Advocacy and Services to Children Working as Garbage Collectors and their Families, Uruguay
Children who work as garbage collectors in a low-income area of Montevideo, Uruguay, along with members of CWS partner, Gurises Unidos. Photo: Rosa Lavecchia/CWS |
Civil Association Gurises United (GURISES)
Children United
Part of CWS's Regional Program on Vulnerable Children and Youth, this project supports the efforts local civil society organizations to have garbage collection declared as one of the worst forms of child labor in Uruguay. The project is also urging the government to create programs to protect children who are working as garbage collectors and to assist their families (some 9,000 people). The project itself is assisting 30 families in one urban slum, so their children can return to school.
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