"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 Us

DEP is an Educational Charity that promotes development education in Greater Manchester and the North West.

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 acknolwedge 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.

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* A note on terminology
There are various debates about terms such as 'First World/Third World' 'developed / developing / underdeveloped countries' and so on. We have chosen to use the term North and South. Although not geographically precise, they are less value-laden than many of the alternatives and are currently prefered by many activists and educators around the world. The terms came into widespread use after the publication of the Brandt report in 1980, an examination of the world economic system.