DEA | Promoting education for a just and sustainable world

DEA - promoting education for a sustainable and just world

DEA is an education charity that promotes global learning. We work to ensure that people in the UK learn about global issues such as poverty and climate change and develop an open-minded, global outlook.

Our present focus is on schools and youth work. We work to change what people learn and how they learn, through influencing policy and improving educators' practice. Our national network of member organisations and supporters share our conviction that the role of education today is crucial in shaping a better tomorrow.

DEA's members include many large development and environment NGOs, as well as a wide network of Development Education Centres and education NGOs based locally around the UK.

Our vision is for all citizens to understand the global challenges we face and develop the capabilities to create a more just and sustainable world.

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Africa United – invitation to advance screening

Africa United tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children and their dream to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup in Johannesburg. During their 3,000 mile journey, we encounter an Africa few people see; experience an epic adventure across seven countries; and feel the joy, laughter and hope that comes from making an incredible journey together.

Africa United is a dramatic story but it is also very important from an International Development point of view since it provides a fantastic opportunity to raise important issues with a wider audience. Our two leads are AIDS orphans and the friends they make along the way include a child soldier and a child sex worker. This screening is for staff of International Development organisations to consider how to make the most of this unique opportunity. Africa United is made by Pathe, who produced Slumdog Millionaire

Damaris Trust will create a set of special resources to accompany the film which will be provided free of charge to International Development organisations. You can adapt these resources, combining them with your own material and under your brand. We want to help you use the film to make as big an impact on as many people as possible.

To get tickets for this special preview RSVP to africaunited@damaris.org or call 023 80682750 giving the name, job title and email address of each person. There is a limit of five tickets per organisation.

(General release in the UK from 22nd October.)

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23/06/2010 Engaging the public with global poverty event

The first of a series of round tables events flowing on from the Global Learning Charter, was hosted by the Earl of Sandwich in the House of Lords yesterday (22nd June).

Lord Sandwich welcomed senior representatives of the major development NGOs, as well as Charter signatories, academics, and policymakers from the Department for International Development (DFID).

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25/05/2010 Queen's Speech reaction: Education charity welcomes MDG aid pledge

Hetan Shah, the chief executive of the education charity, DEA, today welcomed the commitment outlined in the Queen's Speech today to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on aid from 2013 to improve the lives of those in the poorest nations.

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29/07/2010 New research on young people's interest in global issues

The results of a new survey from DEA member GLEAN (the Global Learning Network South West) offers an interesting picture of young people's interest in and knowledge about global issues.

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27/07/2010 The complexity of aid

In an interesting article in the Guardian, Madeleine Bunting outlines the backlash against aid. She says "Aid cynicism is on the rise, boosted by the work of people such as US economist Bill Easterly, with his influential Aidwatch blog, and Dambisa Moyo, whose book Dead Aid attracted much attention despite the inadequacies of its proposals.

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