[NYTr] Ecuador's "Free Children" Project to Get Kids Out of Moms' Jails
 
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:27:14 -0500 (CDT)


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Ecuador's "Free Children" Project to Get Kids Out of Moms' Jails

Quito, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador launched the "free children"
project on Thursday to prevent, by late 2008, that children live in
jails with their mothers who are serving sentences.

Manuel Martinez, director of the National Children and Family Institute
(INNFA), said authorities already negotiating with those mothers to
improve their standard of living.  The children, whose numbers he did
not specify, range in age from 1 to 15.

Martinez said the project also involves a personalized health care,
education, recreation, housing and nutrition plan.

If the child stays with relatives there will be $100 monthly for
staples, plus transportation, clothing and medication.

The program involves the Ministry for Social and Economic Inclusion,
the INNFA and Vice President Lenin Moreno Garces.

A second program with the governments of Chimborazo, Cotopaxi,
Tungurahua, Bolivar and Imbabura Provinces, mostly of indigenous
people, will target child trafficking and child labor.

The goal is to raise awareness to prevent support to mendicancy, and to
foster education, health and labor programs plus family and child
support.

Nearly 5,000 children will start this program to run on an annual
budget of $1 million.

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