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Voice & participation

Video Interview: In First Person – 8

Gloria, her husband and children live in Gloria’s parents’ house in Guatemala City. Currently, only Gloria is able to work to provide food to her family. To learn more about how Gloria’s family is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, watch this week’s video. Alongside most of Latin America, Guatemala is being hit hard by the […]

In First Person

Voice & participation

Video Interview: In First Person – 7

Mrs. Maritza Pfuño Diaz lives with her two sons and one daughter in San Juan de Lurigancho, the most populous district in Lima, Peru. Watch this week’s video to hear about how she is getting her family through the many challenges of the pandemic, including accessing distance learning with limited technology. Peru has employed a […]

In First Person

Voice & participation

Video Interview: In First Person – 6

Nancy and her two children live in a small house in Medellín, Colombia. Because of the pandemic and their resulting lockdowns, Nancy can’t leave her home to go to work. A Chance In Life has sent urgent funds to offer food relief to families like Nancy’s in Medellín through the Congregation of Little Sisters of Redemption […]

In First Person

Voice & participation

Video Interview: In First Person – 5

Equity for Children and A Chance in Life is continuing its efforts to produce, In First Person, a series of video testimonials that aim to voice the perils of the pandemic from the perspective of Latin American families living in poverty. Leidy and her three children live in a small house in a dangerous neighborhood […]

In First Person

Voice & participation

Video Interview: In First Person – 4

Cochabamba, Bolivia: Marcela Suárez is a single mother living with her four children in a small rented room in the outskirts of Cochabamba. Before the pandemic, Marcela sold bottled water and apple juice on the streets of the local market. Watch this week’s En Primera Persona (In First Person) video to learn more about how […]

In First Person

Voice & participation

Video Interview: In First Person – 3

Equity for Children partnered with A Chance in Life to produce a series of brief videos about life during the pandemic for the communities A Chance In Life supports across Latin America. “In First Person” is an audiovisual project that gives voice to current problems experienced by vulnerable families in five Latin American countries. The […]

In First Person

Voice & participation

Video Interview: In First Person – 2

This video interview is great, meaningful, descriptive, hopeful and sad at the same time —hopeful because she exists to help, sad how much she and her work are needed— a great reflection on her underlying belief in the power of community. Video by Ana Minujin

In First Person

Urban inequalities

International Women’s Day

According to a United Nations report, women and girls perform 12 billion hours of unpaid care work around the world every day – three times more than men. In some communities, women spend 14 hours a day cooking, cleaning, fetching wood and water and caring for children and the elderly. Gross Domestic Product does not […]

Approaches to Equity

Voice & participation

30th Anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child

Thank you for joining Equity for Children to recognize the 30th anniversary of the landmark adoption of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC). On November 20th, 1989, world leaders within the UN General Assembly made history, committing to an international agreement on child rights. The CRC has become the world’s most widespread […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

International Day of Peace

Equity for Children thanks you for recognizing and taking action on September 21, International Day of Peace. Since 1981, the day has fostered peace and stability in the world by raising public awareness and mobilizing change. This year, International Day of Peace’s theme is “Climate Action for Peace”, geared toward shining a spotlight on achieving […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

“Children shouldn’t work in fields, but on dreams!”

Thank you for sparing a moment to join our staff at Equity for Children in recognition of World Day Against Child Labour. This year’s observance day comes accompanied by the slogan, “Children shouldn’t work in fields, but on dreams!” 2019 marks the 100 year anniversary of the International Labour Organization (ILO), and this year’s observance […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

Play, a right and a healing to trauma

As this year marks the 60th anniversary of the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child, as well as the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), we wish to highlight an important element of child well-being raised in both documents, and recognize the right of the child […]

Children's Rights

Resource type: Video

In First Person

Video Interview: In First Person – 8

Video Interview: In First Person – 7

Video Interview: In First Person – 6

Video Interview: In First Person – 5

Video Interview: In First Person – 4

Video Interview: In First Person – 3

Video Interview: In First Person – 2

International Women’s Day

30th Anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child

International Day of Peace

“Children shouldn’t work in fields, but on dreams!”

Play, a right and a healing to trauma

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