COLOMBIA: Putting Faith in Motion

Colombia, Mayo 2010.- Marina, 35, and Edgar, 32, like to be persistent in all what they do. Sometimes, they work up to 12 hours a day in the workshop they installed in their home where they manufacture bags...

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COLOMBIA: Bonds of Solidarity

Colombia, Mayo 2010.- At sunset, the intense sun of Nueva Esperanza takes a break and lets a gentle breeze come. About 6 p.m., a group of 10 of children leave their houses to meet Mrs. Gladis, the neighbor who teaches them to dance Porro, a typical rhythm of the Colombian Caribbean...

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COLOMBIA: Youths Building Peace

Colombia, Mayo 2010.- “Hi! I am Bony. I study bacteriology and I have been a Peace Builder with my body, soul and heart since 10 years ago...

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Special Project providing assistance to farmers from Telica, Nicaragua

San Jacinto is located in the municipality of Telica, at about 115 kilometers from Managua, Capital of Nicaragua. In one of the homes lives Martha Petrona Pereira, who is a woman that has worked very hard, and she shows on her face. She is 50 years old, and she has lived in San Jacinto for twenty four years.

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Sewing machines that make dreams come true

Six years ago a group of people from the San Fernando parish founded the Artisans Association in order to increase their families’ incomes, and have a better life quality for their children.

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Teenagers go into the world of radio communication

A group of ten teenagers are the leaders of “La Conchita”, a radio program that discusses issues of rights and duties of boys, girls, and adolescents. The name of the program aims at highlighting the community identity of the origin of the announcers and commentators. These people are originally from the communities Rodeo, Panamá, San Juan 19 de Julio, and Las Gradas. These communities are located in the municipality of La Concepcion, Masaya.

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Making changes in their families

Just a few months ago, in Poma community, located at about 35 kilometers to the south of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, a group of women got organized, and they were motivated to learn how to make bread.

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The world of Berta: a woman’s view facing the food crisis in Chile

Berta is an attractive 41 year old women, who is struggling so that “My children can make it in life. I want them to be better that me, more than me”. After 20 years of marriage she separated 4 years ago to go into a world she did not know.

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Dreams of Love

Thanks to enterprising mothers, there is a Special Facility or School for handicapped children

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Quality fresh cheese in the community of Chimborazo

“El Nevadito” cheese factory is located in the community of Chimborazo, 201 kilometers south from the capital city of Quito. It was built 12 years ago thanks to the financial and technical support of World Vision.

Maria Isabel Valarezo | See details »    Comment this story  

Excellent Example

When Engracia Brenes speaks it is impossible not to pay attention to her. This big-build woman with big hands and brown skin conveys a comforting confidence that is only perceived when someone controls one’s life. But she learned this recently.

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Youths are training their peers to help to diminish statistical figures

One time was enough for Meyling to understand the harsh reality that sex without protection has serious consequences. She got pregnant in her first sexual relationship. When she was in the hospital she was found to live with HIV infection. Just 15 years old and with this terrifying diagnosis, she "had no idea of what this meant," and it was hard for her to learn about it later.

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Sponsor\\\\\\\'s letters are Roxana\\\\\\\'s treasures

Hidden inside a small wooden box in Roxana Marlene Ramos’ home in the Los Manantiales Area Development Programme (ADP) in El Salvador, are treasures from 2,100 miles away. Guarded by an army of stuffed animals, the box contains the many letters, photos and gifts from the 14-year-old’s sponsor in Canada.

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Families from Villa Victoria Visit their Flooded Community

After two weeks, community leaders from Villa Victoria, 17 km from the city of Beni, one of the areas most affected by the La Niña phenomenon in Bolivia, travelled by boat to visit their homes and gather any belongings that would be useful to them at the refugee camp.

