Africa

Trade

Ghana

Friends of the Earth (FoE) Ghana

Theo Anderson, Private Mailbag, General Post Office, Accra, Ghana
Tel: 233 21 512311/512312
Fax: 233 21 512313
foeghana@africaonline.com.gh

[no web address]

FoE Ghana consists of 19 groups across the country, each with about 500 active members. The largest environmental organization in Ghana, we are dedicated to addressing environmental issues and promoting public awareness of these problems. Numerous successful campaigns and projects have brought the organization considerable expertise in forestry issues. FoE Ghana emphasizes the need to integrate environmental sustainability with gender equity. Major campaigns and programs underway are concerned with trade and the environment, mining, sustainable fisheries and agriculture.
Voluntary help needed: contact FoE Ghana directly.

Mali

Guamina

Siège Hamdallaye Rue 42, Porte 232, Marché Diafarana BP 2744, Bamako, Mali
Tel: 223 29 6329
Fax: 223 29 3194

guamina@buroticservices.net.ml
www.promali.org/guamina

Guamina, which means "united home for working, mutual aid, solidarity and sharing", was founded in 1988. The organization aims to support rural and urban populations in their daily fight to conquer poverty and become self-reliant. A newsletter is produced with grassroots support in two local languages, as well as French. Guamina’s core national campaign issues are mining and desertification. Guamina also works to promote the status of women, and provides training and literacy courses in the local language for women and other target groups.

Voluntary help needed: contact Guamina directly

Mauritius

Maudesco

PO Box 1124, Port Louis, Mauritius
Tel: 230 425 2417
Fax: 230 424 8500
maudesco@intnet.mu

[no web address]

Maudesco/FoE Mauritius was established in the wake of the setting up of the Brundtland Report in the 1990s. Its objectives are promoting sustainable development, environmental protection, and conservation issues. The membership of Maudesco includes youth, women, students, grassroot groups and other NGOs. The organization's main campaigns include sustainable tourism, protection of the ocean/coral reefs, climate change, renewable energy (solar), organic farming, compost making from household waste, awareness raising, training and seminars.

Voluntary help needed: contact Maudesco

Nigeria

Environmental Rights Action

PO Box 10577, Ugbowo, Benin City, Nigeria
Phone: 234 52 600165
Fax: 1 413 431 3512
eraction@infoweb.abs.net

www.eraction.org

Environmental Rights Action is dedicated to the defense of human ecosystems in terms of human rights, and to the promotion of environmentally responsible governmental, commercial, community and individual practice in Nigeria through the empowerment of local people. Environmental Rights Action became well known to Friends of the Earth members when its Chair, Nnimmo Bassey, was imprisoned by the Nigerian government as he left the country to attend a 1996 West African Friends of the Earth meeting. The group works locally, nationally and globally on the following campaigns: Forest and Development, Community Resource Centers, Oilwatch, Energy and Climate Change, Savanah, Dams and Desertification, and Environmental Information Service. Much of their efforts have concentrated on multinational oil companies and the protection of the Niger delta.

Voluntary help needed: contact Environmental Rights Action

Sierra Leone

Friends of the Earth (FoE) Sierra Leone

P.M. Bag 950, 33 Robert Street Freetown, Sierra Leone
Tel: 232 22 226577
Fax: 232 22 226577
foesl@sierratel.sl

[no web address]

FoE Sierra Leone has 25 local groups that promote environmental awareness, partly through their campaign on sustainable societies. FoE Sierra Leone also seeks to advance women and girls' roles in the sustainable management of resources. One example is the group's Intermediate Technology Centre, where villagers are trained in tailoring, typing, blacksmithing and toy making. FoE Sierra Leone publishes a newsletter called COTTON.

Voluntary help needed: contact FoE Sierra Leone

South Africa

Alternative Information and Development Centre

129 Rochester Road, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa OR PO Box 12943, Mowbray 7705, Cape Town, South Africa
Tel: +27-21-447 5770
Fax: +27-21-447 5884
info@aidc.org.za

www.aidc.org.za

Through its programmes, and by campaigning and coalition building, AIDC aims to contribute to the development of national, regional and international challenges to the currently dominant global economic system.
Through the empowerment and mobilisation of progressive organisations and popular social movements, it further aims to contribute to the development of alternatives that ensure fundamental socio-economic transformation.

Voluntary help needed: see AIDC website

Earthlife Africa

c/o Earthlife eThekwini, P.O. Box 18722, Dalbridge, 4014, South Africa
Tel: 27 82 652 1533
Fax: 27 11 339 4584
bryan@myweb.co.za

www.earthlife.org.za

Earthlife Africa was founded in Johannesburg in August 1988. It is a volunteer activist organization working for environmental and social justice, consisting of four autonomous branches - Johannesburg, eThekwini (Durban), Cape Town in South Africa and Earthlife Africa Namibia. Activities include campaigning on GMOs, toxic waste, dams, timberwatch, and clean energy, with a focus on capacity building and networking.

