£8m boost for local projects fighting global poverty

Written on July 10th, 2009 in Humanitarian and Life Concerns Comments Off

Linked with Department for International Development DFID annual reports.

Published on DFID, July 8, 2009.

A campaign against ‘fast fashion’, a project teaching UK schoolchildren the true cost of blood diamonds and a group using Brazilian martial arts to educate inner-city kids about global poverty are among the new projects sharing a £8.2m Government funding boost announced by Douglas Alexander today.

This year’s Development Awareness Fund (DAF) will back at least 30 new projects across the UK designed to help more people – from schoolchildren to community and faith groups – to understand poverty in the developing world and how they can join the fight against it.

The successful projects include:  

  • A project informing Asian youths in London and East Midlands about the effect cheap, disposable clothing – ‘fast fashion’ – has on the environment and workers in the developing world;
  • A website and programme of classes and workshops for schoolchildren to raise awareness of the damage done by the global trade in diamonds, gold and other valuable commodities;
  • Using capoeira, a Brazilian art-form mixing dance and martial arts, to teach schoolchildren in Hackney and other UK cities about global development.

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