Development Cooperation Handbook/Stories

Development Stories 27px ⇒ Playlist on Youtube thumb| How we produced the videos linked to this handbook We are narrating here development cooperation stories. Some of these stories have been used for the 17px ⇒ the Vrinda project Documentary The numbers (in brackets) refer to the relevant MDG. right|37px Africa right|px250 19px ⇒ Community Tourism - Number2 River - (7) 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Emergency Surgical Hospital - Goderich - (4) 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Mothers Preparing Mothers - Susan and Cline Bays (1) (5) 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Unsustainable Growth - Kono Town (7) 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Women as Entrepreneurs - Petifu Chain (3) 17px ⇒ playlist India 19px ⇒ A contagious joy transmitting health to children - (4) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Millennium Village Project - Jharkhand (1) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Learning to Share Learning - The KFI Story (2), (6) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Corporate Social Responsibility - Bengaluru, (2) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Employment as a Right - Varanasi (1) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Green Hands - Coimbatore (7) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Living with Dignity - Kolkata (6) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Responsible Development - Varanasi (8) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Right to Learn - Sarnath (2) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Weaving Empowerment - Almora (3) - 17px ⇒ playlist Lebanon 19px ⇒ Diffusing Conflicts - South Lebanon (8) 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Heritage and Community - Baalbek (8) 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Peer to Peer Education Network on HIV/AIDS Prevention (6) Syria 19px ⇒ Valuing Water - Damascus (7) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Counselling Centres for Women - Damascus (5) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Village Business Incubator - Latakkia (3) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Improving Schools and Learning Environment - Damascus (2) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Youth & Heritage - Sweida (8) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Preservation and Development - MAM - Damascus (8) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Moving Hopes - Damascus (4) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Syrian Television - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ BESP - Business Environment Simplification Program (8) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ SKILLS - Training Young Syrian Journalists (8) - 17px ⇒ playlist Colombia 19px ⇒ Los derechos de la hospitalidad para las personas sin hogar - Bogotà (1) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Participación y empoderamiento - Barrio Villas Del Sol - Territorio de Derechos (2) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Community at Work - Ciudad Bolivar - Jan Pablo II (1) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Muisca Indigenous Heritage - (8) - 17px ⇒ playlist 19px ⇒ Desplazados - Santander (8) - 17px ⇒ playlist Cuba 19px ⇒ Lo sviluppo sostenibile: il caso Cuba ⇒ playlist thumbtime=003|thumb| The documentary approach Tools 20px ⇒ List of things to do in order to illustrate a project What is development? So many hospitals built … so many teachers trained … so many villages electrified … and so on, so forth. Achieving objectives is, of course, important. But there is something else we need to say. It is the human story, the passion that drives cooperation workers, the joy - or frustration – they feel when they succeed - or fail - to bring more justice to the excluded. We need to reveal the challenges. How are local communities utilizing infrastructures created for them? Do they agree with the information they receive? Was, what donors gave away, really what receivers wanted? While collecting stories of the work in progress for the Millennium Goals, we learned that no-one can bring freedom to others. Empowerment cannot be "given". Like we cannot “deliver” education. Nor can we “buy” participation. Each one has to lead one's potential out of oneself. But, in order to recognize and express our potential, we need a society that does not marginalize and exclude. We need a healthy communication climate, where differences are respected and valued. We need freedom from mistrust and indifference. Only then, can we act in a reciprocally empowering process: because we acknowledge that, in order to fully realize ourselves, we need the self realization of the others. The stories edited in the Documentary: 17px ⇒ playlist on YouTube - Episodes 1-4 17px ⇒ playlist on YouTube - Episodes 5-8 17px ⇒ The Vimeo On Demand platform where the documentary is distributed 15px ⇒ The Sustainable Development Goals /Stories