Organization: Fundación Intercultural NOR SUD (Bolivia)
Description from website (http://www.norsud.org/):
“Fundación Intercultural NOR SUD is a non-governmental, non-profit, free of all partisan politics and religion. Se constituyó en Bolivia el 2 de febrero de 1992, a partir del primer movimiento de mujeres indígenas quechuas en sus primeros años como grupo intercomunal de base indígena. Bolivia was established in the February 2, 1992, from the first movement of indigenous Quechua women in their early years as a group-based inter-indigenous. En el año 1995 se consolida una alianza entre mujeres indígenas, ambientalistas, y profesionales de diversas ramas técnicas y se constituye como una ONG para así poder tener un mayor acceso y representación en la sociedad civil, buscando un ideal que responda a la justicia social, la conservación de la biodiversidad, la libertad, la autodeterminación, y la equidad de género, de raza y de supervivencia cultural.
In 1995 consolidated an alliance between women, environmentalists, professionals from various disciplines and techniques and is established as an NGO in order to have greater access and representation in civil society, seeking an ideal that is responsive to social justice, biodiversity conservation, freedom, self, and gender equity, racial and cultural survival.”
Contact: norsud@norsud.org
Foundation: Avina Foundation (Regional)
Description from website (www.avina.net):
“MISSION
To contribute to sustainable development in Latin America by encouraging productive alliances based on trust among social and business leaders and by brokering consensus around agendas for action.
VISION
We seek a prosperous, integrated, and democratic Latin America, inspired in its diversity, built in solidarity by its citizens, and known globally for its own model of sustainable and inclusive development. We want to be recognized as an effective and innovative organization that contributes to the sustainable development of Latin America.”
Contact: comunicaciones@avina.net
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