LatinaLista — Mentoring is heralded as a way to give everyone, from young people to entrepreneurs, a leg up when pursuing their dreams. There are non-profits specifically built around the concept of mentoring at-risk kids but for how long…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Guardian – Non-Profit Jiu Jitsu & Boxing for Kids It's a harsh reality that 11.3 million children have to take care of themselves after the school day ends. Not surprisingly, the peak hours for juvenile crime…
By Aaron de Leon LatinaLista For Leah Penniman and Jonah Vitale-Wolff, Soul Fire Farm is more than just another farming project trying to change the world one leafy kale plant at a time. It’s a project rooted directly from…
By Meredith Rosenberg Juvenile Justice Information Exchange NEW YORK — On a sunny school day last year, the last thing 20 teenagers seemed interested in was a yoga class. Most hadn’t even bothered changing out of their jeans, leather…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Escalando Fronteras: Climbing Beyond Cartels Help Mexico’s youth CLIMB beyond drugs, gangs, and drug cartels and on to a more promising future. Imagine never having been told ‘You can do it. You can do whatever you…
By Daniel Higa Alquicira Infosurhoy.com MEXICO CITY – Since he was a child, Luis Alberto Ramos Hernández dreamed of singing and dancing on the world’s biggest stages. But coming from a low-income family in the Colonia Anáhuac of the…
LatinaLista — The way Robert Renteria’s life was going as a kid — poverty, domestic violence, drugs, gangs — it wasn’t surprising that people thought Renteria had a one-way ticket to nowhere. Robert Renteria Yet, he surprised everyone by…
