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12/06/2013
Fundación Telefónica aims to ensure there is one socially aware person in the world for every child labourer
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The World Day Against Child Labour, established by the International Labour Organization (ILO), is celebrated every year on 12th June to decry the situation faced by 215 million children worldwide.
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05/06/2013
Fundación Telefónica presents a study on child labour in Guatemala
Eradication of child labour Institutional events Guatemala
215 million children work worldwide, of whom nearly one million work in Guatemala. Fundación Telefónica through its Proniño programme has been able to help more than 432,000 children in 14 countries to leave child labour behind and aspire to a better life in Latin America.
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21/05/2013
Fundación Telefónica supports the fight against child labour in Mexico
Eradication of child labour Institutional events Mexico
Fundación Telefónica presents the exhibition “La Hora del Recreo: Erradicar el trabajo infantil en Latinoamérica” in Jalisco. Local authorities took advantage of the opening ceremony of the exhibition to announce a constitutional amendment to delay the age of entry into the labour market.
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03/05/2013
“Contributions to change”, another step towards the elimination of child labour in rubbish dumps in Uruguay
Eradication of child labour Institutional events Uruguay
Fundación Telefónica and the Ministry of Social Development have signed an agreement to organise courses aimed at raising public awareness regarding the need to eradicate child labour in waste collection and sorting
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04/03/2013
Fundación Telefónica begins its activities in Costa Rica with education, technology and enterprise projects
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The projects, which will be carried out in alliance with Fundación Omar Dengo and Visión Mundial, are in line with the initiatives of the Ministry of Public Education and the Ministry of Work and Social Security.
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01/03/2013
The Educational Quality Improvement System is now present at 10 Proniño schools in Panama
Eradication of child labour Institutional events Panama
Fundación Telefónica Panama, in an alliance with Fe y Alegría, is implementing the Educational Quality Improvement System in ten educational centres where the Proniño programme operates.
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19/02/2013
A new academic year gets under way in the schools in Guatemala where Fundación Telefónica is present
Eradication of child labour Institutional events Guatemala
The Guatemalan Minister of Education, Cynthia del Águila, chaired the ceremony marking the start of the school year which took place at Escuela Salud Pública, zone 17, in Guatemala City
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14/02/2013
“Working together to eradicate child labour”
Eradication of child labour Institutional events Panama
In Panama, Fundación Telefónica and CETIPPAT have awarded prizes to the winning projects of the competition“Unidos por la erradicación del trabajo infantil” (“Working together to eradicate child labour”), an initiative aimed to raise awareness in the media about this problem. The award ceremony was attended by Marta Linares de Martinelli, the First Lady of the Republic of Panama.
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09/01/2013
LACTI Network: The Largest Network Against Child Labour
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The 4th International Conference Against Child Labour joins the existing LACTI Network to create the largest community fighting this social problem
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22/10/2012
Athlete Chema Martinez gets involved in "Vive Fundación Telefónica" at a school in Caracas (Venezuela)
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"Vive Fundación Telefónica" is an activity created to offer different public figures the chance to become acquainted first-hand with Proniño, Fundación Telefónica's most important social action programme.
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