“COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean. Children´s rights are no quarantined” Save the Children policy paper gathers not only key data to understand the impacts of the humanitarian crisis caused by this global pandemic on children´s life’s,...
The dream of a better future makes millions of girls leave their homes each year. Every girl carries a powerful story – why she migrates, the risks she faces, and the vision of a future she heads toward. It is important that girls’...
Where a child grows up can determine their prospects in life more than you might guess. In most states across America, there are stark differences between communities that provide children the childhoods they deserve, and those where childhoods...
This report presents the results of the baseline program and impact evaluations of Save the Children’s Literacy Education and Nutrition for Sustainability (LENS) program, an intervention aimed at improving the quality of literacy instruction,...
Since 2014, over 10% of the population of Venezuela has left the country (3.4 million), triggering substantial cross-border outflows of people in the region. The number leaving is likely to reach more than 5 million people by the end of 2019 ...
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) faces very high levels of violence towards children and adolescents. In recent years, there has been a spike of violence, particularly involving boys – homicides often linked to gang activities and...
In Haiti, 207,000 children aged 5 to 14 are involved in unacceptable domestic work. Save the Children are campaigning for children in unacceptable domestic work situations. The national campaign “Tout Timoun Ladann” aims to raise...
This first quarterly issue of Save the Children International’s Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Newsletter includes information on what is happening in the countries with Save the Children International (SCI) offices (Nicaragua, Peru, El...
Choices is a gender-focused curriculum for very young adolescents (VYAs) between the ages of 10-14 years that aims to create positive social and behavior change. Through a series of 10 hour-long participatory sessions, the curriculum challenges...
Save the Children commissioned research on teacher support and development as part of a strategy to build professional and technical capacity through sharing knowledge at global, regional and country levels. The research, which this document...