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AGARESO (Galician Association of Communication for Social Change) is a non-profit organization, integrated by media professionals based in Galicia (Spain) who believe in communication as a fundamental right for citizenship, freedom and social justice.

Created in May 2008, AGARESO defines itself as a secular non-governmental development organization, politically committed but independent. We are convinced that communication is a powerful tool for social participation, people’s empowerment, Human Rights advocacy and social justice. We are committed to the design, production, implementation and dissemination of projects that contribute to the creation of a more critical citizenship in order to fight against global inequality.

• To fight against the structural causes of inequality and to promote social development based on community’s needs, while respecting their cultural identity and gender equality, and by guaranteeing their right to participation throughout the whole process.
• To raise awareness and to develop education activities for democracy, social justice, peace and solidarity at the local level.
• To organize, to train and to support volunteers to achieve these objectives in Global South countries, in Europe and in Spain.
• To promote education and training of media professionals in the research and coverage of information of a social nature, and to broaden their vision in the daily approach to storytelling on these issues, regardless of the media they work in, applying the ethical codes and specific regulations.
• To promote communication as an essential tool in the field of the Third Sector, through training, networking and building synergies.
• To achieve these objectives through a feminist strategy, where gender equality is the fundamental transversal variable in the development of our actions and projects.

• AGARESO develops interventions in the following areas:

• International Cooperation: projects focused on Communication for Social Change, such as strengthening community radio and TV channels, training community media reporters and professionals and supporting them for political and social advocacy work.
• Education for Social Change and Media Literacy: design and execution of educational projects both in formal and non-formal education fields, by using communication tools to reinforce reflection, critical awareness on global justice topics and, at the same time, to facilitate learning processes aimed to create counter-narratives and self-built storytelling. Meanwhile, we also work in training for teachers and stakeholders in innovative learning strategies and media literacy activities.
• Social Action: AGARESO places special emphasis on working with groups at risk of social exclusion by using communication as a tool to empower themselves, to build their own discourse and to fight for their rights.
• Awareness and Dissemination: through communication campaigns, media production and the dissemination of the results of our projects, AGARESO intends to influence society by making it aware of the need to fight against social injustice and inequality, while the need to support International Cooperation projects is highlighted.
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• Staff members of Agareso have a blended experience as trainers, facilitators and communicators. All the team members have been involved in ICT capacity building, media literacy projects and participatory media training, and combine this expertise as facilitators with their own experience as journalists and filmmakers on independent productions and broadcasting media. Skills of the team are:

  • Communitary media: radio & TV
  • Participatory Video
  • Media Literacy Training for youth & adults.
  • Media training within social organizations
  • Awareness campaigns
  • Media Production: documentary, radio, press release.
  • Project design and implementation.