03.01.2012
Olive tree planting in Palestine
The Joint Advocacy Initiative (JAI) from YMCA and YWCA Palestine and the Alternative Tourism Group (ATG) invite you once again to take part in this aid project by planting olive trees in Palestine from
4 - 13 February 2012.
An interesting program with the possibility to meet locals and visit informative events enables you to get a deeper look at the situation in Palestine.
For a detailed program and registration, please visit the JAI website:
Information in Switzerland: Bruno Essig (bruno.essig@horyzon.ch, 062 296 62 68).
25.11.2011
YMCA Medellín representatives visit Switzerland
Alexandra Castillón and Jeison Castaño, representatives from YMCA Medellín, visited Switzerland to give presentations in order to draw attention to their work in Colombia. To visit Horyzon their journey led them to our office in Olten, where a spry and valuable knowledge exchange about their specific experience with development cooperation took place between the two parties. We’d like to present you a video clip showing the hip hop festival “Revolution without dead people” which was prepared by Jeison Castaño. More than 32’000 spectators celebrated peacefully. There was none violent confrontation during the whole event.
25.11.2011
Sabine Beer arrived in China
Nothing less than 10’131 km Sabine Beer put aside by bike. The “Cevianerin” finally arrived at her destination in Shanghai. It was the 13th of March when she started her trip in Herzogenbuchsee in direction China. It was also her motivation to support Horyzon while cycling. In fact, Sabine collected 5’140 francs with her outstanding performance. Thank you so much! Her travelling route led her trough Macedonia and Bulgaria, where she visited the local YMCA’s to hear about the projects supported by Horyzon. Find more information about Sabine’s fascinating trip visit www.il-ciclone.ch.
25.11.2011
16 days of activism against gender violence
This week the United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon declared in an interview, that violence against women is a violation of basic human rights and thus must be eliminated. Therefore, the UN support the international campaign “16 days of activism against gender violence”, which was initiated in 1991 and takes place annually between November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and December 10, the Human Rights Day. As in previous years, numerous activities and events will take place in Switzerland.
Horyzon also support the prevention of violence against women in its projects. Thanks to socio-political education women and youths learn about their rights and possible courses of actions to stand up for their rights. Education and activities in the areas of human and civil rights, women’s and children’s rights are an important component of Horyzon’s projects in Bangladesh, Ecuador, Colombia, Palestine as well as the in the Power to Change Fund.
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