Why are childrens lives in El salvador good?

Question

i need it for a report

is there a website that tells about their voice

Answer 1

uhm....is it good?

there is child labor and bad living conditions.

Save the Children's Work in El Salvador

El Salvador

Save the Children has worked in rural communities of El Salvador since 1979. During this time, the country has experienced dramatic changes, including 12 years of civil war, a reconstruction period and natural disasters. Our programs have helped children and their families through health and education initiatives, rights-based advocacy in the areas of gender and the prevention of violence, along with rapid response and reconstruction efforts in times of emergencies.

Challenges for Children

El Salvador is plagued by violence and the presence of youth gangs. High levels of migration result in an extremely mobile population and youth who lack the motivation to stay or invest in their community. There is a high dropout rate among disadvantaged children who start primary school unprepared for school and a growing child-trafficking crisis.  Families who were affected by Hurricane Stan and the eruption of the Ilamatepec volcano also still struggle to recover.

Children learning from fun, active teaching methodology at the ECD center in Rosario Tablón, Cuscatlán.

Children learning from fun, active teaching methodology at the ECD center in Rosario Tablón, Cuscatlán.

At a Glance

    * On average, there are 9.8 murders daily in El Salvador;

    * In 2005, 60 percent of all homicides were gang-related;

    * Only 25 percent of children in rural areas complete the fifth grade;

    * The greatest drop out rate occurs in the first grade — close to 16 percent;

    * Four out of 10 adolescent girls under the age of 19 are themselves mothers.  

Our Response

Life-cycle Programming

Our programs combine health and education initiatives to address specific needs through a life-cycle approach. Our Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs in three of the most impoverished regions of the country — Cuscatlán, Cabañas, and Sonsonate — ensure that young children are well nourished, healthy, socially supported, emotionally engaged and encouraged to learn. Following up on these solid ECD foundations, Save the Children's transitions programs prepare children for school and schools for children.

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      Population: 6,948,073

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      Population Growth Rate (annual %): 1.7

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      National Poverty Rate (%): 48

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      Life Expectancy at Birth (years): 72

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      Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births): 23

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      Children Under-5 Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births): 27

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      Lifetime Risk of Maternal Mortality (1 in number stated): 180

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      Adult Male Literacy Rate (% of males 15+): 83

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      Adult Female Literacy Rate (% of females 15+): 78

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      Population with access to an improved water source (%): 84

Sources: CIA World Factbook, World Bank, UNDP



Youth Programs

Save the Children's programs target vulnerable youth — including those at risk of joining gangs — and helps them find alternatives to delinquency and early parenthood. Youth groups are involved in emergency preparedness, health brigades, ECD programming, sports, recreation activities and vocational training. We also are bringing together youth and local health service providers to help increase youths' access to quality health services.

Protection

A serious and growing crisis in El Salvador is child trafficking for the purpose of child labor or commercial sexual exploitation. In partnership with a human rights institution for women, Save the Children has mapped child trafficking routes through and within the country. In these areas, we raise awareness about trafficking and provide support to those who have been directly affected.

Emergency Response

Save the Children responded quickly to the devastation of Hurricane Stan and the Ilamatepec volcano by providing water, blankets, diapers, children's clothing, toys and other non-food items to some 3,000 children and adults in the departments of Sonsonate and Cuscatlán. We also created "safe spaces" which helped children regain a sense of normalcy through participation in recreational, educational and psychosocial activities such as role playing, art, sports, music and dance. In addition, we provided poor farming families with seeds and tools, to improve their food security and incomes.  Plans for the Future



Save the Children continually works to strengthen its current programs and services in El Salvador by improving the quality of these initiatives, raising community awareness of our education, imlementing health and protection programs, and increasing access to them.

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El Salvador: Hazardous Child Labor on Sugar Plantations

What You Can Do  in Spanish

Turning a Blind Eye - Report Cover

FULL REPORT

Map of El Salvador

Glossary

Summary

Recommendations

The Use of Child Labor in Sugarcane Cultivation

The Role of Sugar in the Salvadoran Economy

An Overview of Sugarcane Cultivation

Beginning Age of Work

Health Risks

Work with Dangerous Tools

Exposure to Hazardous Substances

Herbicide Application

Cutting and Planting Unburned Cane

Working with Burned Cane

Access to Medical Treatment

Hours of Work

Wages

Access to Water and Food

The International Prohibition on Harmful or Hazardous Child Labor

The Relationship Between Child Labor and Education

The Effect of Work on Education

The Cost of Education

The Right to Education

The Complicity of Sugar Mills and the Responsibility of Multinational Corporations

The Role of the Sugar Mills

Providing Transport: Ingenio San Francisco

Recruitment: Ingenio La Cabaña, S.A. de C.V.

Administration of and Technical Assistance to Sugar Plantations: Compañía Azucarera Salvadoreña, S.A. de C.V.

Following the Supply Chain: The Link Between Child Labor and The Coca-Cola Company

The Responsibility of Multinational Corporations

The Response of the Salvadoran Government and the International Community

The Lack of Inspections

The International Community

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Appendix A - Correspondence Between Human Rights Watch and the Coca-Cola Company

.pdf file ( 4 Mb, 18 pages)

Appendix B - Correspondence Between Human Rights Watch and the Salvadoran Sugar Association

.pdf file ( 1.7 Mb, 34 pages)

Appendix C - Sample Letter Sent to Other Sugar Mills Mentioned in this Report

.pdf file ( 97 Kb, 6 pages)

Appendix D - Sample Letter Sent to Other Multinational Corporations Mentioned in this Report

.pdf file ( 96 Mb, 5 pages)

Child labor is pervasive on sugar plantations in El Salvador. Children as young as eight use machetes to cut cane, working for up to nine hours each day in the hot sun. Gashes on the hands and legs are common. Medical care is often not available, and when it is, the cost is usually borne by the families of injured children. Children frequently do not attend school during the harvest, which runs through the first few months of the academic year.

El Salvador’s sugar mills and the businesses that purchase Salvadoran sugar use the product of hazardous child labor, a fact they know or should know. Even though many of these businesses, including The Coca-Cola Company, do not condone or permit child labor in their own or their direct suppliers’ operations, child labor is widespread on the plantations that supply the country’s sugar mills.

The Salvadoran government and the businesses that use the product of hazardous child labor must do more. The government should strengthen existing efforts to move children out of hazardous work and into educational and vocational training programs, and it should enforce laws that guarantee universal access to basic education. Coca-Cola and other businesses must monitor labor conditions on sugar plantations and provide assistance to plantations that fall short of international standards. Coca-Cola and other businesses should also recognize their responsibility to ensure respect for human rights, including the prohibition on the worst forms of child labor, throughout their supply chains. In particular, they should support programs and services that offer children and their families alternatives to child labor; they should not simply fire children who are found to be working in hazardous occupations.

You can help. Write to The Coca-Cola Company and the Salvadoran Sugar Association. Copy and paste the text of the following letters into the body of your message, edit it as you see fit, and sign your name and address.

Answer 2

Good for what? Is that the question?

Answer 3

www.harvesting.org

or, the Spanish version of the same mission.

www.gentenoble.org

http://www.mfh-elsalvador.org/

These are a couple sites for children's homes in El Salvador.  I was a missionary at the first for a year.  Children's lives in El Salvador are like that of children around the world living in third world countries.  I met a lot of sad stories, but there was a lot of hope too.