urban activism worldwide: enabling entrepreneurship
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Enabling Entrepreneurship
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DreamBox Hong Kong, China
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DreamBox encourages people to design and build their own products and provides and a shop where they can be sold.
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It is also possible to recycle used items — old toys, for instance — for sale in DreamBox’s shop.
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Rede de Centrais de Serviços Central of Services Network Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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This network of self-employed workers offers professional services in construction, sewing, catering, maintenance, and general household work.
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A central operator channels service orders to associates who negotiate the jobs with clients and serve as liaisons with the workers.
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BiciCentro Bologna, Italy
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BiciCentro collects broken bicycles from the train station parking lot, fixes and sells them to students.
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Pollus & Jowanel Arts & Crafts Association Votuporanga , Brazil
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This association teaches craft techniques to children and elderly residents of the town of Votuporanga.
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They re-use discarded industrial materials donated by the local furniture companies Pollus and Jowanel.
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Talking Beads Women Collective Pretoria, South Africa
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Talking Beads is a collective of poor women whose goal is to empower themselves and their communities by running Their own business selling artisanal craftworks.
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The House of Youth Tehran, Iran
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The House of Youth provides support to art students and housewives to develop and sell their own products to gain financial independence.
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Työ & Toiminta Employment and Environmental Activism Helsinki, Finland
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The main goal of Työ & Toiminta is to provide work for unemployed, immigrant, and disabled people.
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The organization, which runs a second-hand store, also aims to promote sustainability by increasing the life cycle of consumer goods and finding new ways of recycling.
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La Boutique Pédagogique Training Shop Paris, France
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La Boutique Pédagogique offers professional sales courses and opportunities for students to put theory into practice at its on- site shop.
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The organization’s aim is To enable young people and adults who are unemployed or have limited education to find fulfillment through their work.
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The shop only sells fair trade products.
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Vila das Canoas Community Based Tourism Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Vila das Canoas residents offer tourists lodging in their houses, in order to show visitors another image of the shantytown while generating income inside the community.
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This practice also facilitates the exchange of cultural knowledge, particularly via foreign languages.
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Hababusch Hostel Weimar, Germany
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Hababusch Hostel is a non-profit facility created by students who wanted to restore and live in an old building in Weimar.
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Students aim to facilitate cultural exchanges by offering cheap accommodations to other students and travelers.
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Creative Education Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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The aim of this initiative is to bring schools and artists together for educational purposes.
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An organization, BISK, mediates between schools and artists, who are invited to workshops to develop students’ creative and artistic skills.
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Guided by artists, students create artworks from garbage, discovering the potential of everyday materials and finding and creating new meanings out of discarded objects.
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Horta Comunitária Community Vegetable Garden Boa Esperança, Brazil
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This community garden initiative offers work to the unemployed and helps integrate residents into the neighborhood.
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This project was created as a strategy to fight hunger and to increase civic participation in suburban districts.
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