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Celebrating International Women’s Day with CENIT...

Throughout the year, CENIT carries out regular activities to educate, protect, and promote the rights of children, adolescents, and women in vulnerable communities. Alongside this ongoing work, special events provide meaningful opportunities to engage the wider community and strengthen awareness of key issues.

As part of International Women’s Day, CENIT organised a community walk in the Camal Chiriyacu Market sector and surrounding areas. Girls, boys, adolescents, their families, and the CENIT team came together to share a clear message: women’s rights must be respected and protected.

Each step of the walk invited reflection, highlighted the value of women in society, and encouraged collective action toward a more just, dignified, and equal world. The event helped raise awareness across the community about gender equality and the importance of safeguarding the rights of women and girls.

CENIT remains committed to education, advocacy, and promoting the protection and restoration of these rights, because when a woman moves forward, society as a whole advances.

We are deeply grateful to our donors for making both CENIT’s ongoing programmes as well as special initiatives like this possible. Your support helps us continue building safer, more equitable communities for all.

CENIT’s annual summer camp was its usual success and we are delighted to share the impact it has had on more than 150 girls and boys in situations of vulnerability and child labour. Children from CENIT's programmes and from the the Chiriyacu Camal and San Roque markets spent the holiday period enjoying activities designed to give them safe, creative, and enriching experiences away from the burdens of household chores and work.

Throughout the camp, they took part in art and play-based sessions, visited the Parque del Calzado, and benefitted from the support of CENIT's staff and the tailored activities they organised. These are designed to help build social and emotional skills while promoting peaceful interaction and the right to play, learn, and dream. These activities offered the children much-needed respite during the school break and helped reduce the time they would otherwise have spent working.

Thanks to the generous support of Multicines, the children also enjoyed a free trip to the cinema, an unforgettable experience for many who had never seen a film on the big screen. A visit to the Museo de la Ciudad de Quito (Quito City Museum) opened a window into local history and culture, sparking curiosity and nurturing their interest in learning.

With the summer camp now finished, CENIT have returned to their regular year-round activities, including educational support, psychosocial care, and daily safe-space activities in the markets. The confidence and connections the children built during the holidays are already strengthening their engagement in the ongoing programmes. Next they will be gearing up for the Christmas celebrations, so somehing else to look forward to!

CENIT expressed their gratitude to donors, volunteers, and partner institutions. As GlobalGiving donors too, your support makes it possible for children in vulnerable circumstances to enjoy safe, joyful holiday experiences and to continue accessing the protection, learning opportunities, and encouragement they deserve throughout the year.