Regions: Africa   Asia   Latin America


Name of Organization: Servicios Integrales para el Desarrollo (SIDES)

Country: Bolivia

Project Title: "Academia de Deportes y Oficios para niños y adolescentes del trópico de Cochabamba" ("Academy for Sports d Training for Children and Adolescents of Trópico de Cochabamba")

Project Timeframe: 6 months (starting June 1, 2005)

Location of Project: Chapare, tropic of Cochabamba- Bolivia

Budget Amount: $10,000

NGO contact and website:
René Caballero Aguilar
c. Calama No. 288 esquina Hamiraya, Edificio "Belén," Piso 3
Cochabamba, Bolivia
E-mail: sides_cbba@yahoo.es

Project's Primary Objective: Strengthen formal and transitional education systems that encourage working children and those at risk of working to attend school.(Secondary objective: ensure the long-term sustainability of anti-child labor efforts).

Description of Organization: "Servicios Integrales para el Desarrollo" (SIDES) is a private, non-profit institution of social development, created in 1983 in the city of Cochabamba. The NGO serves local organizations and social sectors, rural communities and municipal governments, and aims to help the economic development, social promotion, education, integral formation and optimization of human groups, social organizations and public and/or private entities.

Description of Project funded by CIRCLE: Children and youth who live in the Chapare region are exposed daily to danger and violence, due to the production of coca. It is common to have school activities suspended. The most worrying fact, however, is that they are motivated to be involved from early age in coca activities. The CIRCLE project proposes alternative activities, though the creation of an Academy of Soccer and an Academy of Occupations, to gain the interest of children, adolescents and youths of the region. These programs also preserve their physical and moral integrity, motivate their interest in studying and school, and prepare them to develop an appropriate economic activity in the immediate future.

Project Targets (Common Indicators):
Enrollment: 80 children
Persistence: 80%
Transition: 70%
Completion: 10%