Pipeline - Support Specific FAVACA Projects
Mon, 11/10/2008 - 20:45 — Chris
FAVACA has had the privilege to support
Nicaragua Professional Exchange Program
View all of the Nicaraguans who in FAVACA’s Professional Exchange Program. Several of the participants have their own websites for you to view!
Exchange Participant's Website
Karim Zeledon Espinoza participated in FAVACA’s Professional Exchange Program in which she obtained training on e-commerce and how to make herself visible on the web. Espinoza was also able to link several other participants to her website and FAVACA encourages you to view her website. Please check out her page!
Nicaragua Exchange Program Comes to South Florida
FAVACA hosted 30 Nicaraguan participants for the a professional exchange program to empower young Nicaraguan entrepreneurs through creative thinking and improved business skills to help increase the revenue and productivity of their companies and be better able to better address residents' needs in their communities.
News
EVACUATION PLAN AND FIRE SAFETY FOCUS FOR CAP HAITIAN HOSPITAL
Servicing a large majority of the healthcare needs in the Northern part of Haiti, the Justinian Hospital in Cap Haitien, Haiti is a vital resource for providing much needed medical services for a large sector of the population.
4th ANNUAL POISON CONTROL CONFERENCE A SUCCESS IN JAMAICA
The Caribbean Poison Information Network (CARPIN) is an organization with the goal of increasing awareness throughout the Caribbean on poison and poison prevention strategies.
VISUALLY IMPAIRED RECIEVES COMPUTER TRAINING IN BARBADOS
The National Disabilities Unit works to facilitate, advocate, and promote the advancement and empowerment of persons with disabilities in order to ensure equal opportunities for integration and participation in all aspects of community living in Barbados.
NICARAGUAN NGO RECEIVES TRAINING ON BUSINESS PLANNING AND AGRICULTURAL MARKETS
Fundacion Fenix is a nongovernmental organization (NGO) located just outside Managua whose main objective is to develop activities and programs to prevent drug use amongst children and teenagers as well as the promotion of the integral development for vulnerable groups. Fundacion Fenix has been working to develop sources that can provide a secure form of funds for their outreach program.
DOCUMENTARY ON COLONIALISM CREATED IN GRENADA
Dr. Oliver Benoit, Dean for the School of Arts and Sciences at St. Georges University requested an expert to provide a lecture on the legacy of colonialism in Grenada to students in a Caribbean Identity and Caribbean Issues & Perspectives class. Veteran FAVACA volunteer Valerie Scoon, a faculty member at Florida State University's College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts and President and CEO of True Vision Productions, shared excerpts from a documentary she has been creating on colonialism from several previous FAVACA missions.
GANG VIOLENCE REDUCTION STRATEGY
FAVACA in conjunction with United States Agency for International Development's Community Empowerment and Transformation (COMET) project and the US Department of State's Narcotics Affairs Sections from Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic held a regional gang violence reduction strategy workshop and study tour May 5-7, 2009 at the Mayfair Resort and Spa in Miami, Florida.
FLORIDA NGO BROKERS SHORT-TERM AID
Julienne Gage, a freelance journalist and broadcast news producer based in Miami, published an article on the value FAVACA brings through short-term aid projects.
The year 1982 was a critical one for Florida. The economy had sagged as part of a national recession. As Florida continued to absorb the tens of thousands of Cuban refugees who had arrived from Mariel in 1980, new waves of refugees arrived on our shores to escape the political instability of a communist regime in Nicaragua and the poverty of Haiti. Many Floridians with skills, experience and, sometimes, roots in the Caribbean were eager to help.