The ILCO is pleased to observe the impact that its day care center “Casa Abierta”, or Open House, is having in the La Carpio community. Inaugurated a year ago, this day care center offers a fully integrated program of child care, education, and proper nutrition to young children.
Nombre de autor: Comunicación y Relaciones
In this way, it alleviates the tremendous burden of low income families and single mothers, of finding reliable care for their children while the parents work. Today, these families can count on the center's safe and welcoming environment to help them guide their children's emotional and spiritual development, and strengthen their capacity to learn.
Mrs. Ana Yensy Rivera, the Director of La Carpio's Open House points out the following
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Under the theme, “Youth and HIV: For my Right to Know and Decide,” this Sixth Regional Gathering was inaugurated on March 1, in San Jose, Costa Rica. Its expressed goal is to give young people a protagonistic role in the defense of life, and in the struggle for lives freed of prejudice and discrimination.
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Costa Rica is the honored host for this year's CONCASIDA, an annual Central American congress that brings together representatives of government agencies, international partners, and individuals from civil society, to focus on the common goal of creating an inclusive world.
Members of the Costa Rica Lutheran Church´s youth group inaugurated a puppet theater called “Puppets for Justice”. These amusing characters visit communities and organizations to share experiences about various topics along their travels.
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The Costa Rican Lutheran Church (ILCO) began its first weekly Radio Program “Iglesia y Sociedad” (Church and Society), which took place on Thursday, September 3, 2009. This is an alternative space, which urges individuals and social organizations interested in defending the right to information to participate in its broadcasts.
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ILCO considers these programs a valuable platform for motivating grassroots actions for social change. This Radio Program is not only for distribution of information, but also for opening new avenues for mass communication, which were previously closed for social organizations.
In order to follow up with adopted initiatives concerning HIV/AIDS, a group of interrelated Latin American counterparts met for a third time in the city of Bahía, Brazil to discuss their common goal to combat ignorance, exclusion and discrimination.
Nombre de autor: Manuel Agüero. Programa VIH y sida
It is their hope to develop strategies and specific actions that each participating organization could adopt in order to successfully integrate the theme of HIV/AIDS into their respective agendas. This integrative initiative is referred to as the transversalization of HIV/AIDS.