Election Bug Catches 1,000 Youth in Yemen

By Creative Associates International

June 25, 2012   |   0 comments

If it takes a catalytic moment to galvanize a large number of people, Yemen has been in the throes of that moment for some time. Though things did come to a head, at least figuratively, in February when the country held its presidential elections. Despite only one candidate on the ballot, Yemenis turned out to vote, begging the question, ‘why?’...
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Check it out!

By Creative Associates International

June 4, 2012   |   0 comments

An interview with Enrique Roig was featured on USAID's Impact Blog, highlighting the work of Creative's Alianza Joven Regional USAID-SICA program. Check it out here....
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Driving over Despair: Mobile Medical Teams Serve Yemenis on the Fringes

By Creative Associates International

May 23, 2012   |   0 comments

It was once a local schoolhouse, but now the only sound is the buzzing of flies circling lazily over prone bodies, offering bleak testimony to the malaise of homelessness. Eight families are squatting in this derelict school in Yemen’s Lahj governorate, refugees from the fighting that erupted between government forces and al-Qaida-backed militants in the neighboring governorate of Abyan....
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SNAPSHOT: KURMUK, SUDAN

By Creative Associates International

May 22, 2012   |   0 comments

The Health, Education and Reconciliation (HEAR) Sudan project focuses on promoting education, school-based health and strengthening school governance to increase the access of healthy girls and boys to quality education through community support and action. HEAR Sudan, funded by USAID, operates in the Three Areas of Sudan – Abyei, Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile – historically among the most neglected, disadvantaged and least developed parts of Sudan....
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Interning at Creative

By Corryn Freeman

May 16, 2012   |   0 comments

When I walked through the front doors of Creative Associates on February 3rd I couldn’t imagine how much my skewed perspective of international development would change....
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Five Ways to Avoid Gang Life

By Michael McCabe

May 10, 2012   |   0 comments

When Eduardo Tenorio was 8 years old, he was surrounded by violence, gangs, and drugs in Chorrillo, one of the most violent neighborhoods of Panama. He and his seven siblings tried to maintain their sense of resilience despite their parents’ separation and a rough environment. As a young person, he explains, he had only two positive outlets: soccer and school....
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