Here are the real life, 'learning by doing' Inspire stories relating to projects engaged in encouraging good Citizenship around the world. Click on the links on the left of the page for more stories.
Do you have a story about how encouraging good Citizenship is helping to make people's lives better or do you know of a project working in this area of expertise? Then why not help to inspire and encourage others by sending the story by email to Libby Brayshaw. |
The Practical Skills Training Center for Rural Women (Changping, Beijing) is training center that has helped thousands of rural women from 26 provinces (including 17 ethnic groups) to start a new, self-reliant life in big cities.
Part of the extensive programme of events, seminars and workshops available for delegates to the CIVICUS World Assembly in Glasgow in June 2006 included a study visit to the New Lanark Conservation Trust where we met Tami from The Guid Life - www.theguidlife.net (meaning, of course, the Good Life) - an online community combatting rural exclusion and deprivation in Lanarkshire.
Sizani Ngubane (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) is recognized by her peers as a great leader because she is the founder and director of the Rural Women's Movement. She worked for ten years as a gender specialist for the Association for Rural Advancement in KwaZulu Natal. Prior to that she worked for the South African Women's National Coalition as a provincial coordinator.