RESILIENCE
re·sil·ience
/rəˈzilyəns/
1. The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness
2. The ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape
ARTISTS are turning abandoned POLICE stations into community centers to offer CHILDREN alternatives to the ruling NARCO-culture.
GIRLS are BIKING around the city at NIGHT to empower other WOMEN to feel SAFER.
DOCTORS are tired of being THREATENED, KIDNAPPED or murdered by organized crime. They are PROTESTING, demanding AUTHORITIES to protect them while hospitals are creating their own SECURITY protocols.
A small NEWSPAPER insists on INVESTIGATING stories about drugs and crime, in spite of threats from NARCOS and GOVERNMENT officials ALIKE.
All over the world, people are enduring the tragic consequences of organized crime.
The #GIresilience Project is working in fragile zones to investigate the sources of COMMUNITY RESILIENCE:
To bring LOCAL actors into the GLOBAL debate
To engage the INTERNATIONAL community in creating ENVIRONMENTS that MITIGATE the threats of organized crime,
where all can have a chance to THRIVE.
Credits:
Created with images by Siria Gastelum, RECUPERARTE, stevepb - "drugs cocaine user" • Meditations - "agent armed armour" • diegoattorney - "defense attorney defense lawyer criminal defense lawyer"