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Innovations for Youth Series no 1. Enda-Tiers Monde's work with youth
in Dakar (Senegal)
UNESCO's Introdution to the publication
The international non-governmental organization, Enda Tiers Monde,
based in Dakar Senegal, has many facets: street schools for working
children, art and music shows for marginalized youth, town planning
programmes, income generation activities for prisoners, dnigs and
AIDS prevention campaigns, etc. Througjiont the streets of thecrowded
capital, in the most deprived slums; and with the people most at
risk, Enda is attempting to redefine attitudes and approaches to
work, learning and environmental preservation.
Strongly attached to the ideal of participation in any
development.project Enda's teams work closely with local people in
elaborating and carrying out programmes. They strongly believe that
it is the young and the poor themselves, who normally have no say,
who should conceive and carry out their own development strategies)
For it is their knowledge and art of survival, despite a lack of
resources, that hold the keys to success. Why shouldn't the poor, for
example, have a say in the planning of their cities? Why shouldn't
the excluded influence educational policies too? Why.I shouldn't the
imaginative lessons and skills of the popular or so-called informal
economy stimulate and boost development? Why rely on outside models
when the answer lies within?
Active in Senegal since 1972, Enda is now carring its activities to
other countries of Africa, Asia and to Latin America. Their
alternative approaches to today's world of globalization, urban
expansion, economic instability and fast L demographic growth are of
particular relevance to all those seeking an appropriate and
equitable future for the counties of the South.