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The Uruguayan Network for the Right to Live in a Family and a Community (Red por el Derecho a la Convivencia Familiar y Comunitaria) was launched in April 2012 with support from RELAF and UNICEF.  The network aims to preserve children's family and community ties and keep children in families.  

Buckner Peru is an NGO that works to protect the rights of vulnerable children, particularly through family and community strengthening initiatives that aim to prevent child abandonment.    

The Paraguayan Foster Care Network is made up of civil society organizations: NGOs Corazones por la Infancia and Enfoque Niñez, and the childhood government authority, represented by the “Center of Adoptions” of the Paraguayan childhood governmental body to work towards the fulfillment of de-institutionalization processes in Paraguay.  

JUCONI Foundation, a nonprofit organization, was founded in the city of Puebla in 1989 through the efforts of Sarah Thomas de Benítez, Joanna Wright de Serra and Gabriel Benítez. Together they joined efforts concentrated toward a single commitment: to make JUCONI an organization that would attend children in street situations in a professional way. JUCONI works in Mexico to tackle the social exclusion of children and families from poor and violent homes. JUCONI is a member of …

ChildLinK works towards the protection of children against abuse and exploitation, including physical, sexual, emotional, neglect and commercial. ChildLinK aims to strengthen protection networks, systems, policies, procedures and approaches for further impact on the cause.

KidSave Colombia is a foundation that runs initiatives to support children in alternative care.  

ABTH works to prevent family separation and to provide temporary foster care solutions for children in need. ABTH is a member of Family for Every Child. Phone Number: +55 (21) 2524-1073 or 2544-0259  

The Latin American and Caribbean Network for the Defense of the Rights of Children and Adolescents is a network of national networks and non-governmental organizations for children and adolescents in the Latin America and Caribbean region that are dedicated to active participation in the defense of the rights of children and adolescents in the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Latin America and Caribbean regional office of UNICEF is located in the Panama City where it coordinates and supervises the work of UNICEF in 35 countries and territories through 24 country programs to ensure that all children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean can know and exercise their rights.