Ashoka Fellows - México y Centroamérica

Mexico

Áreas de Trabajo / Field of Work: Learning/Education
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Mario Rocha, working in Mexico's southern state of Michoacan, is bringing hands-on science and appropriate technology to young people and neighborhood groups. An annual "Festival of New Men," soon to be supplemented by a year-round House of Science, sparks interest, which he then encourages with supporting information and volunteers.

Mexico

Áreas de Trabajo / Field of Work: Learning/Education

Victor Rodríguez Ugalde spearheads a rapidly growing movement which is implementing new strategies to educate poor students about nutrition.

Mexico

Áreas de Trabajo / Field of Work: Human Rights

Pablo Romo’s Observatory for Social Conflict contributes to the peace process in Mexico by offering a thorough and timely understanding of conflicts and the ability to foresee and positively transform conflicts when they occur.  

Mexico

Áreas de Trabajo / Field of Work: Health

As AIDS spreads in Mexico, Irma Rosado is developing the first complete program of care. Working initially in a four million person slum area, she is pioneering alternative work to provide income for those who have lost their jobs, day care for the seriously ill and, ultimately, hospices for the victims' final days of life.

Mexico

Áreas de Trabajo / Field of Work: Civic Engagement

Luz Rosales is spearheading the promotion of a citizen culture based on a deep, comprehensive sense of citizen involvement at every level of political life.

Mexico

Áreas de Trabajo / Field of Work: Environment
Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda IAP

As Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo brings "sustainable development" to the rugged Sierra Gorda bioregion of Central Mexico, she is demonstrating a broad range of advocacy, public education and income-generation approaches and how, together, they can produce a broad mass movement.

Mexico

Áreas de Trabajo / Field of Work: Human Rights

Atala Ruiz is facilitating the placement of unwanted and abused children in new families by creating an alternative process for adoption in Mexico.

Mexico

Áreas de Trabajo / Field of Work: Environment

Alberto Ruz promotes sustainable and ecologically sound community development in small- and medium-sized towns by organizing and leading a caravan of educators and facilitators throughout Latin America.

Mexico

Áreas de Trabajo / Field of Work: Human Rights
CELIAC

Jesus Salinas, a linguist and Nahnu Indian from the state of Hidalgo, is using computers to help Indians create a written tradition out of their oral languages, thereby preserving and enriching their indigenous language and culture and enriching their children's education.

Mexico

Áreas de Trabajo / Field of Work: Learning/Education
Mexcalibur

Helen Samuels is helping create an international network that gives disenfranchised youth, including gang members, the opportunity to create employment opportunities, gain visibility and respect, and improve their communities.