By Sonya Dias | Director of Programs & Parnterships
Students at the Teen Night School in Managua, Nicaragua, deal with the same issues of peer pressure that students at American high schools face. Recently, leaders of the Teen Night School have seen an increase in this behavior. “The primary challenges the school must confront on a daily basis are the problems in the neighborhood. The delinquent behavior is seen as a social problem that has to be resolved with social methods structurally designed by the state through more education, healthy activities and diversions so that the young people and their parents have more opportunity to be employed.”
As a result, students of the school (along with adult leaders) have addressed this program through group outreach and mediation. Providing positive social programming and adult guidance for youth is important in Managua, where youth with no education have limited prospects for creating a healthy and stable future. Last year, 137 students and 546 community members benefited from the Teen Night School.
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