Being back home in the past days, I already started to feel nostalgic about the amazing experience as a Peacebuilder Fellow in Honduras. I learned so many enriching things for my professional and personal life during my time there. One thing that fascinated me is how the country with the most violent city in the […]
Latin America still faces the negative effects of a culture permeated by machismo. From catcalling to domestic violence, women suffer daily abuses across the region. While in Belgium it is a criminal offence to insult a person based on gender or to make intimidating sexual remarks in the street, in La Espranza, the village where […]
This post is about one of the things I like the most here, Honduran food. Since we got to La Esperanza, our daily menu is quite limited, but still pretty good. At the house/office we have lived, we always have eggs, mango, avocado, pancakes, tortilla and beans, and this is the list of the ingredients […]
Since we got to Honduras, the news has been permeated with corruption scandals. Many politicians are reportedly involved, including the Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernández. Likewise, in Brazil, corruption is a everyday news, unfortunately, despite the increasingly awareness and vocal protests, citizens tend to forget the name of the politicians engaged in criminal schemes when […]
Pardon my neologism, but after attending some meetings organized by Honduran grassroots groups, I had to write about the “grassmeetings”. The name already gives you some clue of what I will talk about. Our second field trip was to Florida, La Paz. As soon as we get there we headed to a meeting in a […]
Pardon my neologism, but after attending some meetings organized by Honduran grassroots groups, I had to write about the “grassmeetings”. The name already gives you some clue of what I will talk about. Our second field trip was to Florida, La Paz. As soon as we get there we headed to a meeting in a […]
Pardon my neologism, but after attending some meetings organized by Honduran grassroots groups, I had to write about the “grassmeetings”. The name already gives you some clue of what I will talk about. Our second field trip was to Florida, La Paz. As soon as we get there we headed to a meeting in a […]
On our first round of interviews, we went to San Juan a village in the Department of Intibucá. We heard so many interesting stories. But there is one that I would like to share with you. On our way back to the village, after visiting the micro-watershed called Agua Negra, we stopped at a small […]
Back in April, when I received the letter confirming I would be one of the Peacebuilders Fellows in Honduras I was so excited about the adventures awaiting in Honduras. So much crossed my mind. I would finally get to know more about Central America, a region quite close to Brazil, but for some reason not […]
