Purpose
Purpose
Valiente addresses the significant challenges faced by children and adolescents in Colombia, especially in regions impacted by over 60 years of armed conflict. These young people face severe restrictions on their freedoms and rights, limiting their autonomy, development, and social participation. Gender inequalities further exacerbate these obstacles.
Valiente empowers these youth through five strategic pillars: fostering reflective thinking, promoting social innovation, encouraging community participation, providing peer education on sexual and reproductive rights, and strengthening protection networks involving families, teachers, and institutions, focusing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
A key achievement of Valiente has been redefining sexuality as a core aspect of identity, breaking down misconceptions and resistance to sexuality education. This shift allows young people to receive essential knowledge, empowering them to defend their rights and those of others.
Valiente’s impact transcends individual growth; it serves as a catalyst, inspiring communities to question entrenched social structures. This, in turn, contributes to the reduction of unwanted pregnancies and gender-based violence, and the promotion of sustainable social and economic development in Colombia’s most vulnerable areas
We offer children and adolescents the tools so that they can be agents of change in their communities,
defending their own Sexual and Reproductive Rights and and changing their communities
