El 56% de los niños puertorriqueños vive en la pobreza.
The National Council of La Raza reported through the report "Our children have" that 56 percent of children in Puerto Rico living in poverty, more than triple that in U.S..
organization dedicated to defending civil rights of Hispanics in the United States occurred in San Juan a study that shows the alarming situation being experienced by a representative of the children of the island.
"KIDS COUNT - Puerto Rico Data Book 2010" contains figures which point to the island as U.S. jurisdiction with the highest rates of teenage parents in the municipality of Vieques reaches to 114 per 1,000 women aged between 15 and 19.
KIDS COUNT - Puerto Rico is an effort to annually collect and analyze data relating to children to improve the welfare of the youth of Puerto Rico. The report KIDS COUNT - Puerto Rico Data Book 2010 provides statistical information on the conditions of children in Puerto Rico and in each of its 78 municipalities. The data presented in this book were obtained from the Division of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Department of Puerto Rico and the Population Division and the American Community Survey Census Bureau U.S.. - Nayda Rivera-Hernandez & Veronica L. Andino-Ortiz (March 2, 2011)
Puerto Rico is also the jurisdiction States with the highest number of teens not in school nor working, a situation which is 14.6 percent of that group.
The report's lead author and researcher at the National Council of La Raza, Nayda Rivera Hernandez, traced through the data provided in the report, a worrying picture of the country's children, especially when compared with U.S..
For example, in 2007-the year to which they relate most survey data, the births of babies with low birth weight under 2,500 grams, accounted for 11 percent of the total, although in some districts figure was around 20 percent.
Rivera Hernández stressed that some of the problems stem from low academic levels of children and youth in the country, as reflected in the report, which notes that in the period 2006-2008 by 8, 4 percent of adolescents between 16 and 19 did not attend school or had graduated from high school.
The figure is higher than the U.S., where the situation was only 6.5 percent of adolescents in this age group.
As the figure for the lack of financial resources between 2006 and 2008 a total of 545,000 children lived in Puerto Rico in poverty, ie a family of four with less than $ 21,834 a year, which Office of Management and Budget considers U.S. poverty line.
poverty level at that time ranged from 35 percent of the district of Trujillo Alto, close to the metropolitan area, and 77.8 percent in Orocovis, in the middle of the country.
The alarming poverty rate in that period meant that 47.1 percent of Puerto Rican children receive public assistance, more than half the U.S. rate.
Support focuses on rural municipalities in the interior, while the San Juan metropolitan area are relatively low.
poverty in Puerto Rico, according to the report, is related to low family income between 2006 and 2008 reached annually on the island of $ 20,795 compared to 60,764 U.S..
The study points out that another reason for the country's poverty is that by 49.7 for Puerto Rican children living in single parent families, compared with 32 percent of the U.S..
E NLAC s with the study (p df ):
http://www.nclr.org/index.php/publications/nuestros_nios_cuentan_puerto_rico_libro_de_datos_2010/
http://es.scribd.com/doc/50954970/Estudio-Nuestros-Ninos-Cuentan-National-Council-of-La-Raza
UN Liaison / Declaration of the Rights of Children:
http://www.un.org/es/events/ childrenday /
Delano Born in Kiev, Russia in 1914. The family moved to the United States in 1923. Roy Stryker was invited to join the federal Farm Security Administration (Farm Security Administration) as part of a small group of photographers. In 1941, Delano moved to Puerto Rico where he worked as a photographer and music composer. Delano died in Puerto Rico on August 12, 1997.
On our island, Jack Delano founded the Film Section of the Commission of Public Parks and Recreation of Puerto Rico and assisted in the founding and development of the Division Community Education Department (DIVEDCO) Public Education of Puerto Rico and organized the department of film production.
was worthy of recognition for his contribution to music, such as Ateneo awards of Albertus Magnus College, the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and the American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers. "
Jack Delano donated his photographic collection Contrasts: Forty years of change and continuity in Puerto Rico at the Museo de Arte de Ponce. Among his publications are Elders trees, magical trees, from San Juan to Ponce on the train, In search of the Master Lamb and the day the town said goodbye to Muñoz.
Among many awards, Jack Delano received the title of Doctor of Arts, Honoris Causa, University of the Sacred Heart in 1987 and Doctor of Humanities, Honoris Causa, University of Puerto Rico in 1991 .
'love and respect captured in his portraits Delano let me clear that greater recognition was being part of our people and their reality, hopes, dreams and struggles.
Holy Spirit Parish in San Patricio Loiza is one of the oldest churches in Puerto Rico.
In 1492, when the English arrived, say the chronicles of Puerto Rico "in every valley had a chief, and there was a chieftain" Luisa el Incaleque Aymanto”. Se estima la población de taínos entre 70 mil a cien mil, no hay documentos que puedan precisar dicha cantidad.
Afirman que el nombre de Loíza se debió a que la cacica que originalmente se llamaba Loíza o Yuisa, gobernó el territorio llamado Jaymanio, en las márgenes del río Cayrabón, el actual Grande de Loíza.
In 1513, under the leadership of the chiefs and his brother Vieques Cacimar Yaureibo, Vieques Taino attacked the English settlements on the east coast of Puerto Rico, near the town of Loiza. During one of these battles Cacimar died.
is the second rebellion in India in the east of the island of Puerto Rico, where Amerindians have joined the Caribbean to deal with the English, kill the chieftain Luisa and her husband, the mulatto Pedro Mejías in defending the village.
Later Yaureibo leads an expedition against the English in the empty area Talega, Loiza Piñones sector and manage to defeat the English.
In fact, there is a lack of documentary evidence verficables strong and that the Christian name was Luisa Yuisa or their chiefdom, or marrying Mejías.
In 1645, a reporter mentioned the existence of a chapel dedicated to St. Patrick's in place.
The church began in 1645 and ended in 1776.
In 1776, Fray Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra wrote "Three miles farther east along the coast of the sea, passing the Loys River, which is plentiful, and on the right bank is the parish church, which is decent, with five houses that make up the town square, the other to the number of 166 inhabitants per 1.146 souls of all castes. "
In 1729, the chapel enlarged to become the church today. The massiveness of the walls made it possible, as well as religious structure, was used as a shelter during a storm or attack enemies.
30 years ago the church was rebuilt and considers that it has lost its true archaeological value. It is currently the oldest church in Puerto Rico to stay active.
