Exciting Advances in Mobile

By Jacqui Deelstra

October 19, 2012   |   0 comments

In International Development the letter “m,” short for “mobile,” has been popping up everywhere. There is mEducation, mAgriculture, and mHealth, just to name a few. Creative has also recognized the important role that mobile phones can play in development by connecting people to important information and resources that can dramatically improve their economic opportunities and allow them to be more active, knowledgeable and empowered citizens....
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Youth Movement Reaches Belize!

By Creative Associates International

October 15, 2012   |   0 comments

Creative Associates International, through its USAID/SICA Regional Youth Alliance Program, and two representatives from the Youth Movement Against Violence from Guatemala and Panama were in Belize City this past weekend with Belizean youth to establish the Youth Movement Chapter in that country and to ask government agencies to support the national Youth Movement....
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Securing the Arab Spring’s Elections

By Patrick W. Quirk

October 10, 2012   |   0 comments

Over the last year in what has been termed the “Arab Spring,” the collapse of long-standing regimes in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt and Libya has created space for political contestation that citizens in these countries had never before experienced...
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Making Ends Meet in a Rapidly Changing World

By Thoric Cederström

September 26, 2012   |   0 comments

Mud and muck are flying in the US Presidential campaign. Both parties made a lot of noise at their political conventions about the state of the economy and the plight of working Americans....
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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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