forum [CH] “It is by placing itself in constant places of risk that the human identity grows and develops. Can we take up the challenge…
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Video: Juan Bottero [AR] & Osmer Productions [CH] “…the forum’s objective is to show young and old generations that we can actually be ‘world citizens’— to set free this inner spark of world citizenship for…
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Text: Vanusa Coutinho [BR] | Photo: Vanusa Coutinho [BR] Vanusa Coutinho grew up in the favela of Monte Azul, where she met Ute Cramer and some of her co-workers as a child. Years later, she…
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Monte Azul International e. V. invites you to Monte Azul Culture Days 2018! This year’s focus is on preparing a book release for the 40th anniversary of our parent organization in Brazil. We would like…
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Text: Andrea dela Cruz [ES] | Photos: The Social Initiative Forum [CH] At Easter, more than 300 people gathered at the 2018 Social Initiative Forum in Japan to attend a 5 day long event exploring…
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