222 Results Are Tagged With "Western Hemisphere"

LGBT Youth, Let?s Talk!

Chile
Human Rights and Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Populations
Chile has suicide rates, 4 times higher than the rest of the continent. Its rates are the second highest in the world. Suicide is the second reason of children's mortality between 10-19 years old in the country. LGBT youth are a high risk group for suicide because of high depression and anxiety rates due to the lack of, or complete absence of family and school support, social rejection and invisibilization. The project is an extension of an ongoing effort of TODO MEJORA and the two main goals are to prevent LGBT youth suicide, homo and transphobic bullying and self-harm in Latin America and offer educational and life-saving resources.It includes a virtual support system to help children face life threatening experiences through Facebook messaging and SOS/only emergency texts messages (Let’s Talk); social monitoring/child participation platform (U-Report , UNICEF) to include the opinions of young people as recommendations to improve program and policies that affect them.

Journalism for Diversity, LGBT News Agency

Colombia
Human Rights and Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Populations
Information is a public resource and media have been the channels through which information has traditionally circulated. Thus media has been in charge of creating content necessary to build up imaginaries, states of mind and moral standing points present in society. This makes us reflect the responsibility we have as citizens of using properly this common resource, turning media into platforms that gather the most varied viewpoints and discourses, so we all can access more complete and complementary perspectives on our reality.Homophobia and discrimination come from the lack of awareness and the bad treatment of the information when media covers information about sexually diverse communities, i.e. those integrated by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals. As members of this community, we would like to contribute to enrich public opinion's knowledge regarding LGBT topics, becoming in social actors that would deliver faithful information regarding this matters.

Project Youth Justice: Teen Court

Bahamas, The
Human Rights and Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Populations
Between the years 2008 to 2009, the number of juveniles charged before the courts with crimes against the person rose by 79.6% with the youngest accused in 2008 being 12 years and 9 years old in 2009. The Bahamas has one of the lowest ages of criminal responsibility in the region where children as young as 10 years old can be charged as an adult or as a juvenile before a criminal court. A 2012 Inmate Perception Study reported that 49% of the inmates in The Bahamas's prison system are young people under age 30 and that 44% of them committed their first crime as juveniles. Whilst the Child Protection Act (2007) attempts to deal with juvenile offenders by establishing a juvenile court, our challenge remains that the current criminal justice system (inclusive of the Juvenile Court) does not incorporate any reconciliation, diversion or disposition programs for a certain class of juvenile offenders over detention as a method of dealing with child offenders.

Female Startup Founders Legal Clinic

Argentina (Chile)
Entrepreneurship and Youth Employment
The Female Founders Legal Clinic (FFLC) addresses a crucial problem with LatAm entrepreneurship: the lack of legal resources and support for women startup founders and, more broadly, for women in tech. While more women are now founding startups in the region, deep structural and cultural hurdles remain, especially in LatAm, where entrepreneurship has traditionally been led by men. Starting a company or jumping into the tech world entails multiple legal risks and challenges for anyone--and for women, this can be especially daunting when the obstacles add up to the already unfavorable conditions. Our clinic, organized by practicing attorneys and involving law students, aims at facilitating the legal aspects of women start-ups, ranging from incorporation, IP, and standard contracts, to bringing legal assistance and raising awareness on directly gender-related issues, such as including and promoting women in the workspace, and dealing with sexism and sexual harassment.

PHOTO-SENSES, GLANCES THAT FEEL

Ecuador
Human Rights and Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Populations
In august 2015, the Ministry of Public Health in Ecuador registered 401.553 Ecuadorians with legally recognized disabilities, 48% of them responded to visual disability. Unfortunately, less than 10% of such population has been included in educative or artistic activities.The Ecuadorian society has created a misleading opinion, and sometimes discriminative, around the conception of disability, which had limited the access to social equity of our entire nation. Therefore, our proposal aims to generate social inclusion, active participation and social empowerment through artistic education in photography for people with visual disability. In that way, the knowledge imparted will potentiate all the sensory activity of the participants in order to appreciate photography from a non-conventional perspective. The proposal also encourages the spreading of a message of inclusion within the community based on coexistence and the correct understanding of disability.

Tegus Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Ignite

Honduras
Entrepreneurship and Youth Employment
In all of Honduras, not one city counts with an ecosystem that effectively supports and encourages entrepreneurship. The widespread red tape in the public sector is a burden to companies of all sizes. Tegucigalpa’s (Tegus) municipality is no exception: it lacks a dynamic and supportive role towards entrepreneurs. Micro, Small & Medium enterprises (MSMEs) spend more time with formalities than they should. This discourages micro-entrepreneurs to leave the informal economy as they prefer to focus on their day-to-day survival rather than deal with bureaucracy. Our aim is to open a dialog between: 1) the city’s municipal authorities; 2) professional services providers (accountants & lawyers who face the city’s rules on a daily basis and can pinpoint issues and propose desired improvements); and 3) the city’s “techies”, able to focus on system improvements that would make life easier to more than 26,000 existing firms & future ones.

STAR Panama

Panama
Empowering Women and Girls
At a young age, girls are discouraged from pursuing math, science, and engineering. According to UN, 13.5% of girls pursue engineering degrees and only 1.5% pursue science degrees. Achieving a balance at the workforce is critical for solving society’s issues.Student-Teacher and Research Engineer/Scientist (STAR) by IEEE’s Women in Engineering (WIE) is an educational outreach program developed to address this growing concern. In 2015, Panama’s WIE group created a pilot for STAR by applying an entrepreneurial approach to develop a sustainable program that will consistently grow annually. We recruited over 50 volunteers with diverse backgrounds to help structure, launch and execute STAR. We tackled this challenge the same the way we would create a startup company; from defining primary service, designing a business model, and planning marketing strategy to staffing and executing the program. Last year, we delivered fun science experiments to over 200 children.

My Exchanges Journey

Fulbright alumna Parveen Elias shares her journey from Bangladeshi academia to her exchange in the U.S. to her working with the Embassy back in her home country.

J?venes Pioneros

El Salvador
Entrepreneurship and Youth Employment
We pursue the start of an entrepreneurial culture among young students from the public education system in San Salvador. Through the program, students will acquire one of the most essential skills in the 21st century marketplace: entrepreneurship. Acquiring this skill teaches them about creativity, teamwork, responsibility, time management, and problem-solving – to name a few.The Index of Systemic Conditions for Dynamic Entrepreneurship shows that entrepreneurship education and support in Latin America has risen over the past few years. However, the report Latin American Entrepreneurs: Many Firms but Little Innovation states that the region suffers from an innovation gap in business which explains part of the region’s underperformance.We are closing the gap between the current public education curriculum by teaching students to think outside of the box and look at their surroundings to identify problems and come up with solutions through entrepreneurial action.

Model for Education and Business in Digital Center

Mexico
Access to Education
Federal Government programs installed through years and across M?xico, several Digital Community Centers [DCC]. These centers are classified as follows: Modules for Digital Service [MSD], Digital Community Centers [CCD]), and Centers of Community Learning [CCA]). These centers are located at rural and marginalized localities and they should provide technological infrastructure, as well as Internet access points for free to peopleAccording to official statistics, there are 65,150 DCC installed in the country, of which 956 are in the state of Guerrero and 240 are CCA. We have confirmed that only 32 CCA in the state of Guerrero are on minimum operating conditions. The rest of CCA are under severe bad conditions. Government never considered a plan for support, development and survival of these DCC, and there was never a plan for professionalization and education of people involved in its administration, beyond those provided as is, without commitment by the federal government for follow-up

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