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Where and how is cooperaxion involved?Poverty is huge in the countries on the former shipping routes between Europe, Africa and the Americas. Hunger and poverty are very often at the roots of exploitation and migration. In Africa, the young people have no perspectives in their countries and take many risks to come to Europe – on the same route, in the opposite direction. |
 Kick for Your Future! In Liberia’s capital Monrovia, cooperaxion is involved in a project around soccer, waste management and education to occupy Liberia’s youth and give them new perspectives, but also to promote the social cohesion that suffered during the 14 years of civil war... more |
 Harbour cities, such as São Luís in Brazil's north-east, were once slave trade hubs; today they are focal points of high hopes and bitter misery of the people leaving the rural areas. cooperaxion is committed to the poor people (whose ancestors often were slaves) in the slums on the outskirts of São Luís and the landless people in its hinterland... more |
 Switzerland was neither a seafaring nation nor a colonial power! Then what has she got to do with the slave trade? Switzerland never had colonies, but private and cantonal actors benefited in many ways from the transatlantic trade triangle... more |
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