Arbor Assets, Lincoln, NE (2026)

03/26/2022

At Arbor Assets, we've been lucky to partner with ARSAGRO for over 10 years now. Headquartered in Danli, ARSAGRO is located just a few blocks away from the Danli Federal Prison of Honduras.

Check out this compelling episode of "Inside the World's Toughest Prisons" for an interesting walk through one of Honduras's most difficult corners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boXgKr9d1Vk

At Arbor Assets, we’ve been lucky to partner with ARSAGRO for over 10 years now. Headquartered in Danli, ARSAGRO is just a few blocks away from the Danli Federal Prison of Honduras. Check out this compelling video for an interesting walk through one of the world’s more difficult prisons.

02/13/2022

It was a wild week on the Honduran legal landscape. On Wednesday, a Honduran court found that six residents from the small rural community of Guapinol were guitly of interfering with a mining operation. This verdict was widely condemned by international observers who had argued that they were involved in a legitiamte protest against a high-polluting open-pit mine which had degraded water sources in the surrounding area.

But then in a surprise move, the Honduran Supreme Court released all six. Acting on an appeal to the arrest that had been filed months earlier, the Supreme Court found that the case should never have gone to trial because the judge who sanctioned the indictment against the defenders – and later ordered pre-trial detention – was not authorised to do so. The charges must be annulled and the men freed, as the judge violated due process by presiding on cases outside her jurisdiction.

Check out this article which describes the way the events played out.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/11/honduras-environmentalists-mining-protesters-court-ruling

It was a wild week on the Honduran legal landscape. On Wednesday, a Honduran court found that six residents from the small rural community of Guapinol were guitly of interfering with a mining operation. This verdict was widely condemned by international observers who had argued that they were involv...

07/06/2021

Berta Cáceres was a Honduran activist who was murdered in March 2016 because she was interfering with a large, internationally-financed, hydro-electric dam. She was an important humanitarian leader for indigenous populations. Her organizing successes and direct action campaigns made certain well-placed people very upset. She was murdered in her home by seven paramilitaries.

Honduras has been judged as the most dangerous country in the world for environmental activists according to Global Watch. Two more activists were murdered within a month after Berta. The year 2014 saw the murder of 12 activists. Despite all this persecution, they were successful in stopping the dam, which was never built.

Check out this article to get the story on how they found and convicted Berta's killers after a 5 year investigation and a 49 day trial:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/05/berta-caceres-assassination-roberto-david-castillo-found-guilty

Berta Cáceres was a Honduran activist who was murdered in March 2016 because she was interfering with a large, internationally-financed, hydro-electric dam. She was an important humanitarian leader for indigenous populations. Her organizing successes and direct action campaigns made certain well-pl...

05/29/2021

Why is Honduras so violent? Is it politically unstable, or is the problem drug trafficking? Given that it is a relatively small country, why does it have such high levels of migration? What is life like for the migrants who flee, and what is life like for the people who stay?

How does Honduras' drug traffic, it's endemic corruption, lack of development, educational deficiencies, and increasinlgy frequent climate catastrophe's all swirl together? Is the migration exodus a good thing or a bad thing for this small tropical nation?

In trying to answer these questions, check out this first installment of a new docuseries on the historical context and ongoing realites of life in Honduras.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M9u59YI7Ec

Why is Honduras so violent? Is it politically unstable, or is the problem drug trafficking? Given that it is a relatively small country, why does it have such high levels of migration? What is life like for the migrants who fleee, and what is life like for the people who stay? How does Honduras’ d...

12/28/2020

Latin America's rural and Indigenous communities have seen their incomes drop sharply as COVID-19 inflicts economic havoc across the region. With the coronavirus raging out of control in some parts of the continent, its poorest are finding difficulty making ends meet. And even the news of promising vaccines is of little comfort.

Extreme poverty is set to rise this year for the first time in 22 years, with the coronavirus expected to push up to 115 million people into that category, according to the World Bank. Extreme poverty is defined as living on less than $1.90 a day. The projected increase would be the first since 1998, when the Asian financial crisis shook the global economy. Before the pandemic struck, the extreme poverty rate was expected to drop to 7.9% in 2020. But now it is likely to affect between 9.1% and 9.4% of the world's population this year, according to the bank's biennial Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report.

Check out this video from Aljazeera explaining how COVID-related economic depression is impacting rural and indigenous communities across Latin America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TTuc9F3OWQ

And this article from the BBC explains how the impact of COVID-19 is threatening the reduction of extreme poverty worldwide: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54448589

Covid-19 is expected to cause a big rise in those living on less than $1.90 a day, says the World Bank.

11/21/2020

Check out this video about what would happen if the polar ice caps melted.

The main ice covered landmass is Antarctica at the South Pole, with about 90 percent of the world's ice (and 70 percent of its fresh water). Antarctica is covered with ice an average of 2,133 meters (7,000 feet) thick. If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters (200 feet). But the average temperature in Antarctica is -37°C, so the ice there is in no danger of melting. In fact in most parts of the continent it never gets above freezing.

