DOCUMENT RESUME ED 432 500 SO 030 733 AUTHOR de Ravignan, Antoine TITLE Working and Inventing on the Streets of Africa. Innovations for Youth No. 1. INSTITUTION United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). ISSN ISSN-1020-0800 PUB DATE 1998-00-00 NOTE 65p.; "Education to Fight Exclusion" Project. AVAILABLE FROM Education to Fight Exclusion, UNESCO, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75732, Paris 07 SP, France. PUB TYPE Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Community Involvement; Developing Nations; Foreign Countries; *Global Approach; *Nongovernmental Organizations; Nonschool Educational Programs; Popular Education; *Social Services; *Youth Programs IDENTIFIERS *Africa; Asia; *Enda Tiers Monde; Latin America; Marginality; Senegal (Dakar) ABSTRACT This monograph considers the work of Enda-Tiers Monde, an international nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in Dakar, Senegal, which has many facets: street schools for working children, art and music shows for marginalized youth, town planning programs, income generation activities for prisoners, and drugs and AIDS prevention campaigns. The monograph describes and presents facts about some of Enda-Tiers Monde's programs and activities. It explains that Enda's teams work closely with local people in elaborating and carrying out programs in the belief that it is the young and the poor themselves (who normally have no say) who should conceive and carry out their own development strategies. According to the bulletin, Enda is attempting to redefine attitudes and approaches to work, learning, and environmental preservation, and is now carrying its activities to other countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The bulletin suggests that Enda Tiers-Monde's alternative approaches to today's world of globalization, urban expansion, economic instability, and fast demographic growth are of particular relevance to all those seeking an appropriate and equitable future for the countries of the southern hemisphere.(BT) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ******************************************************************************** E TIRE POOR PRINT Enda-Tiers Monde's work with youth in Dakar (Senegal) 5ERÔUiLLVCEA 4s10,0ear,ri' 7,15tEtiNE, er:Epirkitir$ -rati-vAiLLEUM U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS CENTER (ERIC) BEEN GRANTED BY This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it O Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Points of view or opinions stated in this cation to fight exclusion INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy tr. =1,2 ;&` 4.4- hi ,`i.' - ' ; , 4., , A - (. 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Images of youth unrest, economy as the impetus for income-generating activities. unemployment, delinquency, despair and conflict are all Through the informal economy, where solidarity and too well-known, as is the discourse on their causes, but entrepreneurial skills are vital, young people can acquire how well-known are the solutions being actively sought literacy skills and see the concrete results of learning, around the world, particularly in the countries of the working together and setting up businesses. South? With this present series, Innovations for Youth, UNESCO's youth project "Education To Fight The wealth of experience in the informal economy shows Exclusion" has decided to identify, promote and connect that young people, especially in the South, have not been particular projects around the world which are waiting around for answers to be given to them. Instead, indicative of new trends and seem to hold rich lessons in the sprawling and crowded cities of the world, they for all those combating youth marginalization. It is, have already begun to pull through, coming together in indeed, vital that governments, UN agencies, networks, creating associations and developing small international organizations, NGOs, educators and also jobs. It is UNESCO's task today, to validate their work communities learn of innovations for youth and acquire and use it as a way to elaborate strategies for change a new vision of how to approach young people's and create a renewed impetus for basic education for problems and learning needs. Current economic youth. The world can no longer afford to ignore the structures and education systems are obviously not plight of the world's excluded, notably in developing serving the interests of young people. Merely advocating countries. It is up to all those fighting for change to their expansion can only lead to further marginalization support projects and call for a better use of resources, of young people and accordingly further jeopardize the creating a wider and more sustainable vision of the future of the world. Change is urgently needed, world and education where young people, even the most particularly in the field of basic education. excluded, can find their place. As well as this series, UNESCO's project "Education To Contact: Fight Exclusion" also directly supports a selection of Education to Fight Exclusion projects in over 30 countries. 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'4, :1;IA4.7e1 VI'If.t#rI. 1 / "1 / 1 ' v f tents Live from a street school 6 Enda, the whole story 10 Children of Dakar, children in crisis 14 Enda Jeunesse Action: lessons from the field 17 Working children from around the world 21 Education: filling in for the State 26 Field trips 30 The prisons are open 32 Facing AIDS 35 Siggi, or going to scale 38 Culture for all, by all 40 Questions 43 Features A forum for popular arts and skills, the West-African "Ecopole" 50 Research-action-training: "our strategy for navigation" 52 Popular strategies for progress: another way of looking at the future 53 Enda around the world: the Malian example Rap Session 54 Enda and young people: teams in Dakar and elsewhere 58 Bibliography 60 Acknowledgements 61 The authors are responsible for the choice and presentation of the facts contained in this document and for the opinions expressed therein, which are not necessarily those of UNESCO and do not commit the Organization.