The SUEZ Foundation in Mexico
Take a Child by the Hand Association ("Un Enfant par la Main") - Christian Children's Fund Mexico: program to train "mothers’ guides" and support infant children.
For two years, SUEZ Foundation has supported this project "to protect and encourage baby's first steps." The program to train "mothers’ guides" and support infant children is being carried out in the Northern Sierra region of the State of Puebla.
The program consists in training 75 women in areas that are all-important to early childhood: nutrition, hygiene, health care, education, and family violence. Following their training, these women become "mothers’ guides" within their community and have under their wings mothers of young children to whom they transmit their knowledge, with the aim of improving the development of their children. In addition, these mothers’ guides are responsible for evaluating the child-rearing skills of the mothers and the development of their children.
Implementation of this program has facilitated the development and fine-tuning of a unique new method for mothers’ guides to promote infant children’s development. This method can then be spread to other regions affected by poverty-related problems.
Association EDNICA
This association was created in 1989 to help children and young people living and working in the street and those in danger of becoming marginalized. The association’s program objective is to favor the development of these children while respecting their needs and rights.
Since 2007, SUEZ Foundation supports this program in the City of Xochimilco, south of Mexico City, in an area with some of the country’s highest concentrations of street children and young people. The project aims to provide an alternative to these marginalized Mexican children and youth by helping them to overcome their difficult living and social conditions through the creation of a new area therapy and prevention center.
