Why children are fleeing Honduras, and what UNICEF is doing about it paid UNICEFUSA
and given school, housing and job opportunities — even bus tickets. The overall goal is to reintegrate children safely into their home communities. But that's not always possible. If their homes are unsafe, UNICEF helps find an alternative living situation.
At Escuela Atena in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, UNICEF and Mujeres en las Artes staff create art projects and activities that help children process the trauma they've experienced.At Escuela Atenea in San Pedro Sula, UNICEF and Mujeres en las Artes create projects and activities aimed at helping children and adolescents use art to process feelings about the anxiety, violence and displacement they may be suffering. The children are encouraged to express their feelings in group paintings.
These girls attend the Miguel Paz Barahona School, in Bonitillo neighborhood of La Ceiba, where there has recently been so much gang violence that children were afraid to go to school.These girls attend the Miguel Paz Barahona School, in Bonitillo neighborhood of La Ceiba, where there has recently been so much gang violence that children were afraid to go to school and mothers were accosted and robbed after dropping off their kids. School attendance dwindled to just 60 students.
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