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Young people act out a flash-theater scene

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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Ed Now

Teachers Strike in El Salvador to Protest Pay

Nearly 800,000 students were affected by a two-day nationwide teacher strike in El Salvador.  Members of several national unions carried out a work stoppage in protest of teacher pay. One union abstained from striking, citing ...
by Sara Van Note
 
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Ed Now
Students in rural Nicaragua

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...
by Sara Van Note
 
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Girl Power
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...
by Sara Van Note
 
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Ed Tips
Children at a rural school in coffee country, Nicaragua

What Rights do Kids Have?

I’ve been learning about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and have been inspired to apply it to my thinking about education. Working in Nicaragua, I’ve often been frustrated that the teaching of skills or subjec...
by Sara Van Note
 
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