World Cup tickets for sale: who profits?
Last week, the first tickets for the World Cup in Brazil went on sale. A total number of around 3.3 million tickets will be available, costing between $90 and $990 each. But who will benefit? Recent demonstrations in Brazil have revealed that the World Cup in 2014 is not all good news, as the majority of the Brazilians seemed to have believed for a long time. Our colleagues from CASA, a Brazilian small grants organisation focusing on environmental issues and sustainable development, are looking for practical ways to turn the tide and make a positive contribution.
Fair and green World Cup
“People in Brazil are much more aware of the huge amounts of money being spent on the event, of evictions and other human rights violations and of the unequal distribution of profits”, says Ana Campbell, project manager at CASA. “Until now though, there has not been a great deal of attention for the environmental damage caused by the World Cup or for ways to make this a real fair and green World Cup. How can we promote green initiatives around the event? How can we see to it that the benefits generated by the event also reach the poor? How can we make people understand that we will all profit from protecting the environmental wealth of Brazil?”
Local action
To find some answers and practical solutions, CASA organized an event from 23 until 25 august. Projects from different local organisations and groups in Brazil, all in some way involved with or affected by the World Cup, were selected by CASA. One group from São Paulo, for example, is planning to make a documentary to raise awareness among citizens and the government about the importance of transparency in the planning of public urban infrastructure and to show the social and environmental impacts caused by major events like the World Cup 2014. Two groups from Rio de Janeiro have joined together to look for solutions to improve their environment and plan to restore the Restinga Lagoon border. An important part of this project is to tell their stories to the communities involved to get them involved and motivated.These are just two out of the fourteen projects selected by CASA.
Romario
The meeting was titled ‘A Copa do Mundo em Meu Lugar’ (‘The World Cup in my place’) and focused on communication. “The question is how to tell your experiences in such a way that our audience not only understands the problem, but is also motivated to take immediate action. That was the main theme this weekend”, says Campbell. “We originally invited Romário de Souza Faria who, like many celebrities and athletes in Brazil, is supporting the protests to attend the opening of this weekends’ event. Although he couldn’t make it this time, we will certainly invite him on future occasions. His presence is very important to us; it would give much more visibility to the great work of the small local groups and organisations we work with."
Both ENDS will give regular updates about the work CASA does around the World Cup.
Read more about this subject
-
News / 22 januari 2025 -
Publication / 16 januari 2025
-
News / 16 januari 2025DetoX: Both ENDS leaves X
Both ENDS, along with many other Dutch organisations, is leaving social media platform X. In January, we will join the campaign ‘#DetoX’ by De Goede Zaak and Stem op een Vrouw. We hope that many organisations will follow us so that the hate, misinformation and the undermining of democracy on X are given less space.
-
News / 13 januari 2025New partnership with Netherlands Enterprise Agency for resilient food systems in Sahel
The situation in Africa's Sahel is the world's fastest-growing humanitarian crisis. Over 3 million people are fleeing violence. They are ravaged by hunger, disease and increasing drought caused by climate change. Both ENDS and its partners are successfully working on accelerating the resilience of local food systems and communities in the Sahel, based on ‘Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration’ (FMNR). The project, funded by DOB Ecology, will end in mid-2026, but has already been followed up thanks to a new collaboration with the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO).
-
Video / 6 januari 2025 -
Publication / 6 januari 2025
-
Publication / 6 januari 2025
-
Publication / 3 januari 2025
-
Video / 3 januari 2025Dare to Trust: Jarai Women of Cambodia
With the Dare to Trust grant, the Taing Se Malu organization decided to purchase pigs that can be raised and increased in quantities by the women members of their organization. More importantly, through the grant, they formed a women’s group and a youth group to empower them in their pursuit of a more gender-just community.
-
Video / 3 januari 2025Dare to Trust: the Tumandok Women from the Philippines
With resources that the ATBBB women's group received for their Dare to Trust-project, they decided to move forward with growing, processing and selling what they have at their disposal: coffee. They created a production center for their community based enterprise.
-
Video / 3 januari 2025NTFP-EP Asia supports women's groups with Dare to Trust-grants
NTFP-EP Asia has given small grants to two grassroots women’s organisations in the Philippines and Cambodia. These grants are part of our Dare to Trust project, a pilot with unconditional funding supported by the Dutch Postcode Lottery.
-
Publication / 23 december 2024
-
Video / 23 december 2024Dare to Trust: LILAK supports women to start sustainable agriculture
Indigenous women in Didipio, Philippines, grew close to each other when confronting the mining corporation OceanaGold. Now they continue their struggle collectively in the women's group "Bileg Daggiti Babbai". With the help of LILAK they started a sustainable farming project, which helps them make a living to support their day to day needs and afford their children's education.
The project was made possible in Both ENDS's Dare to Trust project, supported by the Dutch Postcode Lottery.
-
Publication / 23 december 2024
-
News / 19 december 2024Trading Away the Future: How the EU-Mercosur deal fails people and the planet - and what needs to be done
On December 6, the visit of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to the Mercosur Summit sealed the agreement on the final text of the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement. Both ENDS condemns this damaging agreement for undermining human rights, the environment, and democracy in Europe, and in Mercosur countries. Should the agreement be ratified as it stands, it will have devastating consequences for the environment, indigenous communities, family farming and small-scale farmers on both sides of the Atlantic.
-
Letter / 16 december 2024
Urgent call to halt all divestments in the Niger Delta, including Shell's refused sale of SPDC shares
The proposed sale of Shell’s shares in the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to the Renaissance consortium, alongside similar divestments by TotalEnergies and other oil companies, threatens the Niger Delta and its people environmental and social well-being for generations to come.
-
Press release / 12 december 2024Website names companies excluded by global investors and banks
The Hague/San Francisco, Dec 12, 2024 - The updated version of the Financial Exclusions Tracker is released today: financialexclusionstracker.org. The website tracks which companies are being excluded by institutional investors, pension funds and banks due to human rights, public health and sustainability issues. The most common reasons for exclusion are links to fossil fuels, weapons or tobacco.
The Financial Exclusions Tracker is an initiative from an international coalition of NGOs striving for more transparency and information disclosure.
-
Dossier /Dare to Trust: the power of unconditional funding
In 2023, Both ENDS teamed up with the Dutch Postcode Lottery to show the power of trust-based partnership. In the project 'Dare to Trust', we distributed grants to 14 grassroot women's groups worldwide, no strings attached. We aim to show donors that a chain of trust is possible - from the back donor to the intermediary to the local partner.
-
Event / 12 december 2024, 13:00 - 14:30Exploring new avenues of CSO participation in UNCCD processes
Enhancing inclusivity within UNCCD processes and its implementation by strengthening the involvement of civil society organizations (CSOs) and Indigenous Peoples.
-
Event / 11 december 2024, 13:00 - 14:30Making strategic impact: Shifting resources and power to women-led initiatives for Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN)
How donors, foundations and other funders can better support women-led initiatives in achieving Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), focusing on challenges, collaboration, and opportunities for improved matchmaking.
