Children Action runs programmes in Argentina and Peru to help teenage mothers and fathers strengthen their autonomy, access basic rights, develop a life project, and maintain family ties. Special attention is paid to the children's development, with an intervention focused on the protective factors that ensure their well-being.
Red Mapa
Argentina
After 18 years of experience in the field of adolescent parenthood and recognition at the national level, the Kaleidos Foundation, in collaboration with Children Action, has decided to share this know-how by creating, the Red Mapa platform in 2022.
This platform allows access and the transfer of the methods and tools developed by Jakaira to the different structures dedicated to the support of teenage parents throughout Argentina.
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Access to essential rights
Bonds preservation
Resource building
Teen parents
Approximately 12 million girls aged 15 to 19 and at least 777,000 girls under 15 give birth each year in developing regions, accounting for 11% of all births worldwide.
Psychosocial support
Jakaira
Argentina
Since 2003, Children Action has been working with the Argentinian Kaléidos Foundation to implement the Jakaira project, which aims to support teenage mothers and fathers, and their babies.
The team provides a personalized solution for each beneficiary. It also works with the social health network that supports young parents and organises awareness-raising workshops in schools.
Jakaira operates in Buenos Aires and Traslasierra.
Red Mami
Peru
In Lima, since 2009, the Foundation has been collaborating with the Taller de Los Niños
Association in the Red Mami project, which supports teenage mothers in the San Juan de
Lurigancho favela.
The intervention includes twelve months of intensive support and twelve months of follow-up. It focuses on access to essential rights, protection from violence, and strengthening resources and autonomy through the creation of a "support network" specific to each mother. Return to school and professional integration are also part of the programme.
In numbers
since 1996