"There will be a time without time. A way without a way." This statement about the changes that occur over the years came from Joana Benedito, the matriarch of the Mesquita Quilombo, who, at 98 years old, clearly and wisely expresses the words she heard as a...
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Launch of the Dabucury Project: Territorial and Environmental Management in the Indigenous Amazon at the ATL 2024
Applications close on 30 June and are open to indigenous organizations in the Amazon. On 24 April, in the COIAB tent at the 20th Free Land Camp (Acampamento Terra Livre: ATL), the Ecumenical Coordination of Service (Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço: CESE) and the...
Connecting knowledge and networks: young indigenous adults participate in communications workshops in Brasilia
On 20 and 21 April, a training meeting brought together 25 young people from the Young Indigenous Communicators Network of the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira: COIAB) to...
Domestic Workers in Paraíba reassert their fight for public policies and equal rights
In Brazil, 27 April is National Domestic Workers Day, in honour of Saint Zita, an Italian woman who is the profession’s patron saint. Beyond this religious reference, 27 April is a date for the struggles and demands of a labour category whose profile represents a...
Young people’s mental health in the third most indigenous municipality in Brazil
São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Amazonas), where indigenous people represent 93.2% of the population, is one of the most indigenous municipalities in Brazil. Despite these numbers, education remains a worrying challenge for the young people in the city, which has had dire...
Training at CESE connects and empowers IEAB leaders
Between 18 and 21 April, leaders of the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil: IEAB) visited the offices of the Ecumenical Coordination of Service (Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço: CESE), in Salvador (Bahia), to participate in...
Online workshops strengthen indigenous communicators from the Legal Amazon
Fostering communication networks and sharing knowledge were the main points in a cycle of online workshops involving approximately 35 indigenous people, from different peoples in the Legal Amazon, over three online meetings that took place between 27 March and 4...
Echoes from the Pedagogy of Steel: other contours in the struggle for land in Brazil
“Candelária,Carandiru,Corumbiara,Eldorado dos Carajás…[...] The pedagogy of steel strikes the body, this atrocious geography” * Twenty-eight years ago, newspapers and newscasts around the world carried headlines depicting brutality against rural workers. Images...
Movement of Women from the Northeast stitch together reflections and weave resistance in first 2024 meeting
Women’s movements and organizations are like different pieces of fabric! A patchwork quilt of threads that criss-cross stories, tracing pathways and constructing plurality. Through the metaphor of the art of sewing, women’s organizations from the Northeast...
Grassroots organizations in Pará discuss fundraising strategies as part of CESE training course
To raise awareness and mobilize religious communities to coordinate their local fundraising work, as a strategy for institutional sustainability. This was the aim of the Local Fundraising Course held between 19 and 22 March in the city of Belém (Pará). The training is...