Over 5,000 people participate in 2nd Edition of the International Millennium Film Festival
Brussels , Friday 18 June: On Friday evening hundreds of people gathered in Flagey Theatre for the closing ceremony of the 2010 Millennium Film Festival where the winners of leading documentaries were announced.
Assessing Climate Change Vulnerabilities in Colombia’s Indigenous Communities
Carina Bolaños, a 24 year old girl from Paletará, is spending a lot of time these days learning about the potential impacts of climate change on the livelihoods of her community of 520 families.
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DILG to bring potable water to 36 municipalities
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) hopes to bring potable water to poor communities in 36 municipalities in the country. Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno said that the program, which is under the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Achievement Fund, aims to provide safe and potable drinking water to residents of remote barangays, particularly, the poor communities.
Costa Rican young voices connect communities
Twenty-eight young women and men from all parts of Costa Rica recently learned how to produce their own radio messages on preventing violence, through a training programme organized through the MDG- Fund (MDG-F) programme on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding called “Networks for Coexistence, Communities without Fear”
