Region category: Latin America

Online violence requires good digital security, but smaller organizations don’t have the resources. Our DDP program throws them a lifeline.

A social sciences student and environmental activist, Alexandra Suruí also advocates for the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Her village Gapgir is located in the Sete de Setembro territory in the Amazon rainforest. Together with her community, she runs an organization that revives traditional farming fields and builds communal chicken coops and fish tanks. This ensures […]

Corporación Cambio Sostenible (CCS), a non-profit organization dedicated to sustainable development and social equity in Colombia, recently faced a significant challenge. Their cloud provider, IFX Networks, was attacked by ransomware. This attack, allegedly orchestrated by the Ransomhouse collective, targeted key websites across Colombia and Chile. The aftermath left CCS grappling with the loss of crucial […]

The We Lead team in Honduras launched a campaign with an exhibit of three statues of teenagers. The statues are covered in testimonies from young Hondurans on how a lack of education about STIs, teenage pregnancy, abuse, and family problems has affected their lives.

Climate change devastates nature and causes injustice and human suffering in far too many parts of the world. Activist Conceição Amorim sees it in her city Imperatriz, at the edge of the Amazon rainforest. There, she has been advocating for human rights for over forty years. Currently, she coordinates the Padre Josimo Center for the Protection […]