Archive for February, 2012
COTA News Digest 20/02/2012
Children of the Andes
Corpolatin
http://www.rcnradio.com. 18/01/2012
Helpline 106 closed down.
The agreement with the Foundation Corpolatin, who was leading the project of the children helpline 106 closed down despite having announced that this program was important for providing care and psychological counselling to children (it was valid for more than a year)
Read more:
http://www.rcnradio.com/noticias/editor/linea-106-se-acabo-por-falta-de-compromiso-lo-131231
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Fundación Paz y Bien (the peace and wellbeing foundation)
We are treated like a mother treats her children
Inocencio, 74, his wife Corina of 51 years have lived through all of Colombia’s relentless civil conflict – some 50 years of uncertainty and violence. They were displaced from a department in the south of Colombia due to fighting between illegal armed groups. But HelpAge’s exceptional partners in Cali, Colombia, are providing much needed solidarity to those who have suffered great loss like Inocencio.
Fundación Paz y Bien (the peace and wellbeing foundation) has a range of psycho-social therapy activities for older people, especially those who have been displaced, as well as offering free legal advice.
Read more:
http://www.helpage.org/newsroom/life-stories/rights/inocencio-74-and-corina-64-colombia/
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Child health care
www.vanguardia.com 17/02/2012
Marginalize ICBF 600 children because of Sisben
Community mothers reported the serious errors that the Sisben survey showed inBucaramanga.
They said, unfairly, children who they care in the homes of the ICBF, were left out of health care services offered therein.
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Young offenders
www.elcolombiano.com 17/02/2012
ICBF recognized failures in care of young offenders
With a crash plan the Government will seek to ensure the care of juvenile offenders who in many cases, face degrading conditions in the centres where they are detained after being caught in the execution of any crime.
Read more:
COTA News Digest 06/02/2012
Teen pregnancy
http://www.planandinopea.org. 03/02/2012
An intersectional plan was approved for the prevention of teen pregnancy in Colombia.
In Colombia, one in five adolescents between 15 and 19 are pregnant or have been a mother, this critical situation has caught the alarm between the Colombian government agencies, so last Tuesday the Council for Economic and Social CONPES approved a $ 246 billion Colombian pesos, equivalent to 136, 6 million, to tackle this issue over the next 5 years.
Read more:
http://www.planandinopea.org/?q=node/419
Teen pregnancy
Colombian NGO´s working with pregnant teens
Organisation: FUNDEACOLOMBIA
Address: Calle 91 A No. 43 – 92. Bogotá, Colombia
Phone number: (1) 6162961 / 6038209
e-mail: fundeacolombia@yahoo.com
Organisation: Los incorruptibles
Address: Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
Barrio: CIUDAD BOLIVAR
Phone number: 3204657157
e-mail: losincorruptibles@gmail.com
Read more:
http://www.somosmas.org/index.php?id=243
http://ong.tupatrocinio.com/infancia-y-juventud-colombia-bogota-c13-p15-d70.html?pag=3
Teen pregnancy
lac.unfpa.org 2011
Team pregnancy prevention.
Teen pregnancy prevention is a priority for the exercise of human rights, including
reproductive rights, with important implications for social development and public health impact
health of adolescent mothers and newborns.
This situation affects women more vulnerable sectors of the population, the educational development of the mother, affects the children of these young mothers can present health problems, and perpetuates poverty cycle, among other factors. That is why it is a problematic that not only impacts in the field of health, but is linked to certain social determinants and inequities important evidence social and gender.
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