AVSI-USA Newsletter

The latest edition of AVSI-USA News was published in April 2008.

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United Nations High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS: Side Event Report

** New ** Back To(wards) My Home: Stories of Moving on from Displacement in Northern Uganda

** New ** AVSI in Latin America

Youth Employment & Corporate Social Responsibility: Arvore da Vida Project in Brazil

Stories of Hope: Success Stories from AVSI's Program for Orphans and Vulnerable Children

Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of AIDS: A Report on AVSI Uganda's methodology and outcomes

AVSI Social Report 2006

AVSI Social Report 2005

** New ** AVSI Uganda Annual Report 2007

AVSI Uganda Annual Report 2006

AVSI Uganda Annual Report 2005

• Challenges of the Informal Town: Routes Towards the Integration of Peri-Urban Settlements [ more ]
  A publication in English and Portuguese the documents the interventions and workshops held as part of an international seminar in preparation for the UN Habitat II Conference in 1995. The documents cover topics ranging from land regularization in Latin America, women's participation in urban upgrading, physical infrastructure improvement, public policy and urban management and children in the informal setting.
  
  
• Educar-se Para Educar [ more ]
  A publication produced in Portuguese in 2001 presents a discussion of education and methodologies of education, drawing from a conference entitled "The Risk of Education" and held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
  
  
• Educate every child, in the family, in the community, in the world [ PDF ]
  A short booklet produced in 2001 in English and Italian which profiles a number of AVSI projects and experiences supporting children in difficult circumstances around the world. Includes chapters on the role of adults as educators and the methodological approach of a caring society.
  
  
• Education and Employment in Rural Development: Practices from Six Countries [ PDF ]
  This booklet, published in English, Italian and Spanish, offers an outline of the historical and current global challenges to achieve freedom from hunger and malnutrition and presents the method and the contents of AVSI practices from 6 countries as examples of an integrated approach to face these challenges promoting rural development through education and employment.
  
  
• Pobreza y Patrimônio: A Comunidade do Planalto II. [ more ]
  Printed in Italian and Portuguese, this volume presents issues of poverty and the inherent human potential that exists even within situations of poverty with an in-depth look at one community in Brazil and the experiences of AVSI there.
  
  
• Taller de Análisis sobre Ninos y Ninas en Situación de Vulnerabilidad
  This book is a compilation of interventions shared at a workshop of civil society organizations, academics and government leaders dedicated to helping children facing situations of vulnerability.
  
  
• The Challenges of HIV/AIDS: Twenty Years of Struggle, Knowledge and Commitment for Action [ PDF ]
  A booklet produced in 2001 which provides an overview of the challenge of AIDS in Africa, with a specific focus on Uganda, and includes a collection of presentations made at the Meeting of Friendship among Peoples, during a conference entitled, "Has the monster been caged? Twenty years of struggle against HIV/AIDS."
  
  
• The Real City: Methods and Actions to Upgrade Informal Urban Areas
  A presentation of the 15 years of experience of AVSI in Brazil, presented to the "Urbanizing World and UN Habitat II" Conference in 2001.