Initiatives

_ – PH 15 Foundation
_ – Building Bridges for Life
_ – Street children and adolescent comprehensive approach program, Rio Cuarto, Province of Córdoba, Argentina
PH 15 Foundation

PH15 is a social practice using photography to connect marginalized youngsters and children with the rest of society. The students, who live in the Villa 15, Villa 20 and Barrio San Isidro slums, also called “Ciudad Oculta” (Hidden City), in Buenos Aires, learn how to use visual arts to communicate their histories, perceptions and emotions. In 2007 and 2008 the photographs generated by Ph15 students where exhibited both in Argentina and abroad at the following venues: the Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires; Carlitos Café, New York; Fotosur 07, Venezuela; the Memory Museum, Rosario, Province of Santa Fe, Argentina; the University of Las Vegas, Nevada.
_ -[PH 15 video presentation->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5S1j1PCdTg#] _ – [Web site->http://www.ph15.org.ar/]

Building Bridges for Life

This initiative is being developed at the Maternity and Infant Care Service of the Luis Lagomaggiore Public Hospital, in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. Given its specialization (pregnancy, labor, puerperium and high-risk newborn care), it is a maximum complexity referral centre, receiving patients lacking any type of heath care insurance from vulnerable sectors throughout the Province of Buenos Aires. From this space, FUNDACER is dedicated to assisting in cases of premature births through strategies aimed to humanize health care of the high-risk newborn babies and their families (an average 1000 families a year), eliminating dehumanized maternity contributing factors and protecting and encouraging breastfeeding in order to reduce child mortality. ([Further information->http://www.elagora.org.ar/site/construyendo-puentes08.htm])

Street children and adolescent comprehensive approach program, Rio Cuarto, Province of Córdoba, Argentina

The activities in which most children living on streets are involved (mendicancy, street vending, car windscreen cleaning, etc) expose them to high-risk situations (abuse, sexual and economic exploitation, crime, addictions, physical and psychological violence, school dropout, diseases). The program seeks to reduce street time by improving the quality of life of these children and adolescents through the increase in the number of social, educational and recreational spaces where they can interact, having accomplished a public school attendance rate of 75% ([further information->http://www.elagora.org.ar/site/abordaje-integral08.htm]).