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Voice and Action in Queens: A Place for Inclusion and Belonging

Latinx Women and Families in Queens: Voice and Action, a research grant funded by The Spencer Foundation, focuses on the experiences of undocumented Latinxs, cis, trans, heterosexual, and LGBTQ+, some with children, who have emigrated from Latin America and the Caribbean and are now living in Western Queens.

Approaches to Equity

Voice & participation

Empowering Youth on Staten Island: Reaching Adolescents in Jeopardy

Equity for Children and the worldwide non-profit A Chance In Life partnered to produce a video series about The Village, a youth center in Staten Island, at which adolescents who are disconnected from school and employment meet to build their skills and have a better chance to overcome poverty and succeed in life.

Approaches to Equity

Voice & participation

World Children’s Day November 20th, 2020

Every November 20th, we come together to celebrate World Children’s Day. This is in commemoration to the UN General Assembly Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959 and the Convention of the Rights of the Child ratified in 1989. These human rights treaties are the most widely ratified in history. These are the […]

Children's Rights

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Equity for Children’s In First Person Video Presented to United Nations Secretary-General at the High Level Consultation

“Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond” On Monday, November 2, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Ambassadors and State Representatives from around the world viewed an Equity for Children In First Person video that was presented at a United Nations event entitled: “Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond”. Discussants from civil society organizations met with the UN Secretary-General […]

Approaches to Equity

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Cuilapa, Guatemala – In First Person

We travel today to Cuilapa, Guatemala. Edith lives with her three daughters, her two sisters, and her mother. Edith’s neighborhood of Canton Utzumazate is quiet and beautiful, but doesn’t have access to safe drinking water, electricity or paved roads. The families living there must buy safe water weekly to cook their food and practice safe […]

In First Person

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Buenaventura, Colombia – In First Person

Lorena, Victor and Gloria’s druthers attend the John Paul I Girl’s Home in Buenaventura, Colombia. The pandemic has brought economic problems to all three families including unemployment. All three parents have difficulties with distance learning. They don’t have internet access and the necessary tools for their daughters to complete their school work. Lorena, Victor, and […]

In First Person

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Cúcuta, Colombia – In First Person

In the final testimonial of our In First Person series, we return to Cúcuta, Colombia. María Alejandra lives as a single mother with her five children in the Navarro Wolf neighborhood. She is expecting another child, and with the risks of her high-risk pregnancy now compounded by the ongoing pandemic, has been unable to work […]

In First Person

Voice & participation

Returning to School in The Covid-19 Era: Advancing Educational Policy in Latin America

Date: 8/26/2020 Time: 9:30 AM (NY) Co-sponsored by The ARCOR Foundation and Equity for Children at The New School, this webinar will address educational priorities and fostering equity for children during the era of Covid-19. After six months of the pandemic’s “new normal”, families and policymakers are struggling with how to re-open educational institutions […]

Approaches to Equity

Voice & participation

Nuevo San Salvador, Perú – In First Person

Roxana lives in the Nuevo San Salvador human settlement of the San Juan de Lurigancho district of Lima, Peru with her three children. Roxana’s children attend the Fe y Alegría School. Her two youngest children, Brisa and Fabián, are attending virtual classes in the morning using Roxana’s cell phone. It has been difficult for both […]

In First Person

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Lima, Perú – In First Person

Mirtha is a single mother who lives in Lima, Peru with her young daughter, Brigid. Both of them live in a settlement called Sacred Valley that is located in San Juan de Lurigancho, the most populous district of the city. Before the pandemic, Brigid attended Fe y Alegria School No. 26. Since the school is […]

In First Person

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Bogota, Colombia – In First Person

Angela’s two daughters used to attend the Veracruz Girl’s Home boarding school run by the Congregation of Sisters Little Apostles of Redemption in Bogota. Angela lives with her two daughters, her sister and her sister’s six-month-old baby girl. The quarantine has made it very difficult for Angela to make ends meet for her household, and […]

In First Person

Voice & participation

Sumpango, Guatemala – In First Person

Today, we travel to Guatemala to speak with Sra. Lidia and Sra. Aura, who are weathering the pandemic with their families on farms in Planes de Sumpango. Before COVID-19, Sra. Lidia’s children and Sra. Aura’s grandchildren attended Mother Anna Vitiello school. Now that the school is temporarily closed, the children have returned home to the […]

In First Person

Category: Voice & participation

Approaches to Equity

Voice and Action in Queens: A Place for Inclusion and Belonging

Empowering Youth on Staten Island: Reaching Adolescents in Jeopardy

World Children’s Day November 20th, 2020

Equity for Children’s In First Person Video Presented to United Nations Secretary-General at the High Level Consultation

Cuilapa, Guatemala – In First Person

Buenaventura, Colombia – In First Person

Cúcuta, Colombia – In First Person

Returning to School in The Covid-19 Era: Advancing Educational Policy in Latin America

Nuevo San Salvador, Perú – In First Person

Lima, Perú – In First Person

Bogota, Colombia – In First Person

Sumpango, Guatemala – In First Person

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