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- Basic learning needs of young people and adults in Latin America
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The author provides a summary of important lessons learned from adult educational activities and research in Latin America. Basic learning skills are defined as the skills needed in order to provide for ones basic needs, in turn based on the current under ...
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- A meeting about women and reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean
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The author reports on the Latin America and Caribbean Women and Health Network of Isis International's working meeting in October 1991, held in Santiago, Chile. The meeting produced guidelines for the women's health movement on abortion, AIDS, teenage pre ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Letter from Honduras, 5 November 1998
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The author wrote this open letter to her friends in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Mitch, from the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa. She describes the devastation, how nearby countries have sent assistance, and her fears for the future. ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- A peasant farmers' literacy programme
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Literacy gives people a framework for critical thinking and informed action. A number of peasant farmers' organisations have developed in the wake of economic restructuring in Honduras, Central America. The authors describe and assess the Literacy Program ...
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- Endangering women's health for profit: health and safety in Mexico's maquilodoras
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Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was agreed, thousands of maquiladoras (assembly plants) have sprung up along the Mexican side of the Mexico/US border. Around a million workers are subject to violations of their human, labour, and hea ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Working with streetchildren
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In September 1990 we became involved with the Centre for the Defence of the Child (CDM) in Brazil, with a view to participating in a survey into the lives of streetchildren that was being conducted by the group. The CDM is a branch of its parent organisat ...
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- Did the project fail? A community perspective on a participatory primary health care project in Ecuador
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This article examines a UNICEF/Ministry of Health primary health care programme in Ecuador from a community perspective. It contributes to the debate concerning the way in which the relative `success' or `failure' of participatory projects is measured. It ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- An education programme for peasant women in Honduras
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This paper introduces the PAEM, a programme working with Christian women in the rural parishes of Santa Barbara, Colon, Comayagua, Intibuca, and Lempira, all departments of Honduras. PAEM has a number of overall aims, which include to bringing together th ...
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- El empoderamiento de las familias como alternativa para la adopción temporal de niños de la calle en Brasil
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Actualmente, la metodología de trabajo con niños de la calle ha evolucionado desde la dependencia en la asistencia hacia el protagonismo juvenil, pero aun así muchas organizaciones no han previsto incorporar a las familias de los niños en sus actividades. ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Community-based rehabilitation and development: disabled children in Guyana
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This article examines the challenge facing the rehabilitation of disabled persons, particularly children, as we approach the end of the twentieth century. The potential of a community-based model of rehabilitation is considered in the light of experience ...
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