Celebrating International Literacy Day: The Path to Reading

By Diane Prouty, Karen Tietjen and Mark Sweikhart

September 7, 2012   |   0 comments

Three researchers sit at the back of a grade 2 classroom in a rural community hours from the capital city. This is one of the last classrooms on their list of schools to observe. They have visited classrooms around the country for the past two weeks collecting data on the teaching and learning of reading....
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Honduras Outreach Center Rolls Out “Red Carpet” for TV Stars

By Creative Associates International

August 28, 2012   |   0 comments

América Ferrera (who plays Betty Suarez on “Ugly Betty”) and Alexis Bledel (who plays Rory Gilmore on the “Gilmore Girls”) visited an Alianza Joven Regional Honduras Outreach Center this past Thursday. The two actresses visited the Nueva Suyapa Outreach Center in a area of Honduras’s capital Tegucigalpa overwhelmed by gang violence. Young people who grow up there have few opportunities and are often stigmatized by the very name of their barrio. ...
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A GBV Strategy: Thank Goodness

By Patricia Morris

August 21, 2012   |   0 comments

At least one in three women and girls around the world is beaten or sexually abused in her lifetime and as much as four million women and girls are trafficked annually into forced marriage, prostitution, or slavery. ...
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International Youth Day

By Creative Associates International

August 13, 2012   |   0 comments

Creative's Alianza Joven Regional through its Youth Movement, Jóvenes contra la Violencia celebrated International Youth Day by launching its new strategy "C.A. 12/12". This new initiative will help join forces throughout Central America's youth to help reduce violence rates in the region....
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On a Journey with the AIDS Community: A Personal Perspective

By Mary Lyn Field-Nguer

July 26, 2012   |   0 comments

I am grateful to have had the opportunity to attend the XIX International AIDS Conference. Conferences are times of learning, gaining perspective, celebrating progress, lamenting areas where things are stalled, recommitting to the effort, and reuniting with colleagues who have become compatriots and friends in the struggle. ...
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