Costa Rica -- Day 1: From Social Innovation to the Lived Experience

Day 1:  Sunday, our first day, was anything but a day of rest.  We jumped run into things, spending the morning at the University for Peace, a United Nations-mandated university and our partner institution for this program, learning about social innovation and brainstorming about how design thinking might be applied to children’s rights issues.

After a lunchtime hike to the Monument to Disarmament, Labor, and Peace and beyond, we were privileged to spend the afternoon in the Triangulo de la Solidaridad informal settlement community in San Jose. We are so grateful to the Boy with a Ball team who were our guides and to the community who welcomed us and gave us a chance to learn about their lives.

Arriving at UPEACE