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Community builds school in temporary housing camp in Trinidad, Bolivia

At 42, Hermenegildo, the mayor of Puerto Geraldas, has had to face natural disasters brought forth by the phenomena of El Niño in 2007 and La Niña this year

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The Lack of Food Is Still Affecting Trinidad’s Camps

Mateo Muiba, together with his five children and wife, left their home located in Santa Rosita a month ago. They did not wait the water to flood their home to take their belongings to the road. Now, they live in a tent in the way to Varador, 30 minutes away from the City of Trinidad, in the Department of Beni.

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More than 180 Children in Temporary Shelters in Chetequije

In the community of Chetequije in the municipality of Trinidad located in Beni, the department most affected by the La Niña phenomenon in Bolivia, more than 180 children are housed along with their families in temporary housing in a camp set-up by World Vision in response to the emergency.

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Children from Trinidad haven’t returned to school yet

Three days after the school year 2008 already started in Bolivia, the children of Trinidad keep prolonging their vacations because of the climatic phenomenon “La Niña”, that flooded their schools, as well as their neighborhoods and their houses, or because the first ones ended up as shelters for the affected.

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Virtual school arrives in the countryside

"I left school a long time ago because it was so far from home, but now with the virtual school in the ADP, I will become a graduate," says Mercedes Yaguachi who lives in one of the partner communities of the Area Development Program (ADP) UOCIC (Unión de Organizaciones Campesinas Intercomunales), located in Chimborazo province, 135 kilometres south of the capital Quito.

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In-between playing with friends and protecting their animals

“This year I should be attending the third grade of elementary school, but we can’t go back to school because of the waters, so we stay playing and watching for our animals”, comments Jose of seven years, affected by the floods caused by the climatic phenomenon “La Niña” in the communities of Los Puentes and now located at the shelter of La Plataforma.

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Gladys builds her tent twice

On the early morning of 11th of january, on the road to Puerto Varador close to Trinidad, the families living in temporary tents where fearing to experience again the loss of their belongings. Rain hadn’t stopped for all night.

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Food delivery for more than 4 000 families in Trinidad, Bolivia

“The floods destroyed most of ore crops, the little food we could rescue is almost finished and we don’t have any other resource to feed ourselves” says Ernesto Ceballos, and affected farmer and also the president of the communitarian organization of Villa Victoria, while he receives the food delivered by World Vision Bolivia in the Fair Camp on saturday.

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Because of the flooding, the ecological balance is breaking

Raquel was one of the persons that had no intention to abandon her house at Los Puentes, until one morning she woke up scared because of a huge snake that was searching refuge from the water and who was on a chair by her bed, “When I saw the sicuri (big size boa) I told my children , go directly the wooden columns at La Plataforma (The Platform). It is very dangerous to stay at this place, we tried to convince the families that are still here but we couldn’t do otherwise.” tells the old woman.

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The most affected by water contagious diseases are children

Of all the affected people from the phenomenon “La Niña” children are suffering the most by water’s contagious diseases, because they are more exposed to the water in their houses, parks and streets and also because they have no other recreational activity than to play with the contaminated water.

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Highway Neighborhoods

Neighborhoods in the outskirts of Trinidad have moved to roads connecting this city with the Department of Santa Cruz and other cities of the Department of Beni, due to the floods that caused isolation and led to the creation of a series of neighborhoods next to highways. These neighborhoods, created with temporary shelters, have been provided with basic services, medical stands, and water transportation used to take victims back to their houses surrounded by floods caused by the La Niña weather phenomenon.

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I dreamed about a school in my community

n San Pio Pietrelcine community, about 115 kilometres from the capital, in the municipality of Telica lives Teresa Paiz Mendez, a 41-year-old woman and teacher who had dreams for children of her community.

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Rudy, the pride to be a Mayan

Mountains and cold weather surrounds the life of Rudy, an indigenous ten-year-old child; his life, like many other indigenous children in Guatemala, has been one of poverty and inequality. His community, located more than 300 kms away from Guatemala's capital in the northwest of the country is considered the land of the Mayan group Mam.

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