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Haití/República Dominicana: Un camino más allá de la frontera
Vita Randazzo escribe sobre un día de Mercado en la ciudad fronteriza de Jimaní
La reciente solidaridad del pueblo dominicano con Haití – evidente en su espontánea e inmediata respuesta al terremoto del 2010 – ha sido puesta a prueba cotidianamente debido a la presencia de personas haitianas en la República Dominicana, espacialmente en la franja fronteriza.
5 things I know
Here are five things I know about Progressio in Ecuador, writes Luis Camacho
My Ecuador experience
Ecuador changed my life, writes former development worker Brenda Lipson
DR-Haiti gallery
Watch an audio slideshow which shows how people were coping in the months after the 2010 earthquake. Many of the problems they faced are still being experienced by the people of Haiti today.
Our work in Timor-Leste
Kids sharing a joke at a street-side repair workshop in Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste (photo © Marcus Perkins/Progressio)
Our achievements
Progressio has a long history of supporting the people of Timor-Leste, beginning in the 1980s with lobbying and advocacy work calling for the independence of Timor-Leste and speaking out against atrocities committed by the occupying Indonesian forces.
Floriana’s story
Photo of Floriana Nunes Saldanha © Marcus Perkins/Progressio
Floriana Nunes Saldanha lives in Timor-Leste’s capital, Dili. Her husband Luciano Sequeira was murdered in the violence that broke out after the vote for independence in 1999.
“Since Luciano was killed I have had to work very hard to support my children, to send them to school,” she says.
Our work in Malawi
Small-scale farmers talking to Stanley Chidaya (right), Executive Secretary of Progressio partner organisation the Malawi Organic Growers' Association (Photo © Marcus Perkins/Progressio)
The challenge
We need to increase the support we give to people with HIV and people at risk of infection.
We need to help Malawi’s people tackle environmental damage and help small-scale farmers build sustainable livelihoods.
Our work
Fabiola’s story
“People in the cities – they make the decisions, but they don’t know what it is like here.
“They are in their offices, they cannot imagine this life – maybe if they visited, but they do not.
“Rural people eat, breathe and sleep agriculture. For this we need water. We have to protect mother earth, and care for her.”