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  • Migration outlier: How Nicaragua escaped neighbors' deadly spiral

    August 28, 2014 |

    Reuters |

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    Response Location: Nicaragua, Managua, Managua

    Crushing poverty and extreme violence - fueled by drug trafficking and police corruption - are behind a mass migration of Central American children to the United States in recent months that has overwhelmed U.S. border resources and driven illegal immigration to the fore in U.S. congressional elections. But the United Nations has praised Nicaragua's security model, which includes social services to help youths in gangs find jobs as well as sport programs like little-league baseball teams.

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  • In Famine, Vouchers Can Be Tickets to Survival

    October 27, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Somalia

    World Concern, a Seattle-based Christian humanitarian group, provides people around the world with vouchers they can use in select markets, rather than the traditional emergency food aid of rice and other grains. In Dhobley, Somalia, the solution of vouchers quickens the process of receiving the food and contributes to the local economy.

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