Promoting education, autonomy and self-determination

For the second year running, building on the success of last year’s workshops, the not-for-profit association 4Tomorrow is offering graphic design training in ten African countries, backed by an international poster competition on the theme of ‘equality between the sexes.’

The Escola Livre de Dança da Maré (ELDM) is a training project for young dancers, founded by the not-for-profit group Redes de Desenvolvimento da Maré and the dance company of Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues.

Frères des Hommes is an association offering young people who do not attend school the chance to train as woodworkers, through the transmission of artisan skills and literacy classes.

La Lyr community centre in Pantin, in the north of Paris, provides new opportunities for young people not in education, introducing them to artisan trades with a new information area, talks and workshop visits.

Caritas Georgia provides crafts skills training for sixty young people from underprivileged backgrounds – in particular, the fine art of icon production – helping them to discover new confidence for the future.

The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès supports action by not-for-profit association Sport dans la Ville, working with businesses and municipal authorities to promote training and integration for young people living near the Hermès site at Pierre-Bénite, in the Grand Lyon agglomeration.

Accompanying 4 Tomorrow’s 2011 international poster competition on the theme ‘The Right to Education’, the association is sending leading figures from the world of graphic design to provide free training in poster art for volunteers in countries across Africa.

Since 2001, builders Thomas Granier and Séri Youlou have successfully reintroduced the Nubian vault building technique to Africa. Their not-for-profit association aims to develop the widespread use of constructions of this type, promoting knowledge-sharing among local artisans.

Dancer Anne-Karine Lescop is recreating choreographer Odile Duboc's 1993 work Projet de la matière, with a company of children aged 4 to 11.

Commandes spéciales is a Toronto-based programme giving children from under-privileged background the opportunity to see films, take part in workshops and meet directors, as part of the Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival For Children.

Since 2007, the Training Centre for Rural Skills and Trades has offered professional training for young ethnic Karen, promoting economic and agricultural development in Thailand's Northwestern Mae Sot region.

In 2008, struck by the dilapidation and vast size of many Indian orphanages, Pascal Fautrat founded a refuge in New Delhi, for twenty boys aged 4 to 16.

In association with several leading Paris fashion houses – members of the Cercle de l’Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) – the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès helps young people to train and discover creative professions in fashion and textiles.

In South Korea, 50 kilometres from Samcheok, Dogye High School produces stage musicals with children experiencing difficulties at school, rekindling their enthusiasm and commitment, and their taste for studying…

Established at South Korea's Aloysius Technical High School (founded by the Boys Town association), the Robot Club training scheme enables youngsters experiencing difficulties at school to learn valuable IT and hi-tech skills.

Founded in 1998 by two former professional football players, Raï and Leonardo, the Gol de Letra Foundation offers alternative educational programmes for children from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

With a new building opened in 2008, New York's Museum of Arts and Design offers guided tours and educational workshops tailored to the needs of underprivileged neighbourhood schools.

Founded in 1995, Kinkeliba promotes medical, educational and argricultural development in east Senegal.

Founded in 1989, the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud fights poverty and AIDS in 18 countries. In Myanmar, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès supports a programme to educate and protect vulnerable children outside the school system.

Founded in December 1999, this not-for-profit association supplies books and school materials collected in France to the remote regions of Saharan Mauritania.

Founded in 1998 by Françoise Grenot-Wang, the not-for-profit association Couleurs de Chine supports the building of schools, dormitory blocks and annexes in the Great Miao mountains of southern China, promoting access to school education for girls, and working to preserve local traditions.

Founded in 1991 by painter Gérard Garouste, La Source is a not-for-profit association organizing workshops designed to counter the effects of social exclusion on young people in isolated communities. Exhibitions and live shows provide a cultural focus in remote regions of rural France.

Established in Switzerland in 1993 and launched in France in 2000, Théodora is a not-for-profit association devoted to training performing artists to work in hospital pediatric departments, bringing a smile to the faces of some 20,000 children hospitalized each year.