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Hern, Matt – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2009
This article considers and assesses a youth exchange project between two community-based youth centers: The Purple Thistle Centre in East Vancouver, British Columbia, and the K'asho Got'ine Youth Centre in Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. Both centers serve primarily low-income youth, but after that the similarities are very few. The…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Youth Programs, Exchange Programs, Foreign Countries
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Heaton, Tim B.; Forste, Renata – Rural Sociology, 2003
In Bolivia, a third of rural children are stunted, and rural infants are twice as likely to die before age 2 than urban infants. National survey data indicate child survival and development are related to maternal education and literacy, community sanitation practices, access to health care, and socioeconomic status. Parental knowledge about…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, American Indians, Child Development, Child Health