Good Practices

The Central American Community Art Movement's creation: a regional ‘Art Mara’ to overcome the difficulties that subject the local population, and most especially its youths, to a life of marginalization and exclusion.

Education, job training, professional guidance, social and medical care. It is not a list of demands, but of services offered by the Mata Escura and Calabetão Association of Parochial Communities, an area that brings together close to 76 thousand inhabitants in the periphery of Salvador, Bahia.

Once one of the most violent cities of São Paulo State, Diadema saw its homicide rate plunge by 80% thanks to a public security plan in which town hall, state government and civil society joined forces.

In Salvador, a joint project between the community and military police involves Town Hall, local institutions, NGOs, and entities of public security.

Located in São Paulo, the Youth Citizenship Building project (JCC) , trains volunteer students in peace building, and improves strained relations between teens and the police. 

The Fight for Peace Sports Center at Complexo da Maré, celebrates the first year of its new premises, with close to 200 youths active in sports and budding citizenship.

“Gun Free Towns” project practically halves the number of homicides in San Martín, ranked among El Salvador’s 20 most violent townships. From November 2005 to June 2006 homicides dropped 40.7% and crimes committed with the use of firearms fell by 29%.  

Terre des Hommes Lausanne and Encuentros – Casa de la Juventud in collaboration with Peruvian public and private entities have developed a pilot program of restorative justice for offending teenagers, now bearing its first fruit.

Brazil’s Open School project was born in answer to youth homicide statistics practically doubling over weekends in Recife, Pernambuco. It has been extended to five other Brazilian States and will soon be adopted in Argentina and Peru.

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