PERU Save the Children works in Peru with our partners and allies.Together, we implement programs in the areas of education, health and nutrition, protection from violence, abuse and exploitation, disaster risk reduction and advocacy for children’s rights.
AREAS OF INTERVENTION
OUR WORK Education: we seek to ensure that children have access to safe and good quality basic education services, develop reading skills and achieve learning outcomes. We work so that children with disabilities, and indigenous children have access to relevant education according to their needs and culture. Child Rights Governance: we work with national, regional and local governments seeking to ensure compliance with children’s rights, demand and monitor more and better investment, and promote the active participation of children, adolescents and their organizations in the process of creating laws and policies. Protection: we protect children and adolescents from all forms of violence and exploitation by strengthening the violence protection system. One of our main objectives is to promote that the law banning physical and humiliating punishment is disseminated and implemented.
PIURA LAMBAYEQUE
HUÁNUCO
HUANCAVELICA
Disaster Risk Reduction and Humatarian Response: we develop prevention, preparedness and risk management actions and work with governments, communities and schools to establish and implement emergency and risk management plans.We respond by ensuring protection, timely attention and recovery for the affected children.
APURÍMAC AYACUCHO
Child Poverty: we implement programs with a focus on livelihoods so that children and adolescents can develop their skills and make a successful transition to adulthood. Health & Nutrition: we promote access to sexual and reproductive health education and services.We work in maternal and newborn health with women of childbearing age, and in nutrition with an emphasis on children under 3 years.
JUNÍN
LIMA
MOQUEGUA
2017 OUTREACH 410,000 people. 177,000 children, and 233,000 adults. Outreach by program area:
94,000 Protection
57,000
327,000 Emergencies and Disaster Risk Reduction
Education
39,000
CROSS-CUTTING THEMES Gender, resilience and disasters risk reduction, interculturality and active participation of children and adolescents.
Health & Nutrition
BUDGET 4,900,000
20,000 Child Rights Governance
4,000
Child Poverty
SUCCESS STORY SUCCESS STORY
Zila, 16, is from Huánuco and advocates with authorities for children’s rights
OUR DONORS
The death penalty for rapists is not a solution. Children, adolescents and adults need to learn not to see girls as sexual objects.
• Anglo American Corporation • Disney • UNICEF • Glaxo Smith Kline • Latin America Children´s Trust (LACT) • EuropeAid • Sida - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency • Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)
• Department of Foreign Affairs,Trade and Development Canada (DFTAD) • United States Agency for International Development (USAID) • European Union • End Violence Against Children (EVAC) • Linkin Park • Music for relief • Sociedad Nacional de Industrias