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| UNESCO and Ricky Martin Foundation sign Memorandum of Understanding for child protection |
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News 6 of 6
 UNESCO and the Ricky Martin Foundation (RMF), which defends the well-being of children around the world in the spheres of social justice, education and health, have joined forces on a global initiative to safeguard children against exploitation and abuse.
Within the framework of UNESCO’s “Education of Children in Need” Programme – which implements 20 to 50 field projects each year and is financed exclusively by private donations – the aim of this initiative is to help children suffering from trauma to regain their dignity and autonomy by providing the ways and means to access basic services and rights such as education, health, housing, care and leisure.
The first step will be to strengthen the “Navega Protegido Campaign”, launched by the RMF and Microsoft to promote child safety online and shield children from dangers such as child pornography, sex predators and identity theft. Educational material regarding hazards in cyberspace will be distributed to children and teachers of the UNESCO Associated Schools Network in Latin America and the Caribbean.
A specific project to be announced later by the partnership will also be developed for Puerto Rico, the birthplace of singer Ricky Martin. This project, supported by the RMF, will promote artistic education as a rehabilitation tool. It will address the same issues as a similar project which is also under the UNESCO Programme “Education of Children in Need”, and has been operating successfully in Brazil for the past six years, thus promoting South-South solidarity.
A Memorandum of Understanding between the RMF and UNESCO was signed on Thursday 5 May in Paris, in the presence of Ricky Martin, Angel Saltos (President of the Foundation), Andrew Koss (representative of the Permanent Mission of the United States of America to UNESCO) and Françoise Pinzon-Gil (Education of Children in Need programme specialist).
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Photo: Angel Saltos, President of the Ricky Martin Foundation, Ricky Martin and Françoise Pinzon-Gil of UNESCO / © C. Bailleul - UNESCO
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22-05-2006 |
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