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Health:

The National “Got Milk?” Campaign is launched its Spanish language web site, 2424leche.com. The site provides users with up to date information on milk's benefits. The site includes features to make learning about milk a fun, while helping fight the battle against obesity.

The site educates the Hispanic community on why it’s important to include 24 oz. of milk every 24 hours as part of a healthy diet. It includes information from recent studies that suggest that low fat  / fat free milk, as part of a reduced calorie diet, can help you achieve a healthy weight.

Johnson & Johnson Hispanic Trailer Cross Country Tour

A 2005 grassroots campaign to get its health-care brands in front of more Hispanics, Johnson & Johnson sent a 53-foot-long trailer exhibit on a 34-week cross-country tour to 100 Wal-Mart stores and 20 Hispanic fiestas.

Education:

Kraft Foods’ English as a Second Language (ESL) Program

In partnership with community organizations across the country, Kraft Foods is offering a creative English as a Second Language (ESL) curriculum to the Hispanic community. Designed to teach the basic elements of the English language, plus the additional educational components of healthful eating, nutrition label comprehension, and food preparation, for the past four years, this program has provided a fun and innovative educational curriculum to help teach English to Spanish speaking adult students utilizing a key element of the Hispanic culture – food.

Education in Latino Public High Schools - (Pew Hispanic)

1) Hispanic teens are more likely than blacks and whites to attend public high schools that have the most students, the highest concentrations of poor students and

1) A second report released by the Center on the high school attendance of foreign-born teens points to the importance of schooling abroad in understanding the dropout problem for immigrant teens, finding that those teens have often fallen behind in their education before coming to the United States. Immigrant teens contribute disproportionately to the overall number of the nation's dropouts, often calculated as the number of school-aged teens not enrolled in school.

3) In a third report released found that the number of young Hispanics going to college is increasing. But the study, which examined the latest available enrollment data from individual colleges, found that the number of whites enrolling in four-year colleges is increasing even more rapidly -- widening a large gap between whites and Latinos in key states.

The Higher Drop-Out Rate of Foreign-Born Teens

* Only 8 percent of the nation's teens are foreign-born, but nearly 25 percent of the teen school dropouts are foreign-born. Nearly 40 percent of these foreign-born dropouts are recent arrivals who interrupted their schooling before coming to the United States.

* Regardless of what country they come from, teens who interrupted their schooling prior to immigration are much less likely to re-enroll and complete their educations here.

* Many of the male recent arrivals with educational difficulties before migration are likely to be labor migrants, who came to the United States specifically to work.