LatinaLista — Human trafficking is the pipeline for today’s slave trade. Through movies, the public has learned that human trafficking is more than just sexual exploitation of women and young girls. It also involves the forced labor, with no or little pay, and always accompanied by abusive treatment of men, women and children in occupations [...]
Bilingual campaign wants mothers to think twice about who cares for their children
LatinaLista — Between 2001-2007, over 10,000 children died from child abuse or neglect, according to an October 2009 report titled “We can do better: Child Abuse and Neglect Deaths in America” issued by the Every Child Matters Education Fund. The authors of the report point out that it doesn’t matter how the fatal abuse occurred but [...]
Arizona school districts struggle to keep superintendents
By MELANIE KISER Cronkite News Service PHOENIX — When Elizabeth Celania-Fagen signed on as the superintendent of Arizona’s second-largest school district in 2008, she said she planned to raise her family in Tucson and serve at least five to 10 years. But this April, the youngest and highest-paid school chief in Arizona announced she was [...]
Spotlight Non-profit: Creating a home and a future for abandoned teens
LatinaLista — There were over 500,000 children in the foster care system in 2006, according to the most recent statistics. Forty-six percent of these children were in non-relative foster family homes. In 2006, 289,000 children exited the foster care system. While 53 percent of the children were reunited with family or a caregiver, 9 percent [...]
T-shirt company asks Brazil’s World Cup supporters to buy shirts benefitting Brazil’s street kids
LatinaLista — The 2010 FIFA World Cup Soccer matches are really starting to heat up as the quarterfinals begin. For fans that means going all-out to show their support. The most popular way for fans to support their teams is by wearing t-shirts sporting the team’s colors. Well, one clothing company is asking Brazilian supporters [...]
New poll shows majority of American public don’t want to see undocumented youth deported
LatinaLista — As much as the proponents of rounding up undocumented immigrants and sending them back across the border hate it, the majority of Americans have made it a point to publicly support one type of undocumented immigrant — the children. Newly released bipartisan poll about the DREAM Act. We have seen that whenever a [...]
