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"If we start to look at what we can do locally, but share ideas with others globally about how they are tackling similar problems, then it gives us a sense that we're actually tackling things globally, achieving some differences as a global community".

Clive Belgeonne
Project Worker
DEP

About DEP

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DEP is an educational charity that promotes development education in Greater Manchester and the north west.


Our Aims

Our Aims are to encourage and develop educational approaches and methods which will:

  • enable people to recognise in their own lives the links between North and South and to acknowledge how much we can learn from one another;
  • increase understanding of the economic, social, cultural, political, environmental and spiritual forces which shape the relationship between North and South and which affect us all;
  • enable people to achieve a more just and sustainable world, in their schools and communities as well as more widely, in which power and resources are more fairly shared by all.

Our Goals

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Our primary goals are to:

  • bring North-South issues (such as social justice, diversity, values, sustainable development and conflict resolution), and issues of poverty, into the formal education sector curriculum through subject areas such as Citizenship, PHSE, Geography etc;

  • broaden pupils' horizons by raising teachers' awareness of North-South issues. We do this through our resource centre, project work, training events, schools support, publications and networking.


DEP's History

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DEP was set up in 1978 by the United Nations Assocation. We have charitable status and have been a limited company since 1990. DEP is run by an experienced voluntary management committee, and is one of the largest Development Education Centres (DECs) with an excellent track record. We attract project funding and consultancy work, mainly in the area of education, due to our reputation for creativity, efficiency and delivery.

2004 was our 25th anniversary year, during which we celebrated with our Gathering the Threads AGM. This event included keynote presentations, discussions and presentations by teachers, school children, DEP project workers and volunteers.