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Alliance WINDS OF CHANGE Canadá & RJI

Reto Juvenil Internacional is a leading non-profit association that implements development initiatives in 18 countries for more than 30 years.

In collaboration with Winds of Change created with the mission to link engineering students with NGO partners and impoverished communities throughout Central America to design and build sustainable solutions to improve the lives of these communities:

We Help * We Create * We Cooperate * We Contribute with future professional success exposing engineering students to such projects enables them to gain perspective on the impact they can have on remote communities and gain real-world engineering experience in the field.

These collaborative efforts seem like a great and easy idea on the surface, but it is challenging to achieve the desired community improvements for successful rural revitalization, collaborations and provide solutions of their use in practice. The component for our successful collaborations is—Work and grows together by understanding the cultural context, the reality, the main needs, developing leadership roles throughout the collaborative process with locals, to find opportunities for innovation, long-term success and independence: 

  • An indigenous community without electricity since their inception 75 years ago is lighting today
  • An Indigenous school today is accessing computers and charging cell phone to access emergency services
  • Primary School Students accessing internet by a satellite in a remote area of Costa Rica
  • Last year Indigenous Primary School students attended the first virtual meeting
  • More than 200 hundred children living in extreme poverty continue having a daily meal
  • Organized groups and students can access after dark a community center in Costa Rica and Nicaragua to study and bring ideas to improve their lives thanks to a Solar Energy Panels that provides light.
  • Extreme Poor families can charge the electronics for free in remote area of Costa Rica and Nicaragua
  • Organized women groups can develop entrepreneurship projects to sell food and raise funds using a solar stove in Nicaragua

Today and together we are supporting future enginner professional and countries like Nicaragua, the second poorest country in the Americas, only surpassed by Haiti. The people of one community in the Managua area are called the "dirty or forgotten people." They are marginalized and excluded from the central community, but they remain hopeful for a better life despite these conditions.

 

Testimonial

  • Thank you so much for this opportunity to intern for and work for RJI. I had a wonderful time learning from you. Thank you for this amazing experience in the beautiful Costa Rica!


    Alice Liao, Michigan University.

  • RJI`s list of achievements is long and their impact within the youth and development arena in Central America is extensive.


    Sandra Eastwood, International Programs Manager, Youth Challenge Australia.-

  • We believe in the mission of Reto Juvenil. We support the work of Reto Juvenil. We will partner with Reto Juvenil. We are in solidarity with Reto Juvenil to make the world a better place.


    Virginia S. Williams, Associate Professor of History, Winthrop University, EEUU.

  • Earth Charter International has been extremely happy with RJI’s level of commitment to promote sustainability issues in their work in Central America. They put the Earth Charter comprehensively in action!


    Jaana Laitinen, International Youth Facilitator, Earth Charter International

  • RJI is a great agency to work with. This organization lives its mission, following its core values with great tenacity


    Bob Miller, Profesor of Social Work, UMichigan

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