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France 20 April Apr 2017 1609 20 April 2017 Paris, record of tourists
Following a promotion plan launched by the City of Paris and the State there has been an important increase in tourists in Paris. Today the record level can be compared to that of 2014, before the 2015 terrorist attacks.
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Culture 18 April Apr 2017 1208 18 April 2017 Conakry, World Book Capital City 2017
For 17 years, in turn, different cities in the world have hosted this initiative by UNESCO: starting from the 23rd of April and for a year Conakry will be committed to book and reading culture.
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Welfare 6 April Apr 2017 1554 06 April 2017 Welcoming from 1-year-old to 100-year-olds in a house in Seattle
The Mount St Vincent of Seattle welcomes under the same roof a nursing home for elderly people with 400 guests and a kindergarten with 125 children under the age of 5. The building hosts a centre for intergenerational learning that has won numerous awards.
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Sustainability 29 March Mar 2017 1222 29 March 2017 Changing the world with a click
As part of the “Change for the planet- Care for the people” campaign, CIDSE, the European platform of Catholic NGOs, of which Focsiv is also part, has launched an international photo competition targeted both at professional photographers and amateurs who particularly care for social and environmental change. Deadline to submit photos: April 23rd 2017.
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Civil Society 22 March Mar 2017 1619 22 March 2017 The association training youth from the outskirts to the world of work
It’s called Nos Quartiers ont du Talent (Our neighbourhoods have got talent), it was born 11 years ago and since then it has thrived a lot all over France. Many companies and organisations recruit employees through the association.
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Initiatives 9 March Mar 2017 1623 09 March 2017 This is how Molenbeeck youth learn IT skills
Capital Digital is a project that trains young migrants (15-20 years old) from Brussels’ outskirts in the basics of coding and also gives them pedagogical abilities to transfer these knowledges to children migrants who live in the poorest areas of Bruxelles.
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Initiatives 7 March Mar 2017 1207 07 March 2017 Paris, the food and solidarity Give Box is born
A project of the association Cap ou pas cap and of the collective of architects “On a pensé un truc”, the Garde-Manger (Food and Solidarity Give Box) in Paris is having a great success
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Migrants 1 March Mar 2017 1610 01 March 2017 Virtuous Triangle, a model of integration of refugees in Turkey
Virtuous Triangle is a model of integration that creates a triangular ecosystem formed by a Turkish primary school child, a refugee pupil and a university student. The model is based on principles of reciprocity, profitability and mutual understanding.
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Greece 24 February Feb 2017 1115 24 February 2017 Solidarity Salt, integrating migrants thanks to salt
Solidarity salt is a new social enterprise empowering women refugees in Greece through selling sea salt, developing at the same time the local economy.
