At the beginning of December, a new fair-trade shop will open its doors, for the Christmas and New Year season, in the upscale and tourist area of Miraflores in Lima. The Tarpuy cooperative’s items, mainly knitwear and jewellery, will be on sale (tarpuy means “to sow” in Quechua). Women from the cooperative have been trained for the past year by the urban development Institute Cenca, partner of Frères des Hommes, mastering weaving techniques, elaborate knitting patterns and the techniques of (...) Next ...

Sosoma is both the name of a highly nutritional food product, and of a new Rwandan company. Up to November 2008, Sosoma was a production unit belonging to the association Duhamic-Adri, partner of Frères des Hommes. Today, Sosoma has become a public limited company in which Duhamic-Adri is still a large shareholder. A large part of Sosoma’s profits go to financing the activities of Duhamic-Adri, which supports local initiatives in the Rwandan countryside, thus guaranteeing its financial (...) Next ...

A Conference for fisherwomen in a country where to be a woman and fisherman is a daily struggle - this is indeed news! The Conference was held in Hyderabad in the south-eastern province of Sindh, Pakistan, on 31 August, 2008. More than a thousand fisherwomen, from the civil society or from political organisations from various locations travelled to Hyderabad to participate in the event. Led by Tahira Ali Shah, vice president of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), these women made (...) Next ...

The conflict currently raging in North Kivu has cast thousands of refugees out into the streets, and the violence is destabilizing the entire region. In the neighbouring province of South Kivu, the peace is fragile. L’Association pour la promotion de l’entreprenariat féminin, Apef (Association for the promotion of woman entrepreneurship) is contributing to the maintenance of day to day peace by developing economic opportunities for women. Indeed, a part of the population depends on the (...) Next ...

This article was published in the October 2007 issue of Resonances, a citizens’ information monthly drawn up by young activists. The fight against poverty in Ivory Coast through the consolidation of the informal sector remains the main ambition of the Fedesi . This year, the Fedesi and Frères des Hommes joined together to set up the Project for the Support and Reinforcement of Initiatives in the Informal Sector. It aims at improving the socio-economic conditions of the population, which (...) Next ...