News stories by Patricia Montero Lafourcade

'Without this opportunity, I might never have been able to get a higher education,' says Paolo Carabajal, one of the beneficiaries of a digital development plan in this city in northwestern Uruguay.

Beekeepers in the small South American country of Uruguay are facing climate change and a complex web of problems that threaten their livelihoods.

'After work, when I'm on my own, I'm bored to death. If you want amenities, you have to bring them yourself,' says young forestry worker Alejandro de Leiva, who works on a tree plantation in the western Uruguayan province of Paysandú, where he lives and works for 10 to 12 days in a row, with just two days off.

'At first I was embarrassed and had a hard time getting involved, but then I started relaxing. I like it a lot, because it helps me share different things with my kids,' says María José Jara, a young mother from a poor neighbourhood in this Uruguayan city, referring to an innovative and successful family literacy project.