Environment and urban agriculture internships

1. Partners:

A. Southern host organisation

Réseau africain pour le développement (RADI)

RADI’s mission is to fight against poverty, injustice and ignorance by promoting the participation of concerned population and by empowering and educating citizens to promote autonomy and self-sustainability. The RADI is involved in various areas: promotion and integration of women, sustainable agriculture and food security, national language literacy and basic education, peasant management, youth development in urban and semi-urban areas (education, training, integration, employment), and environment.

B. Quebec partner organisation

Head & Hands / À deux mains

Head & Hands’ mission is to work with youth to promote their physical and mental well-being. Its approach is preventative, non-judgmental and holistic, with a fundamental commitment to providing an environment that welcomes youth without discrimination. Head & Hands facilitate social change and the empowerment of youth based on their current needs within its community and society at large.

Head & Hands envisions a society where all youth are participants and are inspired by the endless possibilities available to them.

1. Southern host organisation:

Clubs Kayira de l’Association des Radios libres Kayira

Le Réseau des radios libres is an organization regrouping 9 community radio station (1 in Bamako, 8 in rural areas). Around those community radios were created the Clubs Kayira which are constituted of women’s groups, organizations helping people with disabilities o or organizations of villagers.

The ’Réseau des Radios Libres et des Clubs Kayira’ is a democratic watch dog organisation, its mandate is to raise awareness and undertake popular education on:
– local, national and international news, reported impartially and independently
– Helping bring together large numbers of citizens to undertake civic education trainings to found the basis of participatory democracy
– Take an active part in informing the public health, hygiene and environmental issues
– Give a voice to associations and all citizens who otherwise have no forum in which to express themselves
– Combat the dissemination of ideas and principles founded on intolerance, racism, exclusion and xenophobia
– Opening the radio station to a diversity of cultural expression (artist presentations and musical presentations, theater and cinema) from Mali and elsewhere.