2008
Award for Local Leadership – 2008
Senegal
The management of the beach of Ngor
Tags: local development, participative management, environment, politics, employment
«Managing the beach of Ngor causes problems; fishermen, tourists and local swimmers want, each, some satisfaction at the beach.»
«As a civil society we commit ourselves to assure that all questions about the local development finds answers for the interest of the community.»
Award for Entrepreneurship – 2008
Cameroon
Africaura, the African way
Tags: television, prejudice, appreciation, development, art
«A footage on television to allow African people to discover themselves through their aspirations/ambitions, their hope, their way of seeing things and planning life and the prejudges which make them the victims.»
«Our small and big screens are overwhelmed by images about ourselves but these images come from somewhere else, and we are often addicted to these images,... our African culture has tools that we can use for our development.»
Award for Civil Society – 2008
Tanzania
KICORA (Kigoma Community College by Radio), education by radio for the populations of Kigoma
Tags: education, information, civil society, radio, prejudice
«The objective of KICORA is to give a second chance of education, starting from the primary school level, to the many people in Kigoma who, for different reasons that include poverty and diseases, missed their first opportunity to register in formal school programs when they were young.»
«The project of Deo takes roots in a sad experience; at the height of a civil war in his country Deo is jailed. Then he is released with no trial after a year in custody. In the jail he develops the idea of a school where people would learn about responsible citizenship. After his release he goes to Belgium where he creates KICORA.»
Award for Entrepreneurship – 2008
Senegal
Handifestival, an international festival for people with a handicap
Tags: handicap, appreciation, prejudice, awareness raising, festival
«We wanted to show that people with a handicap can also contribute to the development of their country.»
«Such a cultural event can change the regard of each person towards people with a handicap. In Senegal having a physical weakness/handicap is understood as a non capability.»
Honorary prize – 2008
Mali
Seed of hope, a news brief for rural people in Mali
Tags: agriculture, local development, information, traditions, valorisation
«Seed of hope boosts the local information in rural areas; it strives to promote techniques which are effective in agriculture but which, unfortunately, are disappearing. One of them is the traditional way of preserving seeds. Seed of hope wants to restore these techniques.»
The saying that «Our land is not thirsty of its fighters’ blood; it needs, in contrary, the sweat of its people, defies the burden and difficulties of the daily struggle for life and invites people for hard working.»
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2014
The Harubuntu International Prize will not be held until further notice. After 6 intensive and exciting years, we take a step back, capitalization and learning.
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Winners 2013: videos are online
Video presentation of the winners in 2013 are finally online. Visit the Press section!
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Harubuntu awards 2013
The award-giving ceremony will take place in Brussels on December 6th at the end of a two days workshop on ownership: "Ownership in progress: two days to share our tools and experiences". Congratulations to Yasmina El Alaoui, Laurien Ntezimana, Noëline Razanadrakoto, Achidi Valentin Agon, Juana Vetsohantaina Hellia and Florida Makarubuga.
