Teach A Man to Compete: Paraguay’s Self-Sufficient Agriculture School
Fundación Paraguaya, winner of Atlas’s Templeton Freedom Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2009, has been racking up awards for its development of the San Francisco Agriculture School – a financially self-sufficient educational experience for transforming poor youth into successful entrepreneurs. The School runs 17 small-scale, on-campus, farming enterprises that train students not only how to [...]
Croatian Prime Minister Resigns, Adriatic Institute Plays Key Role
Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader resigned over the weekend, shocking the Balkan country and the European Union. Since being elected in 2003, Sanader and his cronies have, according to Jeffrey Kuhner of the Washington Times, “Dismantled democratic institutions…controlled much of the media…intimidated or murdered opposition journalists…and turned Croatia into a gangster state.” Atlas’s friends at [...]
Adriatic Institute on BBC News & in the Economist
We’ve written about the Adriatic Institute’s battle against Croatian corruption in the past. It now seems that the institute has caught the ear of the International media. BBC News spoke to Natasha Srodc in this piece, discussing the threats of violence and organized crime in the country. In addition, this article, A Balkan state in [...]
