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Asonedh - Peru On Peru, the afro descendant community is invisible; we are not include on the republic constitution as the indigenous community are. We also are not considerate on the national census since 1940, so, we do not have asonedhperu.org national information about our situation, as afroperuvian community, we do not know how much we are and what are our relevant needs. In plus at this situation we have all the social stereotypes, that is a legacy of the slaver process, and until now have a strong position on the Peruvian society. A consequence of this politic and social situation, the afroperuvian youth have the reaction of refuse to their identity and cultural background of the afro descendant roots. ASONEDH is a non-governmental organization, which work around all the country for most than 25 years. With the goal of to contribute on the fight against the racism, discrimination and poverty afro descendant. We working actively in to rise the actively citizen participation and human rights, improve also the empowerment of the identity, leadership, human rights and politic incidence for afroperuvian youth of the rural communities of Peru. We also work with the promotion of the public polices of social inclusion and affirmative actions at national and international level looking for a real and truly communitarian development and the visibility of afroperuvians leaderships in politic spaces of decision makers at local, national and international level. ASONEDH develop actions for the education, promotion of the economic rights and afro descendants entrepreneurships, for to hold up the culture, contributions, identity and particular characters of the community. The strong links between ASONEDH and the afroperuvian community will be very important in the in the previous research that are going to be made, and also will have a key importance their previous experience with young people of the area. The valorisation and visualisation of the afropervian community is one the main objective of this NGO, which fits perfectly with this project and will be a great asset in the dissemination of the project. 10

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