August 20, 2008
In Colombia, a University Offers Students an Alternative to Violence
Buenaventura, Colombia
Hector Grueso, an aquaculture student at the University of the Pacific, reaches into a black plastic tank and scoops out a struggling freshwater shrimp. He is trying to discover the breeding habits of local shrimp and fish to help neighbors of a devastated river once again catch their own lunches.
As a boy, Mr. Grueso found no way to pursue his interest in fish breeding, and so he worked as a locksmith to raise three children. But after the university opened, in 2000, in this
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