| Spain - La Caixa Foundation Helps Renovate Dianova's Santa Lucia Center |
 The donation, which amounts 200,000 Euros, will be dedicated to completing the heavy work necessary for the makeover of the Santa Lucia center near Ambite (Madrid region). Santa Lucia offers a therapeutic and educational program that annually benefits more than 600 people struggling with substance abuse-related problems.
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| Dianova Joins the European Action on Drugs |
 The European Action on Drugs works around a simple idea: since a huge number of people and organizations have roles to play in disseminating information and raising awareness about the risks of drugs abuse, particularly among young people, the European Commission is proposing that anyone who carries formal responsibility of some kind has decision-making powers.
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| Nicaragua: Club Dianova Espartinas, a Hotbed of Talent |
Since its inception, the Las Marias Holistic Education Center has placed great emphasis on student sports. In Nicaragua, the latter represents a tool that is particularly appropriate to encouraging personal development and the adequate integration of youth. Las Marias center provided the country with many young sportsmen and sportswomen who have won a number of local and national competitions.
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| 40th General Assembly of the Organization of American States in Lima (Peru) |
 Representatives from the 33 countries comprising the Organization of American States (OAS) convened in Lima, Peru on June 6-8, to discuss "Peace, Security and Cooperation in the Americas". Mr. Davide Brundu and Mr. Jordi Alos represented Dianova, along with members of other NGOs representing civil society.
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| A Review of the World Drug Report 2010 |
The World Drug Report 2010 exposes a serious insufficiency of drug treatment facilities around the world. The Report estimates that, in 2008, only approximately a fifth of problem drug users world-wide had received treatment in the past year, which means around 20 million drug dependent people that did not receive treatment
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| Spain - New Recycling Workshop Established at Santa Lucia Center |
 The "Recycling Difference" workshop, which is implemented in collaboration with Ecoembes, will help recycle packaging waste produced daily, and raise awareness of the need to preserve raw materials and energy, with the objective of helping to preserve the center's natural environment in the heart of the Vega del Tajuña region
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THE DIANOVA NETWORK
Dianova is an international NGO with consultative status to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC), operating in 11 countries of the Americas and Europe. Dianova develops innovative programs and projects in the fields of education, youth, addiction prevention and treatment, as well as in the area of social and community development
contact dianova international
Pasaje Pintor Serra Santa 15A, 1° 3.
E-08860, Castelldefels (Barcelona) SPAIN
Tél: (34) 93 636 57 30
Fax: (34) 93 636 32 47
Email: dianova@dianova.org
www.dianova.org
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The 18th International AIDS conference (Vienna, Austria, July 18-23) will gather all those working in the field of HIV: physicians and researchers, policymakers, people living with HIV/AIDS, NGOs and all those committed to taking up such important challenges as: achieving universal access to treatment, and fighting against all forms of discrimination and human rights violations.
The Spanish city council of Ambite, in the Madrid region, showed its support for a fundraising campaign to help rebuild the Dianova centers that were destroyed by Chile’s February 27th earthquake. The city council made its various communication networks available to the representatives of Dianova to help them get appropriate media coverage and audience participation.