EL SALVADOR Save the Children has been implementing programs in El Salvador for almost 40 years.We work with partners and allies in the most vulnerable areas of the country.Through our flagship program “First Steps to Success”, we work with children to achieve their full development from conception through adolescence, by providing protection, health, nutrition, education and early childhood interventions.
AREAS OF INTEREST
We also work in the areas of livelihoods, economic empowerment of families, humanitarian response, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
OUR WORK
SANTA ANA
CABAÑAS
Education: we promote access to early childhood and primary education. AHUACHAPÁN SAN SALVADOR We provide technical support to ensure quality education and that children SONSONATE learn as expected from their grade.We also advocate to increase investment SAN MIGUEL in education and promote access to education in emergencies. LA PAZ USULUTÁN Child Rights Governance: we promote the creation and implementation of public policies for comprehensive development of children, with a focus on their rights. Protection: Save the Children strengthens protection systems for children living in violent and exploitative environments.We work towards eliminating all forms 2017 OUTREACH of physical and humiliating punishment in homes and schools, and strengthening the resilience and the capacity of vulnerable children to cope with crises. 1.9 million people, 756,000 children and 1.15 million adults Poverty Reduction: we advocate for policies to reduce child poverty, and implement programs with a focus on livelihoods so adolescents can develop the Outreach by program area: skills to make a successful transition to adulthood. Maternal and Child Health: we work to eliminate child mortality from 147,000 611,000 preventable causes, with a focus on preventing preterm births and adolescent Protection Emergencies pregnancy.We also promote equitable access to health services. School Health and Nutrition: children lead the intervention to improve 1,100,000 the health and nutrition practices at school.We prevent undernourishment Education and child obesity and ensure a basic set of health services are available at schools. 91,000 Humanitarian Response: we work with unaccompanied migrant children Health & Nutrition and intervene in emergency situations. 6,000 Disaster Risk Management: we strengthen the capacity of institutions Child Rights and communities to respond to disasters. Governance
8,000
Child Poverty
CROSS-CUTTING THEMES Gender, resilience, interculturality and active participation of children and adolescents.
BUDGET 4,782,000
TESTIMONIO
Franklin, 11 years old.
I remember that before the cleaning brigade formed, my school was not clean.The brigadiers helped us to keep our school clean and taught us how to wash our hands. I always admired them and dreamed of being one of them, but I was too young. Last year, I was finally chosen to be part of the brigade.
OUR DONORS • Industrias Alimenticias DIANA • P&G • Ogilvy • Bulgari • Impression Apparel • Textufil S.A. de C.V. • TOMS Shoes. • Academia Británica Cuscatleca • ACNUR • USAID • AMEXCID • UNESCO • EuropeAid
• Save the Children United States. • Save the Children Italy • Save the Children Sweden • Save the Children Spain
#EveryLastChild
My right to education travels with me
We are campaigning with children and adolescents to ensure access to education for forcibly displaced children, and to change public attitude on the importance of the right to education for all.
OUR FUNDING NEEDS MY RIGHT TO EDUCATION TRAVELS WITH ME. ENSURING ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATION FOR DISPLACED CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
INTEGRAL ADOLESCENT HEALTH
GOAL
GOAL To raise awareness about the lack of access to education for internally displaced children, by setting up mechanisms within the national education system to showcase the issue. Further, to ensure learning opportunities for displaced children by developing appropriate options together with schools, civil society organizations and families.
To promote adolescent-friendly environments to teach adolescents and youth about sexual and reproductive rights, birth control, sexual violence and abuse, and inscription for programs and controls to ensure their integral health.
IMPACT 1,400 adolescents and youth
IMPACT
Health staff and learning circles in 64 schools.
75,000 internally displaced children and adolescents. Families, community leaders, national government.
AREAS OF INTEREST
PERIOD
Departments of Ahuachapán, La Paz and Sonsonete.
2 years
PERIOD 3 years
IMPROVING THE RESILIENCE AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT CAPACITY OF CHILDREN LIVING IN VIOLENT CONTEXTS
PROMOTING THE VOICE AND PARTICIPATION OF ADOLESCENTS
GOAL GOAL To scale-up the HEART methodology developed by Save the Children and include it in the national curriculum to promote a culture of peace and safe environments in schools by strengthening resilience and crisis management.
IMPACT
To develop advocacy processes with adolescents as key actors using art to strengthen their capacities to identify and prioritize problems related to their rights. To develop their communication skills and capacity to monitor public policies and budgets.
IMPACT
More than 1 million children and adolescents ages 1-15.
1,000 adolescent girls
Parents, teacher and community leaders. Professionals and volunteers attending children under 5 years of age.
PERIOD
700 adolescent boys Teachers from 73 schools Local Governments
PERIOD
2 years
2 years
CONTACT:
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