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PuentePuente

Centros Nútreme

The Puente program, called “Centros Nútreme”, intertwines two large components: one for initial care and education (Acompáñame a Crecer program of MINEDUC) and another for comprehensive community and family intervention (SEA component), which includes sanitation strategies , hygiene, family economy and agricultural activities.

Objective

Strengthen skills in Volunteer Educators, to promote the comprehensive and sustainable development of early childhood, as a strategy for the prevention of chronic malnutrition in the communities served.

Addressed to:

Mujeres
Pregnant women
Lactating women
Children from
0 to 4 years

Program components

Motor development
Parenting with love
Child protection
Sanitation
Family economy
Agricultural activities

Reached

Santa María Cahabón,
Alta Verapaz

48

Communities

48

Nútreme Centers

1,956

Kids

442

Educating Mothers

215

Pregnant women

San José Poaquil,
Chimaltenango

29

Communities

25

Nútreme Centers

794

Kids

167

Educating Mothers

54

Pregnant women

Total:

77

Communities

73

Nútreme Centers

2,750

Kids

242

Educating Mothers

609

Pregnant women

Component 1:
Initial Education Program "Acompáñame a Crecer"

del MINEDUC (Acuerdo gubernativo 239-2020)

It is an Initial education program that ranges from pregnancy to 4 years of life, from their family and community environment

Its approach guarantees the quality of care and the increase in coverage at the Initial Education level, because it guides families to learn how to educate, develop, protect children from home, promote children's rights. , mainly those concerning health, education, nutrition and protection.

This community approach, the essential characteristic of which is that each family educates their child, ensures that families assume their role as the first educators of their children, which promotes better early childhood development from the family context.

The program is run locally by Community Managers who will train volunteer Mothers Educators.

MODALITIES OF ATTENTION

44 training sessions per life stage.

Individual

Home visits
Children from 0 to 2 years of age.

Group

Established centers
Children 2 to 4 years of age.

Component 2:
Sanitation, Family Economy and Agricultural Activities (SEA)

Sanitation

Learning practices that improve hygiene conditions at home, reducing morbidities and promoting good practices for a change in the family environment; such as: safe water consumption, correct use of latrines, correct waste disposal.

Family Economy

Learning that improves and strengthens families' knowledge in budget and savings management practices, through local savings and credit associations -ALAC- contributing to economic empowerment in family groups.

Agricultural Activities

Learning at scale that promotes the availability and consumption of protein and horticultural crops of high nutritional value, through a strategy in which family groups will establish highly productive chicken coops and orchards in reduced spaces at the household level to diversify the diet.

Impact

The communities, through their Volunteer Educators, permanently accompany and monitor the integral development of the children in the “Centros Nútreme” achieving their self-sustainability.

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