Lighthouse promotes sustainability in two ways:
❝Epistemic justice: that is to say, who decides (wittingly or unwittingly) what gets to constitute ‘proper’ knowledge, and who and what is in or out in terms of accessing and defining such knowledge.❞
McDermott, Mark R. et al.. 2020
They can be informal groups, associations, a participatory research project, etc., acting locally or internationally on one or more aspects of social and ecological sustainability.
With the selected initiatives, we develop a partnership through one of our programs oriented to the systematization and exchange of knowledge and its dissemination, promoting networking, making connections between initiatives, in addition to possible financial support for specific projects.
These are some of the initiatives that are part of our programs. Click on the logo or the name of the initiatives to learn more about the collaborative work that has been carried out.
A volunteer-run initiative in Barcelona (Spain) to combat homelessness by offering temporary residence and accompaniment to men in the neighborhood.
Association in Lüneburg (Germany) that supports the region of Intag in Ecuador by promoting education and communication projects there and also raising awareness in Germany about the destructive effects of copper mining.
Collaboration with the organization Cocawi, Los Andes (Bolivia). Construction of a solar tent for planting vegetables. At the same time, the project is working on challenges related to food, climate change and social cohesion. Multiple actors are involved and coordinated.
Collaboration with the organization Cocawi, Los Andes (Bolivia). Construction of a solar tent for planting vegetables. At the same time, the project is working on challenges related to food, climate change and social cohesion. Multiple actors are involved and coordinated.
Organization in Vilanova y la Geltrú (Spain), dedicated to the scientific study, its dissemination and preservation of the aquatic environment, especially cetacean research in the Mediterranean.
Guenda Rudxiba Guendaró Stinú, (the right of the people to grow their own food) Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca (Mexico). Cooperative that implements aquaponic and agroecological systems in a population with few possibilities of self-sufficiency in animal or vegetable protein.
Clean Ocean Project -Fuerteventura, (Canary Islands, Spain), NGO dedicated to the care of the beaches and the sea through its projects, with the involvement of the population, tourism and local establishments.
The Kaadina Makkalu Initiative, based in Bangalore, South India, supports coffee production and consumption for biodiversity conservation and social welfare by communicating the knowledge of local and indigenous coffee farmers in this regard.
An initiative from Venezuela, committed to the agricultural and productive development of rural communities. “A traveling forging school” that travels to highly isolated rural Andean communities to teach the craft of iron forging.
An initiative in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) that brings together thirty libraries from all over the country, and that knows the techniques of sharing knowledge through free software offered to organize libraries.
A social company from Buenos Aires (Argentina), which manages the periodic publication of a magazine of social, ecological, artistic and cultural interest, with the aim of offering resources to homeless people in Buenos Aires.