COLOMBIA Save the Children works in the most marginalized and remote areas of Colombia.We develop innovative, effective and scalable models that allow children and adolescents to survive, learn and be protected from any risk or threat.Taking on important challenges, we reach the most excluded children, who are affected by armed conflict, poverty, disasters, and other forms of violence.
AREAS OF INTERVENTION GUAJIRA
OUR WORK Education: we work to guarantee the right to an inclusive and quality education, especially for the most excluded children affected by armed conflict.We do this by implementing strategies to qualify teaching in the classroom, and to integrate gender equity and ethno-educational approaches in the schools.We work with the Secretariats of Education to ensure that strategies can be sustainable and replicable. Child Poverty: we generate social and economic opportunities to achieve lasting transformations for a life free of poverty.We promote livelihoods to ensure socio-economic stability for the most vulnerable families, thus improving their quality of life through income generation.We also seek to build capacities in children, adolescents, and youth to help their successful transition to a productive life.
BOGOTÁ VALLE DEL CAUCA CAUCA
Protection: our actions focus on comprehensive protection for children and adolescents.We work to prevent physical and psychological damage caused by violence, neglect and abuse. In communities affected by disasters and armed conflict, we implement strategies for integrated risk management.We create safe and protective environments in educational institutions and the community to prevent and mitigate the consequences of conflict.
NARIÑO CAQUETÁ
Health: we work to improve the health of vulnerable children and adolescents by promoting practices and habits in hygiene, water, basic sanitation and nutrition in schools. Among families and communities, we promote healthy lifestyles that contribute to improving adults’ and children’s quality of life and well-being. Child Rights Governance: we work with national and local governments to ensure compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and to ensure the public investment for children and adolescents.We also work to strengthen the capacities of policy makers capacities to be accountable about children and adolescent rights. Save the Children Colombia aims to strengthen children and adolescents’ participation in several spaces as: family, educational, community and political decision-making settings at national and local level.
2016 OUTREACH 2,228,187 people. 1,972,660 children and 255,527 adults. Programmatic areas:
1,865,708 Protection
288,963 Emergencies
68,866 Education
309,728
CROSS-CUTTING THEMES Gender, resilience, multiculturalism, Child Rights Governance, peace building and active participation of children and adolescents.
Health & Nutrition
Participant in our “Vive la Educación”, funded by the Government of Canada.
Poverty
BUDGET 5,385,596
OUR DONORS
SUCCESS STORY
Lincie, 15, from Limones, Cauca.
868
(...) We are very happy in our school because now teachers know more things and are closer to us.They have taught us to play the marimba, guasá, cununo, to sing, to dance.This has changed the atmosphere in the school because now we feel better integrated with our peers. Those of us who already know how to play and dance teach the other children
#EveryLastChild Culture of Peace
• Bulgari • DIPECHO • European Comission - ECHO We are campaigning with • Ferrovial children and adolescents • GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) victims of armed conflict • Global Affairs Canada in Colombia to ensure • Latin American Children’s Trust a culture of peace and • Ministry of Education promote social investment. • Reckitt Benckiser • Regular givings: guardianes de infancia • Save the Children Canada • Save the Children International • Save the Children Spain • UNICEF
OUR FUNDING NEEDS STRENGHTENING SOCIO-EMOTIONAL CAPACITIES
SKILLS FOR LIFE AND WORK
GOAL
GOAL
To promote quality education, peaceful coexistence and academic performance among children and adolescents affected by different types of violence through socio-emotional learning and teacher and student welfare.
To develop training and certification processes that help generate employability and entrepreneurship capacities in adolescents and young people.
IMPACT
IMPACT
Increased attention levels among students and significantly reduced stress levels among teachers.
Adolescents, young people and their families have the capacity to access socio-economic opportunities.
Children and adolescents learn how to control their emotions, and respond in a less violent way to the situations that occur in their daily lives.
AREAS OF INTEREST Pacific Coast, Guajira and CaquetĂĄ.
AREAS OF INTEREST Cali, Tumaco, Guapi and Buenaventura.
SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CHILDREN ON THE MOVE
GOAL GOAL To improve the protection of children who migrate either voluntarily or involuntarily by increasing their access to comprehensive and coordinated protection systems, which protect them from exploitation, abuse, neglect, violence and discrimination.
IMPACT Information about the risks of insecure migration: boys and girls are provided with preventive care interventions and quality support. Responding to the needs of children in situation of human mobility: children in transit or reaching their destination receive appropriate support and protection. Legal and policy reform at the national level: Displaced children are protected by laws and/or policies. National and regional frameworks are consistent with asylum, migration and trafficking policies, and with the Best Interest of the Child.
AREAS OF INTEREST
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IMPACT Adolescents, their families, teachers and community leaders trained in sexual and reproductive rights. Well-informed adolescents with the capacity to make decisions about their life plans and their sexuality. Ethnic communities modify cultural habits that affect adolescents’ sexual and reproductive life and rights.
AREAS OF INTEREST Maicao and Riohacha in La Guajira and the Pacific Coast.
Country border areas.
CONTACT:
To promote and ensure that adolescents have access to sexual and reproductive health services, with an emphasis on preventing early pregnancies.
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