Intervida

2008 (62)

• November (3)
  • Intervida projects the documentary on child labor ‘Before growing up’ in cines Verdi of Madrid
  • Intervida renews the ‘Give them a voice’ website making it a platform for information, awareness and networked efforts on CSEC
  • Intervida participates in ‘Wake up’, the event organized by Fundación Iuve to build solidarity among young people
• October (9)
  • Intervida will show the documentary 'Before growing up' at the 2nd NGO meeting in Puebla de Cazalla
  • Intervida promotes environmental sustainability through projects in the drainage basins of El Salvador, where 75% of the soil is eroded
  • Intervida invites children to play at their solidary ‘gymkhana’ in the ‘Festa dels Supers’
  • Intervida hosts, in Barcelona, a photography exhibition on child labor in Bangladesh
  • Intervida releases the ‘Intervida Visa’ credit card which, without any annual fee, allows users to collaborate with the most disadvantaged
  • Intervida presents in Saragossa the documentary ‘Before growing up’, which denounces child labor explotation
  • Intervida participates in the second edition of the solidarity fair AYUDAR in Saragossa
  • Intervida intensifies actions to prepare for meteorological phenomena in 2008, a year prone to natural disasters
  • Intervida projects the documentary on child labor ‘Before growing up’ in cines verdi of Barcelona
• September (9)
  • Intervida detects ophthalmological problems in 25% of school children attended in Segou and Pelengana
  • Intervida presents the documentary Before growing up, which denounces child labor explotation, in Madrid
  • Intervida presents the documentary Before growing up, which denounces child labor explotation, in Bilbao
  • Intervida presents the documentary Before growing up, which denounces child labor explotation, in Málaga
  • Intervida presents the documentary Before growing up, which denounces child labor explotation, in Sevilla
  • Intervida celebrates the Mercè Festival in the streets of Barcelona
  • Intervida presents the documentary Before growing up, which denounces child labor explotation, in Barcelona
  • The Do it Yourself website ends its campaign with over 1,000 T-shirt design proposals
  • 133 million young people between 15 and 24 years old do not know how to read or write
• August (7)
  • Intervida collaborates in Nicaragua to increase vaccinations, especially among women and children
  • Intervida works with communities on environmental management which will enable them to use resources in a sustainable way and minimize disaster risks
  • Intervida warns that there are over 115 million schoolage children who do not attend primary school
  • Intervida provides Facebook users with the opportunity to join ‘Do it Yourself’, its campaign against child labor
  • Over 16,000 youths in El Salvador and Nicaragua participate in Intervida’s sociocultural projects
  • Intervida reminds us that 90% of indigenous panamanians live in poverty
  • Jorge ‘Mágico’ González presents 6,000 books collected by Fundación Cádiz C.F. for Intervida’s cultural centers in El Salvador
• July (7)
  • Intervida renews its ISO 9001:2000 certificate, which guarantees quality management of the organization
  • The ‘Do It Yourself’ web has already received 500 t-shirt proposals
  • Intervida Philippines sets up family gardens to combat the nutrition which affects one in three students
  • Intervida alerts us to the unhealthy living conditions of more than 1 billion people around the world
  • Over 80 Intervida collaborators visited the organization’s projects in 2007
  • Intervida promotes use of the SALT system in the Philippines to reduce the risk of landslides and improve land fertility
  • Intervida collaborates in Kenya’s social recovery, offering support to some one thousand displaced people and returnees
• June (7)
  • Intervida El Salvador is recognized for its sustainable environmental management projects
  • Intervida collaborates to reduce maternal mortality in Nicaragua, a country where one death occurs every two days
  • Intervida reminds us that desertification claims 120,000 square kilometers of trees a year, affecting more than 250 million people
  • Intervida presents ‘Do It Yourself’, its campaign to fight against Child Labor Exploitation
  • Intervida celebrates World Day Against Child Labor, which affects 218 million children, with events in Spain and El Salvador
  • Intervida will participate in the 1st hindu Festival of Madrid’s Lavapiés neighborhood
  • Intervida reminds us that 1.6 billion people are still without electricity, especially in the rural areas of the world
• May (8)
  • Intervida promotes indonesian traditions among poor children through new cultural centers
  • Intervida conducts ophthalmological campaigns for school children in Ecuador, a country in which there are 26 ophthamologists per million inhabitants
  • Intervida helps a group of bee honey-producers in El Salvador improve their skills and income
  • Intervida promotes sports practice to counteract the culture of violence in the southern Sudan
  • Intervida supports sociocultural projects which help children and youths integrate and socialize in Colombia
  • Intervida denounces the fact that 30% of rural homes in Mali lack basic sanitation
  • More than 8,000 people benefit from Intervida’s Health and Education projects in Cambodia
  • Intervida makes the e-book ‘1st International Conference: Tourism and the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children’ available to web users
• April (10)
  • Intervida participates in the first edition of the Forum Alternative Channel
  • Intervida sells t-shirts on the webpage www.camisetasolidaria.com
  • Intervida depends on environmental education to ensure that thousands of nicaraguan children are not affected by their surroundings
  • Intervida celebrates Saint George’s Day in the streets of Barcelona raising awareness on the consequences of the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
  • More than 6,000 books will travel to Intervida’s cultural centers in El Salvador thanks to the solidarity of fans of F.C. Cadiz
  • Intervida works to create small businesses to achieve self-sufficiency among of the most impoverished indian communities
  • F.C. Cadiz collaborates with Intervida In the third edition of its school meet with schools in Cadiz
  • Intervida opens a new channel for communicating with web users through a private chat
  • Intervida uses solar energy to bring electricity to a community of over 300 in El Salvador
  • Intervida reminds us that more than 500 children under 5 years old die every hour due to causes associated with malnutrition
• March (2)
  • Intervida promotes Education for Development as one of the strategic guidelines of its work
  • Intervida reminds us that one of every four people facing hunger in the developing world live in sub-Saharan Africa