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Central America storm: The poorest are hit the hardest [1]
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Progressio development worker Maggie von Vogt has seen for herself the devastating impacts of the heavy rain that’s hit Central America this last week. And in a hard-hitting interview broadcast today…
Progressio, 18th October 2011
We need a new approach to development, says Carolina Amaya [2]
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Governments need to be aware that people are watching what they say and do about climate change – and that social movements are impatient for change, says Carolina Amaya from Progressio partner…
Progressio, 11th October 2011
Climate change: we in Central America will adapt – will you? [3]
Angel Ibarra presenting a talk on adaptation in the face of climate change [3]
Maggie von Vogt reports on the new focus of the Mesoamerican Campaign for Climate Justice and asks ‘Mesoamerican communities are willing to adapt in the face of climate change, are your communities…
maggievonvogt, 11th October 2011
Let’s not put all our eggs in the UNFCCC basket! [4]
Time for Climate Justice campaigners sit around the table [4]
The struggle for climate justice is in the balance. Maggie von Vogt reflects on why we’re going to need more eggs on more spoons to win this race… Things have been pretty discouraging in terms of…
maggievonvogt, 27th September 2011
Work experience: reflections from the London office [5]
Hannah Smith [5]
I have just completed a week of work experience at Progressio. As I am hoping to study Geography at university, I thought that working with an international development charity would give me an…
Progressio, 22nd August 2011
Progressio online: a younger view [6]
The Progressio website [6]
  I’m a secondary school student and I’d decided to do some work experience during my summer holidays; the charity sector seemed a good fit for me. For the last few days I’ve worked at the…
Progressio, 28th July 2011
El Salvador: teaching young people to care for the environment [7]
Kids on the beach at El Tamarindo, El Salvador [7]
I just got back from El Salvador where I went to see an environmental project in El Tamarindo, travelling with Maggie von Vogt, our development worker specialising in communications and advocacy….
Sarah Sandon, 22nd July 2011
Honduras: the muddy road to development [8]
Oxen pulling a truck up a dirt road in Honduras [8]
The visit to Nahuaterique with Digicel (read more in my previous blog, Honduras/El Salvador: The town that doesn’t exist) was followed by an attempt to visit a plot of land where the work we had been…
Sarah Sandon, 19th July 2011
Honduras/El Salvador: The town that doesn’t exist [9]
Children in Nahuaterique with placards calling for better education [9]
Yesterday I visited some Progressio partners in the place known as Nahuaterique in Honduras. Set high up in the mountains bordering El Salvador, the lush fields of maize, interspersed between a…
Sarah Sandon, 14th July 2011
Life after Logging [10]
Honduras. Local villager holding potted fruit plant [10]
Providing alternate livelihoods to those who used to make a living out of illegal logging and to the 80 families in the community of Plan Grande is the next step in ensuring their forests are…
Progressio, 11th July 2011