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Wake Forest Students Help Children’s Education in Honduras

Students Helping Honduras (SHH), a newly chartered organization at Wake Forest University, plans to help destitute children in Honduras with a basic right: education. SHH is a chapter of a larger national organization begun in ...
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USAID and HED Promote Women’s Education in Paraguay

Recently, USAID (U.S. Agency for International Aid) and HED (Higher Education for Development) launched its new Women’s Leadership Program to promote higher education among women in four developing countries, including Paragu...
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Fundacion Paraguaya: An Important Step in the Right Direction

Founded in 1985 with a focus on micro-credit and entrepreneurship, Fundacion Paraguaya has today become an important player in the educational scene in Paraguay. Founded after the end of the Paraguayan dictatorship in 1989, Fun...
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Honduras: The HAVE Foundation Enables Education of Disadvantaged Children

The Agalta Valley, located in the mountains of eastern Honduras, has 50,000 inhabitants whose progress has been limited owing to their remote location. Impoverished, with very few opportunities for quality education and health ...
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Honduras: Children’s Book Sales Fund School Improvement

In 2000, teacher Patty Villanueva witnessed that the underprivileged  children around her in the small Honduran town of La Entrada were unable to go to school. As an educator herself, she therefore decided to make a difference...
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Lunches for Learning in Honduras

In Honduras, Lunches For Learning or L4L works actively to alleviate rural poverty. It is a non-profit organization that funds not only school supplies, construction of buildings, and community kitchens for mothers to cook, but...
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Uruguay Contests Racist Language in Dictionary

Racist expressions have historically characterized many Latin American societies. In Uruguay, some of these expressions hold permanence through the dictionary. Recently, Oscar Gomez, the Vice Minister of Culture and Education, ...
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In Paraguay, Global Infancia Provides Education and Rights to Children

Global Infancia, or Global Children, was founded in Paraguay in 1995 with the objective of providing children and adolescents their rights as subjects. In the aftermath of the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, Global Children...
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Bilingual Education in Honduras: The Success of Mayatan

While many schools in Honduras offer bilingual education, most of them are reserved for the elites of society. Mayatan is a rural non-profit K-12 school, founded by local mothers, that offers financial assistance to almost half...
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