Rights and opportunities for adolescent and youth in Nicaragua

Countries:

Nicaragua

Start project:

2018

Donors:

Kerk in Actie

Partners:

TESIS-MAN

The current project builds on the accomplishments from previous projects that have received support from Kerk in Actie and ICCO. Therefore in 2018 TESIS will contribute to the reduction of violent and discriminatory practices, promoting gender equity with a rights-based approach through the cultural revitalization and empowerment of adolescents and young men and women in the indigenous and afro-descendant communities of Nicaragua.

Background

TESIS arises as a result of the efforts of a group of Nicaraguan and Dutch professionals who saw with concern in the early 1990s how the AIDS epidemic was a real threat to girls, boys and adolescents in and on the street , because of their ways of life they were in permanent risk of being infected by HIV / AIDS.