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Campaign for “Love and Freedom” Changes Lives in Nicaragua

Surrounded by their audience in a spacious room, a dozen young people dressed in black perform flash theater: a boy hands a bouquet of flowers to a girl; two girls embrace while a boy looks on in disgust; a girl hands a condom ...
by Sara Van Note
 
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Grandma’s Games: New Ways to Share Old Ideas

Three years ago, USAID Primary Education Project (PEP) and Microsoft’s “Partners in Learning” came together to form a partnership to acknowledge and celebrate innovative uses of technology in schools and recognize and...
by Aldina Dzebo
 
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Girls Score “Goal against Machismo” in Nicaragua

On a dusty pitch under intense tropical sun, 22 adolescent girls battle for control of the soccer ball.  The team “Stars of Tomorrow” trades kicks with their rivals for today, the “Crazy Girls.”  The girls come to the...
by Sara Van Note
 
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Nansen Dialouge Center Sets a Precedent for Integrated Education in Macedonia

In 2007, Nansen Dialogue Center in Skopje, Macedonia, introduced a model for integrated and bilingual primary education aiming to ease the tensions between two ethnic groups – Albanians and Macedonians – and reinte...
by Aldina Dzebo
 
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Finding their Voices, Sharing their Wisdom: Kids Create Change In Nicaragua

This is the third of three posts about an organization in northern Nicaragua, CESESMA, and their model of youth empowerment, as well as their innovative new project on sex and sexuality.  Part I is here, and Part II is here. N...
by Sara Van Note
 
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Kids’ Survey on Sexuality Creates Change in Nicaragua

In my last post I wrote about an organization in northern Nicaragua, CESESMA, that uses a framework of human rights to address the needs of children and adolescents.  I described their use of consultorias, or investigative con...
by Sara Van Note
 
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Empowering Kids for Real Community Change in Nicaragua

What if we asked kids to teach us about the problems in their communities?  What if they gave recommendations for solving those problems?  And what if we gave them the tools to carry out change? An organization in northern Ni...
by Sara Van Note
 
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GOOD APPLE: Dinesh Shrestha

Good Apples spotlights people and organizations improving education in the developing world. 1. How long have you been working in education?  What made you start? I have been in the social development field since 1983 when I w...
by Travis Thompson
 
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GOOD APPLE: Bobbie Bigby

Good Apples spotlights people and organizations improving education in the developing world. 1. How long have you been working in education?  What made you start? One of my earliest memories as a young girl was following my mo...
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Poetry Out Loud! Nicaraguan Festival Inspires Young People

Kids were among the notables invited to the eighth International Festival of Poetry in Granada, Nicaragua.  A wide tent of colorful picture books and cushions enticed young readers to relax amid the bustle of the central plaza...
by Sara Van Note
 
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Teachbuzz: Lessons for Anywhere!

It’s a very exciting day for us. Teachbuzz, our resource site designed to provide teachers all over the world (even the poorest places on earth) with fantastic free lesson plans, is ready for the public! We’ve been ...
by Michael Jones
 
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GOOD APPLE: Kim Reuter

Good Apples spotlights people and organizations improving education in the developing world. 1.  How long have you been working in education?  What made you start? I started The Ladybug Project Inc. in the summer of 2010 whil...
by Travis Thompson
 
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GOOD APPLE: Kann Kall

Good Apples spotlights people and organizations improving education in the developing world. 1. How long have you been working in education?  What made you start? I have been associated with education development in Cambodia f...
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Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman to Battle Hunger in Africa

DC Entertainment has set some of its superheroes to battle hunger in the Horn of Africa. Warner Bros. (which owns DC) says it plans to do more than a superficial story line, but rather will aim to support three aid groups fight...
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GOOD APPLE: Andrea Messmer

Good Apples spotlights people and organizations improving education in the developing world.  1. How long have you been working in education?  What made you start? I’ve always had an interest in education, probably insp...
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GOOD APPLE: Coffee Camps in Nicaragua

