# Development Cooperation Handbook/Stories

Development Stories ⇒ Playlist on Youtube
We are narrating here development cooperation stories. Some of these stories have been used for the ⇒ the Vrinda project Documentary
The numbers (in brackets) refer to the relevant MDG.

### Africa

    ⇒ Community Tourism - Number2 River - (7) ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Emergency Surgical Hospital - Goderich - (4) ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Mothers Preparing Mothers - Susan and Cline Bays (1) (5) ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Unsustainable Growth - Kono Town (7) ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Women as Entrepreneurs - Petifu Chain (3) ⇒ playlist

### India

    ⇒ A contagious joy transmitting health to children - (4) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Millennium Village Project - Jharkhand (1) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Learning to Share Learning - The KFI Story (2), (6) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Corporate Social Responsibility - Bengaluru, (2) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Employment as a Right - Varanasi (1) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Green Hands - Coimbatore (7) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Living with Dignity - Kolkata (6) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Responsible Development - Varanasi (8) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Right to Learn - Sarnath (2) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Weaving Empowerment - Almora (3) - ⇒ playlist

### Lebanon

    ⇒ Diffusing Conflicts - South Lebanon (8) ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Heritage and Community - Baalbek (8) ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Peer to Peer Education Network on HIV/AIDS Prevention (6)

### Syria

    ⇒ Valuing Water - Damascus (7) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Counselling Centres for Women - Damascus (5) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Village Business Incubator - Latakkia (3) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Improving Schools and Learning Environment - Damascus (2) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Youth & Heritage - Sweida (8) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Preservation and Development - MAM - Damascus (8) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Moving Hopes - Damascus (4) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Syrian Television - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ BESP - Business Environment Simplification Program (8) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ SKILLS - Training Young Syrian Journalists (8) - ⇒ playlist

### Colombia

    ⇒ Los derechos de la hospitalidad para las personas sin hogar - Bogotà (1) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Participación y empoderamiento - Barrio Villas Del Sol - Territorio de Derechos (2) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Community at Work - Ciudad Bolivar - Jan Pablo II (1) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Muisca Indigenous Heritage - (8) - ⇒ playlist
    ⇒ Desplazados - Santander (8) - ⇒ playlist

### Cuba

    ⇒ Lo sviluppo sostenibile: il caso Cuba ⇒ playlist

## Tools

⇒ List of things to do in order to illustrate a project
* What is development?
* So many hospitals built … so many teachers trained … so many villages electrified … and so on, so forth.
* Achieving objectives is, of course, important.
* But there is something else we need to say.
* It is the human story, the passion that drives cooperation workers, the joy - or frustration – they feel when they succeed - or fail - to bring more justice to the excluded.
* We need to reveal the challenges.
* How are local communities utilizing infrastructures created for them? Do they agree with the information they receive? Was, what donors gave away, really what receivers wanted?
* While collecting stories of the work in progress for the Millennium Goals, we learned that no-one can bring freedom to others.
* Empowerment cannot be "given".
* Like we cannot “deliver” education.
* Nor can we “buy” participation.
* Each one has to lead one's potential out of oneself.
* But, in order to recognize and express our potential, we need a society that does not marginalize and exclude.
* We need a healthy communication climate, where differences are respected and valued.
* We need freedom from mistrust and indifference.
* Only then, can we act in a reciprocally empowering process: because we acknowledge that, in order to fully realize ourselves, we need the self realization of the others.
The stories edited in the Documentary:
⇒ playlist on YouTube - Episodes 1-4 ⇒ playlist on YouTube - Episodes 5-8 ⇒ The Vimeo On Demand platform where the documentary is distributed
⇒ The Sustainable Development Goals