The effort to strengthen public education, the National Teaching Plan, along with a higher education reform initiative, will hit the Chilean national congress in March. 

An initiative by the city of São Paulo offers scholarships for transwomen to study, helping them move away from prostitution and street violence. 

Obesity weighs on Latin America after success in fighting hunger.  More than half of Latin American adults are overweight, and the percentage increases for the region’s poorest inhabitants. 

Honduras wants to target 400,000 illiterates, and the government expects to double the number of people who attend literacy programs.