Profesora Nohemi Orozco walks two hours up steep hills, through misty coffee plantations to teach her young students.  She shares her classroom, a two-sided shelter attached to the clapboard rooms that house migrant coffee wor...
by Sara Van Note
 
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GOOD APPLE: Emily Hirsch

Good Apples spotlights people and organizations improving education in the developing world. 1. How long have you been working in education?  What made you start? I was a music teacher in the States for four years and I have b...
by Travis Thompson
 
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GOOD APPLE: SchoolBOX

In 2006, Tom Affleck, president and founder of the Canadian organization SchoolBOX, found himself at a low point in his life. He was disillusioned with previous work experiences and was aiming for a more fulfilling purpose in ...
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GOOD APPLE: Diane Ayres

Good Apples spotlights people and organizations improving education in the developing world. 1. How long have you been working in education?  What made you start? I’ve been working in education for the past 10 years but ...
by Travis Thompson
 
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GOOD APPLE: Lacie Marie

Good Apples spotlights people and organizations improving education in the developing world. 1. How long have you been working in education?  What made you start? One morning back in November 2010, I was eating breakfast at a ...
by Travis Thompson
 
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It Takes One to Duolingo

A new crowdsourced language learning program from Carnegie Melon computer science professor Luis von Ahn is about to take off, and it may be the beginning of another strong chapter in open courseware. Duolingo allows users to l...
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United Nations, BBC Launch Campaign Aimed at Young Cambodians

The United Nations Development Programme and BBC World Service Trust are rolling out a massive multimedia project to get young Cambodians involved in civic life.  Starting January 15 the campaign called Loy9 will launch on TV,...
by Travis Thompson
 
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Changing the World With Skateboards

Girls and boys in Phnom Penh, Cambodia now have the opportunity to take part in a skateboarding program that’s not only fun, but aims to be a tool for social rehabilitation and empowerment. Cambodia is only the second cou...
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UNESCO Creates Open Access Portal, Empowers Science

UNESCO has launched a Global Open Access Portal designed to update users on the status of the open access movement throughout the world. The open access movement works to provide free scholarly information on the internet rathe...
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Dorms Give Girls Power in Morocco

Thanks to Dar Taliba, 16,700 girls from isolated Moroccan villages can finally go to school. Dar Taliba (an Arabic term that means ‘the house of the girl students’) is a series of more than 300 boarding houses in Mo...
by Hafsa Oubou
 
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Kids Are Key to Ending Wild Animal Trafficking in Nicaragua

When teacher Christian Berrios asks classrooms of Nicaraguan schoolchildren how many have wild animals as pets, one-half to two-thirds of the students raise their hands.  Parrots and parakeets, raccoons, squirrels, and even de...
by Sara Van Note
 
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Bottle Caps, Benches, and Birds: Recycled Art in Nicaragua

In an abandoned urban plot in the center of León, Nicaragua, a group of young international and local volunteers, community members, and high school students from SONATI are creating a giant sculpted snake out of tires and tra...
by Sara Van Note
 
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Campaign Aims to Get Kids Off Streets of Cambodia

This is one of the posters for a new campaign set to launch across Cambodia next week.  Volunteers all over Cambodia have been collaborating to create the Think Twice! campaign which aims to highlight the importance of support...
by Travis Thompson
 
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Kids Train to Be Environmental Leaders in Nicaragua

Each Tuesday, 15 Nicaraguan fifth graders in my class pass a high-five around a circle, write comics, and sing songs and play games in English.  They’re members of an environmental leadership group formed by the organization...
by Sara Van Note
 
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Teach for Bulgaria Takes Off

Teach for Bulgaria is an initiative that aims to provide better education in troubled schools and poor communities throughout the eastern European nation.  Organizers search for skilled and talented young university grads to s...
by Travis Thompson
 
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