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  • Intervida provides Facebook users with the opportunity to join ‘Do it Yourself’, its campaign against child labor

    · Thanks to the application in FACEBOOK, visitors can present the campaign to their friends and acquaintances, inviting them to join this initiative, either by voting for their favorite t-shirt or creating their own design. · Among the online designs presented on the Web, visitors can vote and choose the t-shirt which will be the image of the campaign, thereby getting actively involved in the fight against child labor. · The ‘Do it Yourself. Give Them a Voice 2.0’ campaign aims to condemn the terrible problem of child labor exploitation and seeks to raise social awareness of this violation of children’s rights.

  • Over 16,000 youths in El Salvador and Nicaragua participate in Intervida’s sociocultural projects

    · Young people between 15 and 24 years old account for 18% of the world’s population and represent a huge potential for development. · Thousands of young people face adverse situations such as poverty, violence, illiteracy and the lack of opportunities. · In El Salvador and Nicaragua, 19% and 22% of the population, respectively, are young people. Poverty affects 43% of young Nicaraguans and 36% of young Salvadorans.

  • Intervida reminds us that 90% of indigenous panamanians live in poverty

    · There are more than 370 million indigenous people around the world who can be divided into at least 5,000 different groups. · In Panama, the ethnic majority is the Ngöbe Buglé, who live in the region of the same name; this region reports the lowest human development index in the country, along with the highest rate of illiteracy and the lowest average schooling at only 2.8 years. · For the last three years, INTERVIDA has supported the NGO Haren Alde with an educational project for 1,200 indigenous students who now enjoy new, more ample installations, school and reading materials and a publication in Ngöbere on the indigenous world view.

  • Jorge ‘Mágico’ González presents 6,000 books collected by Fundación Cádiz C.F. for Intervida’s cultural centers in El Salvador

    · The initiative which Fundación Cadiz, C.F. began last April to collaborate with INTERVIDA has reached its culmination. · The transportation company NACEX transported the books from Cadiz to Barcelona, where INTERVIDA’s headquarters are located; from there, the books were sent by boat to El Salvador. · INTERVIDA’s 14 Youth Centers in El Salvador support more than 30,000 adolescents and young people between 12 and 25 years old. These are spaces which allow them to access training, recreation and leisure activities, of which they are the protagonists.