Reference :
V-P-HN-E-00082
Date :
12/04/2012
Caption :
Tegucigalpa, neighborhood of San Francisco, office of health and street education of the "expanding opportunities project" of the Honduran Red Cross. A woman volunteer of the project.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
She is one of the 80 volunteer residents of the five neighborhood concerned ,who support the project. Thanks to the experience she acquired working in the projet, she found a job as a medical assistant.
In Honduras, social inequality, exclusion, absence of opportunities and a growing violence affect the population and particularly the children and the young people.
In response to this situation, the Honduran Red Cross launched the "expanding opportunities project" (Proyecto Ampliando Oportunidades (PAO)). The project strives to prevent violence by opening recreation and educational places, such as a games library, a computer school, a clinic for teenagers, a technical school, and by the integration of a network of institutions.
In December 2003, the Honduran Red Cross launched the Proyecto Ampliando Oportunidades for young people of the San Francisco neighborhood and other areas in the outskirts of Tegucigalpa. The pilot is supported by the Italian Red Cross and the Swiss Red Cross. For its part, the ICRC supports the project since 2006.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
5616x3744
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
