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Name of Organization: Fundación Comunitaria "Centro de Información y Recursos para el Desarrollo" (CIRD)

Country: Paraguay

Project Title: "Reducción del Trabajo Infantil en las Ciudades de Mariano Roque Alonso y Limpio" ("Reduction of Child Labor in the Cities of Mariano Roque Alonso and Limpio")

Project Timeframe: 12 months (Starting June 1, 2005)

Location of Project: Limpio and Mariano Roque Alonso

Budget Amount: $36,810

NGO contact and website:
Avda. Mariscal López Nº 2.029 esquina Acá Carayá
Asunción, Paraguay
Phone: 595 21 207-373
E-mail: milychoy@cird.org.py

Project's Primary Objective: Strengthen formal and transitional education systems that encourage working children and those at risk of working to attend school.

Description of Organization: Since 1988, CIRD has created, articulated, and managed local capabilities and resources through the promotion and facilitation of civil society initiatives. The NGO mobilizes and manages resources and information in an opportune and efficient way to develop cooperation mechanisms among individuals, institutions and national and international organizations to attain social and economic progress in Paraguay. CIRD is recognized locally by its project administration activities, its mobilization of resources and capacity, and its transfers of information in a useful and opportune way. CIRD coordinates with national and international sources and brings information back to the local area, so that institutions and organizations are able to use these resources effectively to the development and improvement of local welfare.

Description of Project funded by CIRCLE: CIRD's CIRCLE project includes a new perspective on the eradication of child labor from the streets through education and inter-sectoral alliances, within a sustainable strategy that goes beyond the life of the project. It focuses on the construction of social capital and on strategic collaboration. The project is being developed in the district of Limpio y Mariano Roque Alonso of the Central Department, which has one of the greatest numbers of poor people in the country. The project seeks to strengthen local inter-sectoral alliances that protect childhood, with economic resources, trust values, reciprocity and solidarity. The community's main social actors construct the solutions, identifying where and how children can be reintegrated into their schools, using the existing structures. The networks will act as a "collaboration alliances" between the Municipal Government (through its Child and Adolescent Municipal Council), the local education centers (these depend on the Ministry of Education and Culture), the private business sector, social and religious organizations, families, and the boys and girls that now work in the streets. The participation of the Municipal Government and its leadership will provide legitimacy and sustainability to the project.

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