I'll give you an example of a program that we implemented in Nicaragua. As you know, our focus is working through communities, and there was an issue of gang violence and lots of fights in the community. We set up a youth group and we educated them on the benefits of having a life without violence to the point that after that happened they went door to door recruiting their peers to show them that violence is not the way to go.
We saw some measurable results after we did it. Children felt more safe in the community after we did that training. So we engaged the youth. Our focus is always to engage youth, whatever the form of violence.
I'll give you another example. In Burkina Faso we worked in a community where there was a high proportion of women who were going into early forced marriages. We set up a community education program. We got mothers and fathers in an education program to make them aware that early, child, forced marriage is not in the best interests of a girl. It limits her opportunity to be able to achieve her full potential.
As the end of that training was completed, women then went door to door and identified young girls who they felt were at risk. At first there was a lot of resistance to it. But over time, within a couple of years, we learned that when mothers and fathers in the communities, or young people in the communities saw a girl who was vulnerable to this, they would go and see this leader and say, “Please be careful, that young girl is vulnerable to early forced marriage.”
So our focus is always on education because we're changing behaviour in any type of violence, whether it be crime or early forced marriage.