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Ambassador Watt at the Ceremony Announcing DOL’s Child Labor Education Initiative (Project Destino)

DOL’s Child Labor Education Initiative (Project Destino)

Many of Panama’s poor and indigenous children must help their families by working on farms, limiting their educational development and lifelong opportunities. To combat these effects, three Panamanian organizations—Casa Esperanza, Fundamujer and Fundacion Tierra Nueva—are teaming up to provide nonformal and flexible education opportunities for 7,100 child laborers. “All three NGOs will join efforts communicating the needs and human rights of working children and children at risk of becoming workers, to the families, school communities and regional and national authorities. The combination of experiences of these the three partners will result in changing the destiny of our working children, and of the destiny of children at risk of becoming “working children,” said Melinda West de Anguizola, project manager of DESTINO. (complete text)

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