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Introduction
Contextos – Cooperativa para
o Desenvolvimento e Coesão
Social CRL is a non-profit coo-
perative with its head office in
the sunny city of Faro, Portugal.
The story began in 2016, with
the aim of answering the com-
munity’s social demands in an
integral way, as well as offering
custom-made solutions. Our
mission is to foster and promote
community empowerment and
development as the keystone of
processes of change in the so-
ciety, using participatory tools to
develop competencies and ca-
pabilities within individuals and
organizations. The projects we
implemented so far, as well as
our future projects, are focusing
on culture, media, education/tra-
ining, participatory democracy,
active citizenship, human rights,
Out of Contextos: The Magazine nº1
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PHOTO: Macarena Lasierra
intercultural dialogue, non-for-
mal learning, social entrepreneu-
rship, and social inclusion. The
approaches we use consist of a
diverse set of learning methods
in order to challenge people
to make use of a critical and
reflective attitude about their
own experiences (professional
and/or personal). We cooperate
with public institutions especia-
lly at local and regional levels,
schools, universities, vocational
and other educational institu-
tions, public and private social
inclusion organizations, and
other NGOs. The aim of our first
magazine number is to introdu-
ce ourselves and our projects,
to familiarise you with our past
events and also to keep you up-
dated with our future plans.
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