After the recent economic crisis, those living at the bottom of the economic ladder ended up in severe poverty, creating a significantly larger percentage of children with inadequate living conditions and educational support.

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In response, FSD, interns, volunteers, and donors work with community-based organizations in the La Plata region to:

• Support a daycare center that provides meals, counseling, tutoring, English classes, arts and crafts, cooking courses, and computer science classes for vulnerable children and their mothers.
• Develop athletic education programs for vulnerable children and adolescents. Other extracurricular programs include craftmaking, music, art, and environmental awareness through recreation.
• Continue an FSD organic vegetable garden project that trains marginalized youth how to create a sustainable food source that offers hunger relief and a marketable skill for their future.
• House around 50 orphans, providing them with an education, room, board, and emotional support.
• Offer home-based newborn and young infant care throughout local villages.
• Spearhead recruitment campaigns that draw volunteers to serve as adult mentors for students ages 4-12, thus providing positive role models for marginalized and disabled children.
• Improve the level of education offered to working individuals and those who are otherwise excluded from traditional education by giving capacity-building courses in computer and English skills.
• Support a community library for vulnerable children through book drives, funding research, and other program enhancing initiatives.

Read more about Youth Education & Development programs and opportunities initiated by our Community Partners in Argentina.

For a description of the opportunities available in each development subject addressed by FSD in Argentina, click on the links below:

Microfinance & Microenterprise • Environmental Sustainability • Child and Maternal Health
Youth Education & Development• Gender Equity • Applied Technology • Human Rights

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