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Ecumenical Water Network launched in brazil

News - 24.08.21

The Ecumenical Water Network (Rede Ecumênica da Água: REDA-Brasil) was launched through an online event in Brazil on 22 July 2021.  The initiative aims to promote reflection and action for the waters of Brazil, raising awareness about the various issues involved, whether environmental or social. CONTEXT Although Brazil has the greatest volume of freshwater on […]

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Cese supports initiatives that strengthen the productivity of quilombola women in Maranhão

News - 21.08.21

The Women Guardians of the Seeds Collective strengthens its support network and develops the commercialization of quilombola women’s products Black and quilombola women rely on support to commercialize babassu coconut oil and its derivatives, overcoming the socio-economic challenges caused by the pandemic. This is the assertion of the Women Guardians of the Seeds Collective, which […]

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Gender and race inequalities, political participation and self-organization – the themes discussed by women from the Cerrado

News - 15.08.21

“Women are like water and roots: when they come together, they are stronger”.  With this inspiring phrase Sônia Mota, Executive Director of the Ecumenical Coordination of Service (Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço: CESE), opened the Workshop on Gender and Race in the Cerrado, run via online platform on 03, 04 and 05 August 2021, in partnership […]

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Mobilising Support Course: the Linha Community and its fight against the eviction of more than 700 people in Recife

News - 12.08.21

Throughout the 30 years in which she’s lived in the Linha Community, in the Ibura neighbourhood of Recife, Terezinha Francisca de Jesus has been one of the area’s great pillars of strength and resistance.  In the absence of the public authorities, she describes how she has opened up her home for meetings, to receive orders […]

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Helivete Bezerra: “the evangelical church will advance in the anti-racist struggle when it includes black women in the ministry”

News - 07.08.21

  As part of Black Women’s July – and for 25 July: International Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Day (in Portuguese) – ALC News interviewed CESE’s new President, Pastor Helivete Bezerra. Helivete Bezerra is a graduate in Psychology from the University of Pernambuco (Universidade de Pernambuco, 2014) and in Theology from the Methodist University of […]

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Migrant women participate in entrepreneurship training cycle

News - 05.08.21

The Casa na Luz project, made possible through CESE’s small projects programme, provides activities for refugees in São Paulo Venezuelans, Haitians, Angolans and Bolivians.  These women came to Brazil from different parts of the Americas and Africa, hopeful of better days and have encountered numerous challenges, but also welcome and hope.  Supported by the Small […]

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