The Foundation participated in a Training course in Manchester (UK), promoted by WONDER4WOMEN and financed by the European Union program Youth In Action.
More than one hundred people attended yesterday the solidarity meal organised by FERT Batxillerat in favour of a construction project of new installations to a new secondary teaching college in the D.R. of Congo.
The Congo is a huge country and the capital, Kinshasa, has a population of between six and eight million inhabitants, many displaced from the Kivus, an area devastated by war. I have not been able to access any official document in which the exact population can be stated.
International Human Solidarity Day was proclaimed as such by the General Assembly of the United Nations to involve all countries in uniting in the task of creating together a more prosperous and secure future for all.
A commitment was made by 191 heads of state and of governments to meet the said "Development Goals for the Millennium" within 15 years. Only three years remain to reach the final objective.
The Ivory Coast, traditionally a prosperous and stable country, is going through some turbulent times. Difficulties began in 1993 with the death of the architect of their independence and their subsequent president, Houphoët Boigny.
The global aim of the project is to improve adult education services which the institutions voluntarily carry out, to help alleviate the difficult consequences of the present financial recession.