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Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Latinx Immigrants in Queens

In the heart of Jackson Heights, Queens, a vibrant Latinx community thrives that significantly enriches the diversity of New York City. However, the challenges faced by immigrant Latinx families and their children often remain hidden, overshadowed by issues such as limited access to education, mental health services, discrimination, and gender-based violence.

Approaches to Equity

Voice & participation

Latino Immigrants: Stories of Resilience and Dreams

Explore the compelling stories of immigrant Latinx women and their children in New York City, shedding light on their challenges and triumphs through powerful two to three-minute videos in this collaborative project by Equity for Children, The StoryCenter, and Voces Latinas.

In First Person

Voice & participation

Stories of Resilience and Hope: The Latinx Immigrant Experience in NYC

Delve into a groundbreaking research project that uncovers the challenges faced by immigrant Latinx women and their children in Jackson Heights, Queens. Through shared personal experiences and storytelling that is empowering, the initiative sheds light on barriers to social cohesion that include discrimination, limited access to education, and gender-based violence. With recommendations aimed at fostering […]

Voice & participation

Public Space: An Equalizing Factor for ALL Children & Adolescents

Discover how UNICEF Argentina’s Municipios Unidos por la Niñez y la Adolescencia (MUNA) initiative brought local communities and municipalities together to encourage participation, reflection, and action regarding the rights of all children and adolescents. From citizen debates and cultural workshops to street fairs and sporting events, the initiatives transformed public spaces into vibrant hubs. With […]

Voice & participation

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

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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

Voice & participation

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

Voice & participation

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

Category: Voice & participation

Approaches to Equity

Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Latinx Immigrants in Queens

Latino Immigrants: Stories of Resilience and Dreams

Stories of Resilience and Hope: The Latinx Immigrant Experience in NYC

Public Space: An Equalizing Factor for ALL Children & Adolescents

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

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