Central America: USAID Youth Alliance-supported Organization Wins Major Foundation Grant
February 23, 2011
Central America: USAID Youth Alliance-supported Organization Wins Major Foundation Grant A Guatemalan organization, Alianza Joven, was selected for a $300,000 “Helping Those Who Help” grant by the prestigious Guatemala-based Gutierrez Foundation. Alianza Joven’s proposal stood out from among hundreds of... Read MoreDavid Barth, the director of USAID’s Office of Education, speaks with Creative Times about Technology and Education
December 3, 2010
David Barth the director of USAID’s Office of Education, speaks with Creative Times about Technology and Education Q: What benefits and caveats do you see with regard to the use of computers and information technology in educational reform and in... Read MoreCENTRAL AMERICA: Restorative Juvenile Justice and a Region’s Important Choices
November 29, 2010
CENTRAL AMERICA: Restorative Juvenile Justice and a Region’s Important Choices Orietta Zumbado and Victor Herrero discuss juvenile justice. The punitive approach to justice long applied to juvenile offenders in many Central American countries calls for zero tolerance. Simply put, this... Read MoreGangs in Central America’s Barrios: Children without Childhoods
June 1, 2010
Some barrios in El Salvador and Honduras are incongruously known by such names as “Divine Paradise” or “Heaven’s Field.” If you walk down the paved streets of of Mejicanos, Apopa or Soyapango in El Salvador or Nueva Suyapa, Rivera Hernández or López Arellano in Honduras you will see people have water and electricity....Read More