All too often, they are ostracized by their families and leave school in an effort to seek income to support themselves. Juanfe provides these teen mothers with what they need most: empowerment, education, entrepreneurship, psychosocial intervention and healthcare.
The programs ensure that teen mothers are armed with the tools they need to succeed. The Foundation executes its programs through its headquarters, called the Social Center. Impact Delivered to Your Inbox Sign up to receive stories and updates from around the world. At its beginnings, the Foundation focused on reducing infant mortality.
In , the core focus changed to the empowerment of teen mothers, recognizing that when poor girls become mothers during adolescence, it is the key factor that deepens poverty. The foundation fulfils its purpose by providing comprehensive care in terms of health, psychological and emotional support, as well as technical training to generate a stable income and break the poverty cycle. The Juan Felipe Medical Center has attended to more than , patients since October , with an average of 1, patients per month.
Additionally, since the creation of the Employment and Entrepreneurship Office in , 1, teenage mothers have found a job and are currently generating an income. The Foundation's business and intervention model, called Degrees intervention, is innovative because it is approaching the teenage pregnancy problem in a holistic way: not focusing on only one dimension of the problem but on an array of dimensions — health, nutrition, job training, empowerment, psychology.
By working all these dimensions together, the foundation is helping teenage mothers have a higher probability of finding and keeping a steady job, therefore breaking the poverty cycle.
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