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 About Tolerance International UK Tolerance International was set up to pioneer an all-inclusive approach to two pressing global issues facing our world today: global warming and extreme poverty. It is the first international NGO to have developed a strategy that combines efforts to combat climate change and to eradicate extreme poverty simultaneously. This is our Human & Habitat (H&H) Campaign. Since 2001, Tolerance International-UK has provided assistance to the needy and vulnerable communities. Realising that aid and relief are inseparable from prevention and education, we developed a series of vocational education and lifeskill development workshops which could be adapted to different circumstances in different countries. We now work in partnership with secondary schools in the UK, with local communities, civil society organisations, and governments in Africa, Asia, and South America to bring environmental and social justice around the world. Read more about our programmes below.
 Education Programme ‘Embracing Tolerance’: a vocational, life skills education programme imed at 11-18 year olds and young adults. It is perfectly adapted to Key Stage 4 of the UK PSHE/Citizenship programme within the National Curriculum. It provides a context within which schools can offer planned and coordinated opportunities for pupils to explore attitudes and values and to develop knowledge, skills and understanding that support inclusion, challenge racism and extremism and value diversity. Particularly relevant at this time are the workshops where children engage with each other around the theme of Tolerance and how this is related to current moral issues like peer-group bullying, gang warfare and street violence. More about the programme... 'Embracing Tolerance' in Morocco. A programme is in the pipeline to set up a programme similar to our UK schools programme working directly with Muslim youth, to examine issues of Tolerance vs radical, political and religious teachings.
International Aid and Relief Programme: an emergency appeal for the provision of basic supplies and water for ' Camp Ashraf’ an Iranian refugee camp situated approximately 80 km from Baghdad and 70 km to the east of the Iran-Iraq border. More about the programme..
Social Cultural Engagement Programme : West PoKot, North West Kenya - working in partnership with Global Missions Services, we visit semi-nomadic communities to deliver 2-day workshops with the aim of establishing an alternative rite of passage instead of female genital mutilation (FGC) and making the case for girls to receive a basic education as opposed to being forced into early marriage. The programme includes AIDS awareness as well as introducing conflict resolution techniques with regard to land disputes and cattle rustling. More about the programme... Bochoroke Village Self-Help Group: based in Kisii, Kenya; a village of about 4,500 residents, which has been affected by epidemics of highland Malaria and HIV/AIDS. The Group aim to build a rural dispensary and also a multipurpose centre that will serve as a kindergarten, a multi-skill technical vocational centre for youth/adults as well as a library. The Group also aim to build a deep well to provide clean, accessible water, and they want to provide electricity from the main power line 3 miles away from the village as a power source for computers at the centre and to preserve medicines at the new dispensary. There will be workshops to establish an alternative right of passage as opposed to female genital mutilation for girls passing from childhood to womanhood. More about the programme...
Environmental Justice Programme: Tolerance International is developing a programme in partnership with the government of the Loreto Region in Peru for the reforestation of 1 million hectares of the upper Amazon basin. This first phase of this programme has been submitted to CONAM [the Peruvian National Designated Authority (NDA)under the Kyoto accord] for approval as a CDM project. This is in Association with, Fondebosque, the national environmental agency of Peru and PROCREL, a consortium which includes the National Institute of Natural Resources (INRENA), The Institute for Investigation of the Peruvian Amazon (IIAP), Nature and Culture International (NCI) and The University for the Investigation of the Peruvian Amazon (UIAP). Currently 250,000 hectares of rainforest is slashed and burned each year in Peru. Whilst one aim of the programme is reforestation, there is an urgent need to educate an impoverished indigenous population to protect their environment and to also provide them with alternative, sustainable low-impact employment so that they no longer need to cut down valuable trees for a living. More about the programme... 
Tolerance International CO2 Free Forum (TICOFF): TI-UK provides companies with a FREE AUDIT of their carbon footprint and work with them to provide an energy management strategy tailored to each company’s needs. We advise on how to make up to 20% reductions in energy costs. For carbon emissions that cannot be reduced we advise a carbon offsetting programme. Any company supporting one of our offsetting programmes is given automatic membership of our Carbon Neutral Community. Members benefit from discounted prices and offers from other members as well as being able to promote their own products directly to the community. As a not for profit organization our offsetting costs are 30% below that of any commercial company. According to a recent survey one in three UK consumers are keen to go green and actively seek out companies that are 'green' and environmentally friendly. More about the programme...
CURRENT CAMPAIGNS - Petition to make 7th July the UK National Day of Tolerance – see website
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