Press releases

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

Mara Bueno — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:50:00 GMT

· 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

Mara Bueno — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:42:00 GMT

· 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

Mara Bueno — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:41:00 GMT

· 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

Mara Bueno — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:30:00 GMT

· 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.

Intervida renews its ISO 9001:2000 certificate, which guarantees quality management of the organization

Mara Bueno — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:29:00 GMT

· An audit was conducted on the organization’s departments in order to confirm compliance with all the requisites established by the norm. · Obtaining the certificate means that the organization complies with these requisites and is actively involved in improving the outcome of its work. · Certifying the quality of the entity guarantees, at the same time, the quality of each and every one of the elements which comprise it. Submitting to this audit also speaks to the organization’s commitment to its continuous improvement.

The ‘Do It Yourself’ web has already received 500 t-shirt proposals

Mara Bueno — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:29:00 GMT

· To date, the web www.hazlotumismo.org has received over 20,000 visits. · From among the designs presented on the Web, users can vote and choose the t-shirt that will become the image for the campaign, getting actively involved in the fight against child labor. · The ‘Do it Yourself. Give Them a Voice 2.0’ aims to condemn the terrible problem of child labor exploitation and to raise social awareness of this violation of children’s rights.

Intervida Philippines sets up family gardens to combat the nutrition which affects one in three students

Mara Bueno — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:27:00 GMT

· Students in the schools where INTERVIDA is active in the archipelago are, on average, 40% underweight. · In addition to being prejudicial to their health, poor nutrition distracts these children, makes it difficult for them to concentrate, and even causes them to sleep in class. · INTERVIDA has set up intensive biological gardens in those homes with the fewest resources in order to improve the food security of the entire community.

Intervida alerts us to the unhealthy living conditions of more than 1 billion people around the world

Mara Bueno — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:26:00 GMT

· According to the United Nations, by the year 2020, 1.4 billion people will live in precarious settlements; that is, without water, sanitation, transportation, electricity or basic social services. · The precarious settlements lack basic sanitation systems and drinking water, as well as ventilation, and register high levels of contamination. All this, compounded by an inadequate diet, reduces inhabitants’ resistance to disease and increases health risks. · The INTERVIDA teams work to promote proper hygiene practices, an essential basis for reducing the rate of morbidity and mortality. These projects are developed in three main contexts: the school, the family and the community.

Over 80 Intervida collaborators visited the organization’s projects in 2007

Mara Bueno — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:22:00 GMT

· Many collaborators took advantage of summer vacations to travel to the countries and visit the projects personally. · Of the 81 visits made in 2007, more than a third of these (28) took place between June and September. · The collaborators can travel to visit the community where their sponsored child lives whenever they wish by sending the organization an email at viajes@intervida.org or by calling 902 19 19 19.

Intervida promotes use of the SALT system in the Philippines to reduce the risk of landslides and improve land fertility

Mara Bueno — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:21:00 GMT

· Thanks to the Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT) System, farmers increase crop production without using expensive and scarce chemical fertilizers. · The project also helps to combat the deforestation and soil erosion affecting many parts of Southeast Asia, and to preserve biodiversity. · In addition, the SALT method helps reduce the risk of flooding and landslides which affect the high land areas of the Philippines, especially in the rainy season which runs from June to November.