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SaferNet is unique. It's the first-ever NGO in Brazil to established a multistakeholder approach to protect Human Rights in the digital environment. We created and coordinate since 2005 The National Cybertipline, the National Helpline and the Brazilian Online Safety Education and Awareness Hub. We have more than 15 years of experience in delivering innovative and award-winning programs with huge social impact, including capacity building projects with educators, policy makers, law enforcement officials, teenagers and young people in Brazil. SaferNet Brazil has no political, religious, union or ideological ties, and has proven experience and a long standing positive engagement with the leading ICT companies with operations in Brazil. At the institutional level SaferNet has formal signed agreements with the Ministry of Human Rights, Ministry of Education, UNICEF Brazil, General Attorney Office, several State Prosecutor's Offices, Universities and with many companies in the private sector. Since 2009 we coordinate the Safer Internet Day in Brazil, and our work has been awarded with the National Human Rights Prize, granted by the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil (2013). Collaboration is the key principle guiding our work. We driven our decisions based on evidence-based research and data science, and share our knowledge and expertise to qualify the public debate and contribute to a better informed policy-making process in Brazil. Our core activities planned for the years ahead are designed to fulfill five pillars: DETECT online risks and trends that could affect users safety and wellbeing and timely respond with the appropriate actions to reduce harm and maximize opportunities, especially for children; RECOVER those affected and provide counselling to maintain resilience, improve self-care and restore victims dignity; EMPOWER youths, educators, social workers and vulnerably communities to understand those issues and training the trainers; PROMOTE diversity and empathy to counter youth radicalization and make the Internet a better place for all. SHARE the knowledge and expertise to qualify the public debate and contribute to a better informed policy-making process in Brazil. Some of our projects and programs running nowadays: 1) Cidadao Digital Phase II: a mixture of capacity building and creative labs that aims to inspire, empower and support the protagonism of young people, by train the trainer model, to foster online safety, well-being and media/digital literacy activities for 50k students (13-17 years old) and 8k educators from public schools during the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil. More info: www.cidadaodigital.org.br 2) National Cyber TipLine: web-based hotline and a platform providing a database and technical infrastructure to support Brazilian authorities to fight online human rights related offenses, such as child sexual abuse material online, hate speech and human trafficking. More info: http://indicadores.safernet.org.br 3) National Helpline: realtime chat-based and email counseling service to advice children, teenagers, young people and their parents and educators on how to stay safe online and deal with issues involving privacy, data protection, cyberbullying, sextorsion, suicide, grooming, harassment and others serious online incidents that could affect the health and well-being. The service is operated in a daily bases by specialized psychologists accredited and officially recognized by the Federal Council of Psychology. More info: http://helpline.org.br/indicadores/ 4) MOOC on Online Safety for Educators: an e-learning platform, developed in partnership with Google and the Education Secretariats, has enrolled more than 70k educators from 14 Brazilian States. More info: http://ead.safernet.org.br 5) National Campaigns develop with industry partners to rising awareness on privacy, security, harmful content and digital skills.

Promover o desenvolvimento economico, social e humano dos cidadaos de Coxilha levando informacao, conhecimento, acesso a alfabetizacao e tecnologias em informatica. Despertando tambem a consciencia para a preservacao do meio ambiente, atraves do cuidado com o lixo domestico.

To be a welcoming space for the LGBTQIAP+ population, always taking into account intersectionalities, such as issues of gender expressions and identity, sexual affective orientation, race and class. To act in the promotion of human dignity and social well-being of all people in a broad and free way, working to guarantee the effective access of this population to social and economic rights, in order to contribute to the structural transformation of society.

Give youth from less developed areas opportunities for a better future through education and employment.

Promote the active, full and dignified participation of children, youth and adults with cerebral palsy or neuromotor disability in all areas of society, through Conductive Education whose objective is the upbringing, training and development of a person with autonomy and self determination

Vision: In America Solidaria, we envision a continent where all children and adolescents have what they need to grow, learn, and fulfill their potential. We see it as our shared responsibility as citizens of this region to make this vision a reality by mobilizing a network of highly skilled fellows. Mission: Mission America Solidaria promotes regional development throughout the Americas, strengthening local initiatives through year-long service projects in nonprofit organizations working to alleviate youth poverty through a focus on education, health, and/or economic empowerment. Our projects create lasting change by influencing public opinion and policy and helping shape future professionals, increasing the standard of living and supporting growth in the region.

Promote the network in citizenship, the generation of employment and income with human development, uniting business, civil society and government

AIPC Pandora is a non-profit organization that works to generate the knowledge and the capacity of action needed at the international level for the construction of a more just and peaceful world. For this, we develop Global Learning Experiences for educational, intercultural, solidarity or professional insertion in one of the 57 countries in which we are present. We work both in Outbound / Outbound and Inbound / Host projects in Spain, offering transformative experiences based on the "Learning-Service" methodology that form global citizens in how to intervene in the great challenges of the world today.

The GFCF is a grassroots grantmaker working to promote and support institutions of community philanthropy around the world

CIFOR advances human well-being, equity and environmental integrity by conducting innovative research, developing partners' capacity and actively engaging in dialogue with all stakeholders to inform policies and practices that affect forests and people.

The Institute has social goals related to the provision of aid, advice, the defense and guarantee of the rights of adolescents, youth and their families, and it also: I Promotes labor market integration, by improving the quality of professional education and training; II Offers social safety actions that enable the promotion of protagonism, citizen participation, the mediation of access to the labor world and social mobilization for building collective strategies; III Provides aid to adolescents and to professional education in carrying out apprenticeship programs; IV Provides methodical technical and professional training for adolescents, compatible with their physical, moral and psychological development; V Promotes work by means of apprenticeship, acting as an integration agent between apprentices and companies, according to applicable legislation; VI Liaison with other public policies related to labor market integration; VII Works together with groups focused on strengthening bonds and developing behavior and skills for entering the labor world; monitoring is carried out throughout the process; VIII Promotes political and citizenship training, developing, rescuing and/or strengthening protagonism by means of permanent critical thinking as a condition of personal growth and construction of autonomy, for social interaction; IX Promotes the required support for youth with disabilities and their families aimed at acknowledging and strengthening their potentials and skills for labor world integration; X Coordination of social aid benefits and services in promoting integration into the labor world, the defense and dissemination of ethics, citizenship, human rights and other universal values.

To promote agroecological principles and rural entrepreneurship through capacity development and South-South exchange of quality farmer-to-farmer training videos in local languages.