February 2012
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Mayan Pyramid Fires Energy Beam Into the Sky or... →
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7 worst international aid ideas →
lysscglobal:
Maybe their hearts were in the right place. Maybe not. Either way, these are solid contenders for the title of “worst attempts at helping others since colonialism.”
1. One million t-shirts for Africa
2. TOMS Buy-One-Give-One
…dumping shoes in places where people might otherwise be employed to make them.
3. Machine gun preacher
Problems with Sam Childers, the machine gun...
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Guatemala launches Hunger Zero program to combat... →
Alex Diego was one of hundreds of malnourished Guatemalan children serviced by the nonprofit Casa Jackson Home for Malnourished Infants in Guatemala. He weighed 11 lbs. at 5 months.
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Guatemala — This week sees the launch of President Otto Pérez Molina’s Hambre Cero (Zero Hunger) program, which aims to reduce chronic malnutrition throughout Guatemala.
The program will be officially...
Educate Girls: Change the World →
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The Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the... →
Nancy Lublin — CEO, DoSomething.org selects Adam Braun — founder, Pencils of Promise Pencils of Promise is a non-profit which builds schools in Laos and Guatemala. It raises all its money online from kids in $25 (£16) increments. It’s the official charity of Justin Bieber, but in the end Adam Braun will be the bigger rock star.
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January 2012
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Can the Sandinistas fix education →
According to comparative statistics, Nicaragua’s 45% high school enrollment is among the lowest in the world. In the Western Hemisphere, only Guatemala is in worse shape. Nicaragua is also in the bottom third of the world’s low-income countries, with a dropout rate that puts the country on level with some of the most backwards nations on the planet.
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Pencils of Promise works in both Guatemala...
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Accused of Atrocities, Guatemala’s Ex-Dictator... →
Relatives of victims of Guatemala’s civil war listened to proceedings on Thursday.
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It came at the end of a daylong hearing in which prosecutors described mass killings, torture and rape in distant mountain villages almost 30 years ago and stressed that Mr. Ríos Montt, a former general, had full command over his troops and knowledge of their actions.
Nearly three hours into the...
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In Guatemala, Former Dictator Is Told to Appear in... →
MEXICO CITY — A Guatemalan judge has ordered a former military dictator, Efraín Ríos Montt, to appear in court on Thursday, the first step in a process that could lead to his being tried on genocide charges and to a reopening of the darkest chapter in Guatemala’s brutal 36-year civil war.
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“The real joy is in the journey, so give yourself the joy of making that journey....”
– Ralph Marston
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JOIN THE TEAM: GUATEMALA COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT... →
Who wants to join me and PoP in Guate?
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The Peace Corps kids are all right →
Peace Corps volunteers shouldn’t be pulled out of Central America.
My mother, reacting to the recent spate of alarmist headlines about “raging” violence and increased security measures affecting Peace Corps volunteers in Central America, has taken to calling me on a near-nightly basis. “Just needed to hear your voice,” she says to explain the call. “I’m...
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More Than 1 Billion People Are Hungry in the World →
lysscglobal:
For many in the West, poverty is almost synonymous with hunger. Indeed, the announcement by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 2009 that more than 1 billion people are suffering from hunger grabbed headlines in a way that any number of World Bank estimates of how many poor people live on less than a dollar a day never did.
But is it really true? Are there...
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December 2011
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