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ABSTRACT
In Argentina there are more than 9000 children without parental care due to prior abuse or neglect, assisted in foster child care facilities. The quality of care provided there impacts on the well-being of children and on multiple aspects of their adult life. Prevention in health in this setting has its own characteristics. Lack of policies that guarantee good practices, not only concerns to the exercise of the right to health established by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but also conditions the exercise of other rights. Care requires knowledge, skills and attitudes…
Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, reducing child mortality and achieving all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to health and education are largely dependent on progress in nutrition. If undernutrition is not successfully addressed, it will be difficult to reach the other MDGs. Every year, it is estimated that undernutrition contributes to the deaths of about 5.6 million children under the age of fi ve. One out of every four children under five – or 146 million children in the developing world – is underweight for his or her age, and at increased risk of an early death.…
The SOS Social Centers is a SOS Children’s Villages project that seeks to protect children at risk due to poverty. The Centers work in areas peripheral to the Bolivian cities of Cochabamba, Tarija, Oruro, Santa Cruz and Sucre. SOS Social Centers offer protection and education for the children of families without the necessary finances to support them. The children are attended to during the day and have access to health, nutritional and education services. The center also promotes the inclusion of women and the families of the children attended to at the centers in daily activities.
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