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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.

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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.

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Child Poverty

Why do children suffer poverty more frequently than other populations?

According to a research study conducted by Professor Alberto Minujin, monetary poverty in Argentina and non-monetary deprivations increased during the Covid-19 pandemic, having a devastating effect on children.

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Urban inequalities

“Children and COVID-19”: Journalists in Dialog with Experts

In 2021, Equity for Children hosted a series of webinars from Latin America entitled “Children and COVID-19”, which discussed the approximately 150 million children who were plunged into multidimensional poverty during the pandemic. The events were organized in partnership with The Arcor Foundation, The Institute of Collective Health of the University of Lanus, Argentina (ISCo/UNLa) […]

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Urban inequalities

High Level Political Forum Official Side Event

The role of child-sensitive social protection in the sustainable andresilient recovery from COVID-19. The event will facilitate an engaging debate around Child-Sensitive Social Protection (CSSP) and engage children and young people in the discussion. Child poverty has sky-rocketed as a result of COVID-19, inflicting devastating damage on children’s development and undermining the realization of their […]

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Urban inequalities

Impact Report 2020

Equity for Children’s Impact Report 2020 is now available for download.

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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 […]

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Child Poverty

At The Bottom Again: Child Wellbeing In The U.S.

by Equity for Children’s Senior Advisor, Samantha Cocco-Klein 9/14/2020 The latest UNICEF report on child wellbeing in rich countries is out – Worlds of Influence – and once again the U.S. is ranked at the bottom. The U.S comes in 36th out of 38, scoring low across all three dimensions of child wellbeing: mental health, physical health and […]

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Urban inequalities

COVID-19 and Education: Opening Schools for All Children

Organized by Equity for Children and the Arcor Foundation, this webinar delves into educational inequities and the importance of opening schools. More than 100 people across North and South America attended.

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Urban inequalities

Educational Gaps During the Pandemic: The Persistent Challenge of Access to Learning for All

Introduction In the world of Covid-19 2020, remote education is the most viable strategy for schooling. During the first few months of the year, a state of sanitary emergency was declared throughout most of Latin America. Classes were suspended, without accurate predictions as to how long the suspension would last. The halt in the educational system […]

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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 […]

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Children and Poverty in the Era of Covid-19: How Remote Learning Exacerbates Inequality in New York City

On June 10, a webinar entitled “Children and Poverty in the Face of Covid-19: How Remote Learning Exacerbates Inequality in New York City” took place and was jointly sponsored by Equity for Children (EFC) at The New School, All Together in Dignity Fourth World (ATD 4th World) and the Center for New York City Affairs […]

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