Save the Children Canada

Published purpose

The project aims to support girls and boys, from infancy to young adulthood, become healthy, educated and productive citizens. The project’s expected results include improved life opportunities for working youth in Bolivia, Peru, Nicaragua, Burkina Faso and Kenya who are educated about their rights and have acquired marketable skills. Its objectives also include a better quality of primary education for indigenous children in Bolivia through the provision of teacher-training in child-friendly pedagogy, an increased prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding and healthy weaning of newborns and infants in Burkina Faso, the prevention and mitigation of HIV/AIDS as well as improved health of children in Kenya, and the promotion of children's rights in 23 cities across Canada.