We increased the visibility of the efforts given by the institutions and organizations in the fight for a healthy youth and against the teenage pregnancy, through:

• Information: on our website, media and personal contact we give information about the options to have a healthy youth, how to avoid risks and what to do if you are a teenage mom.
• Events: we organize events, contests, etc., in order to make our work and our allies’ work known, as well as providing specific opportunities to young people through prizes.

Also, linked to our website and our commitment to our allies’ activities, we We are accountable to our donors about the correct use of their donations by the entity to which they want to benefit.

Tejedores de Sueños Foundation grants scholarships to high school young people, with the purpose of letting them fulfill their dreams and achieve full development of their capacities, not letting the economic situation of their families to be an impediment to this achievement.

Not-for-profit foundation working in urban marginal communities in order to provide food, and academic and psychological support to promote equal opportunities for children from families with scarce resources. Opening its doors in 1995 with a canteen, it actually owns three canteens (for over 600 children), a Food Bank (7 organizations) and a School Attention Program (for 260 children and teenagers). Resulting in a 95% academic success rate, the Foundation not only provides solutions for food problems, but also changes the children’s life through education, values and spiritual conscience.

Is a not-for-profit Charity work that not only provides food to the boys and girls, but also protects their physical, psychological and intellectual integrity. Its mission is to protect physical, psychological and spiritual integrity of the children by providing them comprehensive support, in food, education and human development. Safeguarding the rights and duties of childhood and youth, it promotes equality of opportunities for their personal and social development.

We are a not-for-profit sports association, seeking to welcome the children and youngsters through sports, in order to keep them far from drugs and illicit activities. We work with cultural and environmental activities in such a way that they learn good values, like discipline, friendship, teamwork, love for the environment. Also, we motivate study as a fundamental part of this project. Currently, we take in children and youth in high social risk situations, from different neighborhoods in Limón and, especially, Cieneguita.

Taekwondo School. This school teaches martial arts as a way of living, with a special focus on values and lots of discipline. Young people have the opportunity to participate in championships and tournaments within the country. They aim at integrating many young people in situations of risk, so that through sports they can remain intact and with clear goals for the future. Likewise, the values of the martial arts are a guide in their personal life.

Fruktus is a Foundation that was born as an initiative of three Costa Rican companies dedicated to the cultivation and exportation of pineapples and bananas in the region, which seek to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the employees, their families and the inhabitants of neighboring communities. The Foundation focuses in education (in general and environmental) and in leadership development. They grant scholarships to 70 young people within primary, high school and university. Also, from their efforts, Duacarí Textile Villa was born, a textile business formed by women entrepreneurs from the zone.

We are an NGO dedicated to suporting migrant children and teenagers in our country. We believe in strengthening learning processes through accompaniment by tutors and ludic acitivities that motivate continued learning.

The Unit for Educational Permanence, Reinsertion and Success (UPRE) has been working on reducing exclusion, with encouraging results from the first half of 2019 on, when the historic national minimum of 2,8% exclusion in secondary schools was achieved.

UPRE is the ministerial entity in charge of coordinating efforts relating to student exclusion in the country. Originally working with 269 priority colleges with high levels of excluded persons, they are now present in all public colleges of the country.

Parque La Libertad (Freedom Park), is a project for human safety and social inclusion, which seeks to improve the quality of life of the nearby communities, through economic, social and environmental development. Our mission is to be an auto-sustainable and inclusive public space with a varied offer of excellence and quality, thus constituting an integrating force which, together with the communities around it, enhances their social, economic and environmental development.

The Koryo academy uses taekwondo to improve social inclusion by promoting sports practice among the children and youth, and preparing them academically, focusing on the symbiosis between both parts.