Painting Butterflies

Remember Silvia? We featured her recently during our Kaya Challenge series, but wanted to share even more about this wonderful girl in the Kaya Center!

Silvia just turned 8 years old last month. She has a passion for learning and is extremely hardworking, often asking the teachers at the Kaya Center for more practice math problems or spelling and sentence construction exercises. However, her passion is for arts and crafts. From finger painting to beads and macaroni, she loves being creative and incorporating her favorite animals, “osos” (bears) and “mariposas” (butterflies), into her work. In her world, mariposas have eyebrows. Silvia just finished her latest masterpiece, created at the Kaya Center!

Kaya UNICEF Project Partnership

The Bolivia UNICEF office and the Bolivian Vice-Secretary of Citizen Security posted a public invitation to carry out a consultancy with the purpose of creating an “Integral and intersectional model for prevention and attention for children and adolescents on the streets.” This measure has come about by a request from NGO networks that work with children on the streets that have identified times when there has been a lack of public policies that will guarantee appropriate attention for the kids. With this consulting project, the idea is to answer this need by generating public policies focused on Human Rights, establishing coordinating mechanisms between the different actions of the State and civil society organizations.

Kaya Children International, along with the CDEA, was given the consultancy. The first phase has two steps: firstly to co-construct a model with all of the actors, from four regions in the country, that intervene in serving children and adolescents in the street, secondly the implementation of the model in one or two regions. As an institution, we will achieve political and public impact, as well as having up to date information that will benefit the way we carry out our own programs, continuing with the objectives set out in our strategic plan.

I'm Thankful For...

the books in the library. I really like the Clifford books. -- Jorge

The kids at Kaya love to read, and most of the books in the library are well-loved with worn pages from constant reading. Help keep our shelves filled with books and stories for the kids to explore.

I'm Thankful For...

for my Kaya family. I have people who look out for me and love me. I also have had many great experiences that I used to not think I could have. -- Nico

I'm Thankful For...

having a warm house to live in. -- Hector

$1,000 will pay a house parent’s salary for 2 months. Being a house parent is a 24/7 job. House parents live in the houses with our boys and help cultivate a strong, positive family environment.

I'm Thankful For...

going to school everyday. My favorite subject is math. I'm learning addition and subtraction now! -- Sandra

$5000 will cover the annual school fees for 40 children. Your support gives kids like Sandra the opportunity to get an education.

I'm Thankful For...

having people who care for me. I am also thankful that my brother is here with me and that I can take care of him. -- Adrian