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The Puerto Rico Office for Socioeconomic and Community Development (Spanish: Oficina para el Desarrollo Socioeconómico y Comunitario de Puerto Rico (ODSEC)) is a government agency of Puerto Rico that manages projects to improve and develop "Special Communities of Puerto Rico", (Spanish: Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico).
A UNICEF club is a student-led grassroots club present at high school and college levels of education, formed for the purpose of promoting the values of the parent organization the United Nations Children's Fund or UNICEF. The stated goal of the club is "to empower youth with the resources and skills to be effective global citizens" and "to ...
This is a list of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors and advocates, who work on behalf of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) for children's rights. UNICEF goodwill ambassadors are usually selected by regional and national UNICEF offices, the primary office at the United Nations building in New York is responsible for ...
UNICEF (/ ˈ j uː n i ˌ s ɛ f / YOO-nee-SEF), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, [a] is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
The program is funded by both the United States federal government and the Puerto Rican government. [2] [3] Hogares CREA has over 152 facilities worldwide. Besides Puerto Rico, facilities are also established in Florida, [4] Costa Rica, [5] Venezuela, Colombia, Dominican Republic, [6] Panama, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. [2]
The Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Metropolitan Campus (Spanish: Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Recinto Metropolitano) is located in Cupey, San Juan, Puerto Rico. [1] It was built in San Juan due to the large success of the Polytechnic Institute of Puerto Rico. It started its first semester in 1982.
The Inter American University of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico; often abbreviated to UIPR or Inter) is a private Christian university with its main campus in San Germán, Puerto Rico. It also has campuses in Aguadilla, Arecibo, Barranquitas, Bayamón, Fajardo, Guayama, Ponce, and San Juan.
Perhaps as a consequence of Hurricane Maria in 2017 and the prolonged recession in Puerto Rico (which began in 2006), NAP had become fundamental in addressing poverty in Puerto Rico. [28] In 2018, more than 800,000 seniors living in Puerto Rico and over half of Puerto Rico's children, [29] were receiving nutritional assistance through NAP. [30]