Prevention & Protection to Children Victims of Sexual Abuse, Brazil

Street girls in dance class.

Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT

Project Meninos e Meninas da Rua (PMMR)

Street Boys and Girls Project

Church World Service partner Meninos e Meninas da Rua (boys and girls of the street), in Brazil, is celebrating its 25th year of working with children and teenagers living on the streets.

Meninos e Meninas da Rua and the other programs that are part of the CWS Latin America and Caribbean Regional Program on Children and Youth work with urban poor children and youth who are at great risk--street and working children, and child victims or potential victims of sexual abuse, exploitation, and rights violations, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The programs are helping to educate and mobilize governments, communities, and families to respect, promote, and protect children's rights, and to provide vulnerable children with opportunities to move out of extreme poverty and escape violent situations.

Through the programs, children and youth gain educational support, health care, legal assistance, counseling, classes on parenting and life-skills, rights education, and recreational activities in sports, the arts, or at summer camp.

Your support for Church World Service helps make this program possible.

Updated 4/23/2008

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