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Africa - Sustainable tourism that benefits both locals and tourists.

While governments and institutions look for solutions to Africa’s poverty,one way to help meet this challenge is within my grasp - to bring tourists into African homes and communities. By staying in these communities, tourists provide income that improves the standards of living.
My model offers a sustainable pro-poor tourism alternative to mass packaged holidays with travel ethos that co-operate with the local hosts to improve their economy and protect their local environments. Accommodation is provided by the hosts in their homes or homesteads. In return the visitors are required to respect and absorb their culture as they provide some immediate economic and social benefits to these communities. Guests help their host families with their daily chores and tasks such…

by Peter Ongera on 28/10/08 | Read More

Brazil - 3 Blood Brothers

This is a history about my family!!  I produced the documentary about them and I think that this is very interesting to your project.  3 brothers, 3 resisting human being!!

The “3 Blood Brothers” is about three brothers who performed a very important role in the social, politic and artistic history of Brazil. They were: Betinho, a social scientist who founded the “Campaign Against the Hunger and Poverty”; Henfil, a cartoonist who fought hard to bring back the people who were exiled during the dictatorship and to establish the direct elections here in Brazil; and Chico Mario, a musician and composer who always defended the recognition of Brazilian music’s quality and produced songs against the torture in Brazil during the…

by Marcos Souza on 30/07/08 | Read More