All human beings have the right to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature. In poor countries it is essential to encourage changes in the standards of production and consumption, so as to preserve the environment, reach sustainable development, improve the quality of life, and surmount poverty.

As the fundamental unit of society, the family offers the best means for supplying appropriate protection to children and adolescents and for providing them with the proper conditions to foster their holistic development. Therefore, it is vital that parents, both mothers and fathers, participate equally in all spheres of family life, including domestic responsibilities and the education of their children.

Likewise, poverty increases the rate of social, cultural, political, and economic discrimination against women and children. Awareness, education, and examples are crucial to combat this social problem.

Every parent has the right to work and to have means of sustaining a living. Unemployment and low wages are some of the deepest causes at the root of poverty. For this reason, it is essential to educate these parents, not only through literacy, but also through encouraging them to go back to school and promoting their attendance of courses and workshops on different trades and disciplines, furthering their self-efficacy.

Recipients

At-risk children, youth, and families.

Favor lasting and sustainable development for families.

Support proper nourishment and decrease malnutrition.

Educate parents and young adults about healthy sexual and reproductive behavior, maternal and infant prenatal health, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, and the prevention of unwanted and high-risk pregnancies.

Stop gender-based violence against women and girls.

Increase social inclusion of low-income children, youth, and parents.

Encourage active and responsible participation in parenthood.

Promote parent’s integration into employment, which fosters sustainable development of the family.

Improve the conditions of housing and public health.

Enrich the educational standards of children, youth and their families.

Provide medical, dental, and psychological services.

Provide multidisciplinary care and education for pregnant and nursing mothers.

Strengthen family bonds and affirm family values.

Educational programs covering proper diet and nutrition, paying special attention to the prenatal period, breast-feeding, and early childhood.

Programs to raise awareness about the rights of women and children.

Programs to promote healthcare and the care and prevention of diseases.

Education about the correct utilization of resources, such as accessing safe and drinkable water, bettering air quality, improving the status of healthcare, and establishing standards of environmental quality.

Educational workshops on psychological and social problems.

Training programs for the integration of parents into employment.

Raise awareness about the intimate links among health, the elimination of poverty, and the strategies for sustainable development.

Encourage the support of the government and developed sectors to improve the conditions of housing, infrastructure and public health.

The program will have a development to medium and long time limit, year after year the results obtained in the course of the same one will be analyzed to achieve a continuous evolution and growth

Location

Countries of action: Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay.