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Berta y Rita
Save the Children wants to change the world, and what better way to do it than through Berta and Rita – two little rats who tell a different story than what we’re used to hearing, and who help us question traditional gender stereotypes that start being fo
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Migration and Displacement of Children in Latin America and the Caribbean
During 2016-2017, 300,000 unaccompanied and displaced children from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala were detained in the United States. The migration is primarily due to violence and poverty in their home countries. Save the Children is actively work
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Experiences on Child Rights Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean (2016-2017)
Child Rights Governance programs and action in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) – under a Child Rights focus and our Theory of Change- are committed to supporting the three breakthroughs Save the Children has proposed for 2030: 1. To Survive 2. To Le
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Menstrual Hygiene Management Impacts Girls’ School Experience in the Bolivian Amazon
In rural Beni, adolescent girls face many challenges when managing their menstruation. Menstruation results in reduced school participation, distraction, and stress, including concern that someone would know they were menstruating; fear about bloodstainin
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Every Last Child Country Spotlight: Bolivia
Save the Children is campaigning at an international and national level to achieve the greatest impact for children with the Every Last Child Campaign. In Bolivia, the number of teenage pregnancies is on the rise. A pregnant adolescent is subject to stigm
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Making Sense of the City: Developing evidence through action research and learning
In 2008, recognising an organisational need to respond and adapt to the growing trend of urbanisation, and its negative impact on the most vulnerable groups, especially children, World Vision launched an action-research and learning approach to investigat
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Adolescents and Youth: A comprehensive approach in Latin America and the Caribbean
Save the Children recognizes adolescents and youth as social actors and agents of change, yet they often face significant rights violations and lack of access to education and other services. Save the Children programming prioritizes the needs of adolesce
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Mantenimiento Escolar de Instalaciones Sanitarias
This document is a school maintenance plan for school sanitary facilities, it includes instructions on how to create a friendly bathroom facility for girls. It includes a plan for maintenance and checklists for bathroom facilities (including daily, weekly
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Operation and Maintenance Financing for School WASH Facilities in Bolivia
This is a case study on the financing for the operation and maintenance (O&M) of school WASH facilities in Bolivia, based on a review of documents, key informant interviews and visits to 15 schools in urban Cochabamba and rural Oruro. Bolivia has decentra
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Tranquila, soy tu amiga Clara
This booklet is an interactive, child-friendly material to help girls through puberty. A girl, Clara, tells her own and her friends' experiences and allows space for the reader to share their experiences too. The booklet teaches about menstruation and pub
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La importancia de la Inversión en Niñez y Adolescencia (Pedro Hurtado Vega)
This video was prepared for a child rights course at a Bolivian University in February 2015. Pedro Hurtado Vega discusses the importance of investment in children and adolescents.
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Work as a factor in the construction of a life plan for working children and adolescents. As examined by a gender-based approach
Participation of working children has a historical foothold in Latin America that is gradually increasing. There are several reasons for this, from traditional and cultural forms—where children get involved in collective, family tasks as part of their upb