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 [...]
A Violent Attack on Free Speech
This week, three members of Fundación Libertad in Paraguay were beaten and attacked during a peaceful demonstration advocating human rights for Cuba. The aggressors were members of Paraguay´s Communist Party, and were apparently provoked by the phrase, Down with the Castro dictatorship which was chanted by one of Fundación Libertad´s employees. Juan Carlos Rojas, who [...]
