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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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Nicaraguan NGO’s Promote Preschool

During the Global Action Week for Education Nicaraguan NGO’s took the opportunity to call for more support for preschools. As reported in El Nuevo Diario, the president of the Forum for Education and Human Development Initiat...
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Girls battle for the soccer ball in Bocana de Paiwas, Nicaragua

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...
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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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