By Carolina Landucci | Executive Director
First of all, THANK YOU for your donations and on-going support for The Las Claras Program. Your actions have been key to continue with our program and together changing the life of many teen mothers.
It´s already been 6 years since we started the program! Las Claras started with the belief in the power of education and the effect that it would have on empowering teen moms. And with that in December `22 we graduated our ninth group of teen mothers. We are incredibly proud of everything our teen mothers have accomplished in all these years, 145 teen mother have graduated from our program, 30% of them working above minimum wage, 20% of them are currently in a university and we are sure that starting this 2023 we will bring change too many other lives as well.
All groups of Las Claras have also continued to receive a variety of workshops and classes, on top of the fixed syllabus that allows them to receive their high school diploma at the end of the year. One of their biggest personal improvements, is that they now feel empowered enough to talk publicly in defense of human rights issues. As you can see, we´ve come a long way during these past years. The teen mothers at the Las Claras Program have received care, education, and continuous support which allows them to find empowerment previously unknown to them. Still, the reality in our country is one that requires further action: only during 2021, there were 11,185 registered cases of teen and child pregnancy. And this number keeps on increasing, as every teen mom will most likely have a second child during the next 24 months. Worst of all, 75% of these girls will abandon schools. They will lack a plan for the future, self-esteem and confidence to pursue their dreams, a job to support themselves and their babies, and will add numbers to the cycle of poverty that pervades their environment.
Once more, we THANK YOU for your continuous support in this quest for a better quality of life for teen mothers and their children. PLEASE keep donating and invite others to join us in this quest with their donation!
More action still to come. Stay tuned :)
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