Increasing Public Awareness

Frères des Hommes conducts regular campaigns to inform the public and heighten its awareness of the importance of solidarity development.
Throughout the year, our members organise events to fulfill and publicize our commitments.
Update: Tuesday 5 January 2010

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France/Brazil - Celebrating 25 years of Brazilian struggle in the heart of Paris

On the occasion of the 25 years of struggle for access to land and the worldwide promotion of smallholder agriculture, the Brazilian Movement for the landless (MST) put up two tents for landless persons in the heart of Paris at the Place des Innocents near the busy district of Les Halles. Frères des Hommes, joined hands with the French Research and Information Centre for Development (Crid->http://www.crid.asso.fr/spip.php?ar...]) and the peasant union Confederation paysanne along with 16 (...)
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The « Comprendre pour agir 2010 » catalogue is now available

The latest issue of the "Comprendre pour agir" catalogue has just come out! It’s a catalogue of teaching tools on development and international solidarity, with a wide choice of books, greeting cards, DVDs, board games and reports. It was produced by Orcades and 13 French organizations, including Frères des Hommes. This is a chance for us to distribute a new innovative teaching tool, the interactive CD-Rom « Moi, l’Europe et le monde ». The CD-Rom contains quizzes, interviews, an Internet (...)
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France/India - A sporting and ecological undertaking to show solidarity!

10 000 km on bicycle from France to India: a new way of extending support to the Freres des Hommes. Four young residents from Orleans, Loïc Debray, Thomas Heinry, Tanguy de Belmont and Sylvain Koch-Mathian, show their support for our Indian partner, Ekta Parishad by ‘selling’ kilometres cycled to finance the creation of a training centre for traditional and organic agricultural techniques founded by the Ekta Parishad in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. They will be sending back a series of (...)
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DynamoS’olidaire ride for Frères des Hommes

Saturday April 4th, the starting signal was given to Loïc Debray, Tanguy de Belmont and Sylvain Koch-Mathian for their bicycle ride to Tamil Nadu, a state in Southern India, where they are due to arrive after ten months and… 8,000 miles. Some fifty people attended their departure at the town hall in Olivet (Loiret), the three boys’ birthplace, to support the Dynamos team: relatives, friends, sponsors and Frères des Hommes, of course. After a speech in their support given by the mayor, they (...)
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"Being a woman is..."

March 7th. It’s 8:30 at the market of Palente in Besançon. Bystanders and Saturday morning shoppers are talking in front of giant-size pannels, which encourage them to reflect on the questions : « Being a man is… » « Being a woman is… ». On the Eve of Women’s Day, a dozen people gathered around Frères des Hommes in order to take part in a « Speak out » workshop. Passers-by are bewildered at first, but then get closer and play the game : they share their viewpoints and their thoughts, acquaint (...)
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France - Youth, Europe and the World

If you were in charge of eradicating global poverty, where would you start? "I would start by cutting military budgets in order to help starving populations." (Catherine) "I would tax every purchase and give that sum to the poorest countries." (Maxime) "I would start by better distributing developed countries’ money, to give more to the countries that need it most." (Marie) Here are some of the answers given by young Europeans who, between November and June, commented on the role and (...)
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The Frères des Hommes’ summer trip to Brittany

Three Freres des Hommes activists, Manu Louail, Brenda Mager and Baptiste Simon, left on a trip to Brittany in July and August of 2008 to meet Britons and holidayers in Brittany to share their experiences from Janadesh and to forge an alliance between local and international solidarity organisations. Manu and Brenda had participated in the movement of landless peasants in India in the autumn of 2007. During their return trip, they met agricultural organisations from Asia and Europe. This (...)
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France - Spring is fair!

From March 21s to June 21st, 2009, public events to showcase economic initiatives in solidarity. "Out of Crisis: let’s build an economy that brings us together!" Eleven organizations concerned with justice in the economy will rally around this slogan in the second "Spring for a fair economy". Frères des Hommes has decided to integrate the dynamics of this event because we have at heart in all the activities we support to put the economy back into the service of man, and not man in the (...)
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