At the other end of the world, the North Pole, the ice is not nearly as thick as at the South Pole. The ice floats on the Arctic Ocean. If it melted sea levels would not be affected. There is a significant amount of ice covering Greenland, which would add another 7 meters (20 feet) to the oceans if it melted. Because Greenland is closer to the equator than Antarctica, the temperatures there are higher, so the ice is more likely to melt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF1edSg5VP4

Check out this video about what would happen if the polar ice caps melted. The main ice covered landmass is Antarctica at the South Pole, with about 90 percent of the world’s ice (and 70 percent of its fresh water). Antarctica is covered with ice an average of 2,133 meters (7,000 feet) thick. If a...

07/19/2020

In the United States, Native Americans experience disproportionately high amounts of violence from law enforcement.

Native Americans ages 20–24, 25–34, and 35–44 are three of the five groups most likely to be killed by police (the others are Black people 20–24 and 25–34). This makes Native Americans more likely than any other racial group to be killed by police despite the fact that they only make up 1.2% of the population of the United States.

Native Americans are 3.1 times more likely than white Americans to be killed by police. Police brutality, especially killings, are underreported, however, because officer's frequently visually assess race and Native Americans are often mistaken for Black, White, or Hispanic.

Check out this compelling CNN article discussing the controversial police killings of Jason Peron, Paul Castaway, Benjamin Whiteshield, Loreal Tsingine, Corey Kanosh, and Zachary Bearheels.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/10/us/native-lives-matter/index.html

In the United States, Native Americans experience disproportionately high amounts of violence from law enforcement. Native Americans ages 20–24, 25–34, and 35–44 are three of the five groups most likely to be killed by police (the others are Black people 20–24 and 25–34). This makes Native...

05/14/2020

Prof. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus himself has received several other national and international honors.

Our organization, Arbor Assets, has based numerous past programs on the Yunus/Grameen approach.

Check out this TED Talk where Prof. Yunus discusses the history of micro-lending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UCuWxWiMaQ

Prof. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus himself has received several other....

05/06/2020

One of the most dangerous places on Earth to be a woman is Central America, as judged by the high number of fatalities and assaults. The phenomenon has led to the mass migration of thousands of women and children north to the border of Mexico and the United States.

In addition to these threats on their safety, women can also be deprived of economic opportunities - another reason why they move. While women generally comprise the majority of the agriculture labor force throughout the developing world, they tend to be significantly less productive because they have less access to land, resources, capital, and destination markets. However, addressing this historical inequity can bring a real windfall: multitudes of studies have shown that women, in much higher numbers when compared to men, tend to reinvest their income directly into their families’ food and water supplies, healthcare, home improvement, and schooling. For these reasons, over 90% of our loans in Central America are to women.

Check out this video where Sky News speaks exclusively to Honduran women who face daily threats to their lives in one of the most dangerous places on earth to be a woman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkN6UmvBG10

One of the most dangerous places on Earth to be a woman is Central America, as judged by the high number of fatalities and assaults. The phenomenon has led to the mass migration of thousands of women and children north to the border of Mexico and the United States. In addition to these threats on .....

04/23/2020

Washing your hands is the most effective natural remedy to keep you healthy by killing germs. But how does this really work? Check out this video on the science behind hand-washing to learn how this simple procedure absolutely annihilates viruses and bacteria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LKVUarhtvE

Washing your hands is the most effective natural remedy to keep you healthy by killing germs. But how does this really work? Check out this video on the science behind hand-washing to learn how this simple procedure absolutely annihilates viruses and bacteria.

04/21/2020

Where did Covid-19 come from? Chinese wet-markets are an easy scapegoat, but that doesn't make sense - there are wet-markets all over the world, including the U.S. It is easiest to understand the current pandemic in the context of infectious disease history. And one thing stands out very clear: these diseases come from animals.

Sometimes these animals are wild and by taking them in, ultimately to breed and/or butcher them, we take on their diseases as well. Examples of this include the civet cat which gave us SARS, the chimpanzee which gave us HIV, as well as bats which gave us MERS, Ebola, and apparently, Covid-19.

And sometimes these diseases take off in domesticated animal populations, and then make the leap over to their human caretakers. Examples here include cows and sheep (which gave us measles), pigs (H1N1/swine flu and whooping cough), camels (small pox), chickens (typhoid fever), ducks (the flu), as well as horses (which gave us the common cold).

So the problem here obviously isn't the much-demonized Chinese wet-markets. Rather, the problem is obviously our relationship to the animal world. The problem is putting animals into densely packed areas. Slaughtering these animals then very much compounds the problem.

The only real solution to this is for the wider propagation of vegetarian diets. Check out this video from Hench Herbivore as he discusses this unfortunate and sad march of animal-introduced infectious diseases and the best ways for us to overcome these challenges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfYE3x-k7YQ

Where did Covid-19 come from? Chinese wet-markets are an easy scapegoat, but that doesn’t make sense – there are wet-markets all over the world, including the U.S. It is easiest to understand the current pandemic in the context of infectious disease history. And one thing stands out very clear: ...

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