Voluntary help needed: see Earthlife website

Groundwork Trust

P.O. Box 2375, Pietermaritzburg, 3200, South Africa
Tel: 27 33 342 5662
Fax: 27 33 342 5665
team@groundwork.org.za

www.groundwork.org.za

Groundwork is a non-profit, environmental justice NGO working in Southern Africa. Their vision is to see communities affected by industrial pollution better able to defend and promote their environmental rights at local, national and international level.
Groundwork seeks to improve the quality of life of vulnerable people in South Africa, and increasingly in Southern Africa, through assisting civil society to have a greater impact on environmental governance.

Voluntary help needed: contact Groundwork

Public Services International (PSI)

P. O. Box 32136, ZA Braamfontein 2017, South Africa
Tel: 27.11.403.77.66 / 65
Fax: 27.11.403.24.79
psi@sn.apc.org

www.world-psi.org/psi.nsf

PSI unites public sector workers in more than 600 trade unions in over 140 countries. Twenty million women and men in a variety of public service jobs are members of PSI.
For nearly 100 years, PSI has fought for public services through its activities and campaigns, its regional structure, its association with other international organisations and its work on priority issues. PSI is an officially recognised non-government organisation - NGO - for the public sector within the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and has accreditation with UNESCO, ECOSOC and UNCTAD.

Voluntary help needed: see PSI website

Togo

Les Amis de la Terre

Mensah Franco Todzro, 63, Rue Amoussimé, BP 20190 "Caisse", Lomé, Togo
Tel: 228 2221731
Fax: 228 2221732
adt-togo@cafe.tg

[no web address]

The group has 700 members and sympathizers, and recently launched a bulletin called NONUDZO! (STAY AWAKE!). Desertification, phosphate mining, health and environment, debt and water resources are some of the group's main campaign issues at the national level. The group also takes part in FoEI campaigns on Climate Change, Desertification, Gender, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), Ozone, International Financial Institutions, Forestry, Mining and Sustainable Societies. Les Amis de la Terre is a volunteer association, and holds international work camps each summer to construct schools and plant trees, among other activities. The group recently opened their center for Documentation and Information on the Environment and Sustainable Developement, part of their environmental education work.

Voluntary help needed: contact Les Amis de la Terre

Tunisia

ATPNE

Mohamed Ali Abrougui, 12 Rue Tantaoui, El Jawhari, El Omrane, Tunis 1005, Tunisia
Tel: 216 1 288 141
Fax: 216 1 797 295
mohamedali.abrougui@atpne.rnrt.tn

[no web address]

With 20 local groups, ATPNE is an important environmental defender in Tunisia. It also maintains a high profile outside the country for its work as the representative of northern African NGOs in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). ATPNE's campaigns focus on agriculture, biodiversity, forests, animal protection and pollution, and they recently launched an awareness campaign. The organization works by carrying out field projects with local people (especially rural women), performing studies, giving advice, and participating in seminars and other events. ATPNE also lobbies the government for improved environmental legislation.

Pan-African

ATTAC

www.attac.org

ATTAC (Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens) is an international network of independent national and local groups in 33 countries. It promotes the idea of an international tax on currency speculation (the Tobin Tax) and campaigns to outlaw tax havens, replace pension funds with state pensions, cancel Third World debt, reform or abolish the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and, more generally, recapture the democratic space that has been lost to the financial world. ATTAC is independent from all political parties, and brings together labour unions, associations, MPs, academics and citizens from all walks of life, in self-education and peaceful action.
Voluntary help needed: See local links on ATTAC website

Public Services International (PSI)

B.P. 8473, TG Lomé, Togo
Tel: 228.221.8552
Fax: 228.221.2852
regional.office@psi-africa.org

www.world-psi.org/psi.nsf

PSI unites public sector workers in more than 600 trade unions in over 140 countries. Twenty million women and men in a variety of public service jobs are members of PSI.
For nearly 100 years, PSI has fought for public services through its activities and campaigns, its regional structure, its association with other international organisations and its work on priority issues. PSI is an officially recognised non-government organisation - NGO - for the public sector within the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and has accreditation with UNESCO, ECOSOC and UNCTAD.
Voluntary help needed: see PSI website

Via Campesina

Secretaría Operativa, Operative Secretariat Tegucigalpa, Apdo. Postal 3628MDC, Honduras, C.A.
Tel: + 504-2394679
Fax: + 504-2359915
viacam@gbm.hn

www.viacampesina.org

Via Campesina is an international movement that coordinates peasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe. It is an autonomous, pluralistic movement, independent from all political, economic, or other denomination. It is integrated by national and regional organizations whose autonomy is respected.
Voluntary help needed: see Via Campesina website