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Oyo Projects is an association of artists, activists and other committed people. They share the wish to support street kids and young adults by engaging them in artistic and creative activities. Since 2012 the Oyo.Project team is working with street children in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In total, the projects provides food, medical support and clothes to 15 – 20 children and youths and offers regular art classes in drawing, painting, theater, music and modern artforms.
The Oyo.Project team aims at transferring the participating children to school classes, professional art classes and different formations to ensure a long-term amelioration of their situation. This will enable the children to live a self-determined life. Therefore Oyo.Project is partnering with local NGOs, schools, art teachers and hospitals.
Oyo Projects is rising awareness and encouraging discussion about the street kids’ precarious situation through public exhibitions, street art and interventions. For all participating kids, Oyo provides meals, medicine and primary health care, and most of all offers a reliable contact person who takes their problems seriously. Oyo.Projects promotes gender equality using mural art as a tool to include all genders. Girls and Boys have the same power and voice while they participate in our collaborative cultural activities.
Since 2019 Oyo Projects collaborates with Option ONG toengage youths in recycling, upcycling and the cleaning of polluted rivers in Kinshasa.The project combines the opportunity to make the city healthier and cleaner while creating useful
jobs for young adults from difficult backgrounds.
The goal of our program is to educate young adults to feel useful in society, to have self-confidence,
and to create awareness for their situation. Our goal in this program is to allow the youth to have
useful knowledge that creates income and to enable them to live a self-determined life.

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2016
  • Started living together
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
  • Open to volunteers
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  • Congo (Kinshasa)

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8 years ago

Global eco-village Network Summit Totnes

Bowden House Community will be hosting 6 talks over the 2 weekends: POWER OF COMMUNITY SUMMIT Bowden House Community will be hosting some video talks from the Global Eco-village network community summit on “The Power Of Community: Climate Change and Consciousness.”The summit offers 30 talks from international experts, philosophers and thinkers on these subjects and promises to be an inspiring and motivating experience. We will be showing a selection of the one hour long talks with some space afterwards to share our reactions and thoughts.More info on the summit here:https://summit.ecovillage.org/ COST:This event is free but if you would like to offer a donation for the space costs then that is very welcome – however you are welcome whether or not you can donate. WHEN:1st, 2nd, 3rd and 8th, 9th, 10th of February at 7pm (arrive 6:45 for a prompt start)You are welcome to any or all of the showings on any of the above dates. WHERE:Bowden Comminty Centre. Bowden House Community on the Ashprington road, TQ9 7PW DIRECTIONS ONCE ON SITE: Enter through second entrance after Bowden House sign on road . Park in carpark. Walk to top of carpark, take lane to the right for about 100 metres until you arrive in the garden. Community Centre building is up through garden on left – will be a light outside to make obvious. BRING:A torch (very important as is unlit from carpark to community centre), sturdy shoes (is muddy untarmacced path), indoor slippers, yourself.An awareness that this is our home and hence quiet when arriving a
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14 years ago

otros mundos son posibles

los liderazgos y los procesos colectivos “creatividad social para la transicion” Es el cuarto año que nos convocamos. Esta vez a la entrada del invierno, reunirnos en torno al fuego. En el primer año, nos descubrimos las claves de los procesos colectivos ( atender a la persona, al objetivo/visiĂłn del colectivo, al proceso y siempre en conexiĂłn con los principios y o valores que nos unen y el planeta), en el segundo nos enfocamos en descubrir rutas para facilitarnos a las personas la participaciĂłn e implicaciĂłn ( La tensiĂłn persona-colectivo, como activadora de procesos, aprender a ser creativ@s culturales), en el tercero nos confrontamos a la materializaciĂłn, investigando nuestros caminos interiores para ser capaces de llevar a lo concreto nuestras aspiraciones ( El colectivo como espacio de confianza para romper limites que solas seria muy costoso, materializar lo que soñamos, juntas) Este cuarto año nuestra invitaciĂłn es una propuesta de investigaciĂłn, cuestionamiento y focalizaciĂłn en lo que ocurre en los proyectos colectivos y organizaciones sociales en torno a su propia estructura, la gobernanza y los liderazgos. Pensamos que hay una gran necesidad de afinar en la Cultura de lo grupal, de lo comunitario, de lo colectivo en torno a estos temas. Creemos mas urgente cada dĂ­a que pasa, involucrarnos totalmente en una TransiciĂłn; de este mundo ya conocido y en plena decadencia, a una forma de organizar nuestras vidas anclada en valores capaces de construir y sostener ese mundo soñado, intuido, anhelado por tantas personas a lo largo de nuestro humano caminar… Esa transiciĂłn no la van a liderar quienes lideran el hoy, somos las soñadoras, los perroflautas, las creativas culturales… quienes si o si, estamos invitadas a liderar esta TransiciĂłn, en equipos, ecoaldeas, comunidades, grupos, redes, colectivos, cooperativas, empresas sociales etc… por esto resulta tambiĂ©n urgente darnos herramientas para que los procesos colectivos sean capaces de sostener la necesid
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12 years ago

INtercambio para el Cambio

Estamos invitando a diversos agentes de cambio con inicitivas en Europa a una inmersión de dos días que tendrá lugar el 18 y 19 de Octubre. El encuentro tiene un coste total de 75 euros, incluyendo la comida de los dos días y los materiales. Es un coste pequeño para cubrir los gastos de sala, materiales y los desplazamientos de las personas que son invitadas para abrir el encuentro con experiencias inspiradoras (Jason Nardi de RIPESS, Joana Crowson del Trabajo que reconecta, Andy Smith de Process work y Diversity matters, Robert Hall de la Red Global de Ecoaldeas-GEN). Usaremos la filosofía Elos como hilo conductor del encuentro, para dar continuidad en el programa. Con este encuentro generaremos un espacio de intercambio entre diversos agentes de cambio; personas, iniciativas, movimientos sociales, y organizaciones de distintas partes del continente. Juntos y juntas intercambiaremos experiencias y visiones sobre el crecimiento de movimientos en todas las áreas de la Sostenibilidad y crearemos un espacio para intercambiar aprendizajes, fortalecer alianzas y profundizar en el impacto de nuestras acciones a nivel individual y colectivo. Queremos que estéis en el encuentro, porque nos parece muy importante vuestra forma de impulsar el cambio. Durante el encuentro habrá una feria de intercambio de experiencias, por lo que cada iniciativa puede poner un pequeño stand o un sencillo punto de información. Además, si venís de fuera de Madrid, hay posibilidades de alojamiento para todo el grupo en conjunto para fortalecer el intercambio con la convivencia.

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