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Aljazeera features Peruvian Women's Action Groups and Soccer Leagues

Posted on Thu, 2011 – 08 – 25 17:17

A Woman Leader, Juana Estrada, trained by Future Generations Peru in maternal and child health, created a women's soccer league in rural Cusco that has the added benefit of bringing together older and younger women from remote villages to gain health knowledge and discuss shared challenges.

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Empowering Women Leaders Worldwide for Community Change

Authors: 
Future Generations Graduate School
Date: 
June, 2011
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Learn about alumnae of the Future Generations Graduate School and enjoy select profiles of exemplary women leaders featured in this booklet. These women are leaders paving the way for community change in their home countries. Since 2003, the Master's Degree program in Applied Community Change and Conservation has equipped these women with skills in such areas as conservation, empowerment, health, and peacebuilding. These women learn these skills while living in their communities interacting with faculty and sharing lessons with each other during four one-month residentials.

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Arunachal Fact Sheet

Authors: 
Future Generations
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Future Generations
Date: 
January, 2012
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This two-page fact sheet introduces the major activities of Future Generations Arunachal.

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Term III Master’s Degree Residential in Peru: Tools for Empowerment

Posted on Tue, 2011 – 04 – 19 11:09

The rural Quechuan community of Pitumarca in Cusco, Peru, has become a model site and regional training center for health and integrated development. In March 2011 students representing seven countries learned from this success and Peru’s community-oriented health system as part of the Term III residential of the Master’s Degree program in Applied Community Change and Conservation. Courses in “Going to Scale,” “Food and Water Security,” and “Empowerment,” wove theory with case studies, field applications, and experiences from each student’s own community.

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Annual Report 2010: Global Lessons Coming Home

Authors: 
Future Generations
Authors: 
Future Generations Graduate School
Date: 
February, 2011
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This 2010 Annual Report features five core lessons that Future Generations and the Future Generations Graduate School advanced during the last year:

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Isobel Coleman’s Book Spotlights Future Generations Afghanistan

Posted on Thu, 2010 – 07 – 22 13:43

In her book, Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East, Isobel Coleman finds herself in a rural part of Afghanistan. Her traveling companion is Dr. Shukria Hassan, the former health director of Future Generations Afghanistan. In the book's introduction, Coleman highlights the work of Future Generations to provide literacy classes for women and girls through the help of local religious leaders.

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Afghanistan: A Community-Supported Literacy and Health Training Program for 1,700 Women Thrives in Qarabagh District of Ghazni Province

Posted on Tue, 2010 – 01 – 05 12:03

Kabul- A Community Action Group in a highly insecure region of Afghanistan supports integrated literacy and health classes that have trained 1,700 women and girls. With training from Future Generations Afghanistan and support from the Canada Fund and Flora Family Foundation, this local action group in Qarabagh District of Ghazni Province acts as an effective interface between the community and the Afghanistan of Ministry of Education.

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Community Capacity Building

Future Generations specializes in community-based approaches to build the capacity of marginalized communities throughout the world. Future Generations raises the capacity of communities to create locally appropriate solutions that last. These solutions build off of community successes and global best practices instead of focusing on past failures.

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Mosque-based Literacy Classes for Women

Women's Literacy Classes in Malistan DistrictWomen's Literacy Classes in Malistan DistrictAn estimated 79% of Afghan women and girls cannot read and write, but for the Hazara ethnic communities in the central highlands, literacy for women and the education of  was common before the Taliban. In early 2002, at a community meeting organized by Future Generations in Jaghori District of Ghazni Province, the local leaders chose literacy for women as one of their initial work plan projects.

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Afghan Women Improving Health

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The Need: Death during childbirth is an every day occurrence in Afghanistan, which has among the highest rates of maternal and child mortality in the world. Many deaths can be prevented by changes in lifestyle and basic health care in the home.

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