Costa Rica: Fundación Paniamor

Fundación Paniamor

Fundación Paniamor

Fundacion Paniamor is a child-right centered Costa Rican, non-profit, non partisan, private organization, of a preventive and technical nature. It was created in 1987, and declared of Public Interest by the Costa Rican Government, in 1990. It organizes its work along three permanent programs: Violence Prevention, Political Incidence, and Social Development. Education and Applied Research are the key stones of Paniamor works.

Examples of Research Projects:

  1. Adolescent participation and the prevention of HIV/SIDA (2008)
  2. Adolescent uses and practices of ICT in Costa Rica (2008)
  3. Mapping crime tecnique applied to mapping the routes of child trafficking in Costa Rica (2005-08)
  4. The use of ITC in the reconstruction of community history by youngsters (2009) 

Contact Details:

FUNDACION PANIAMOR

P.O. BOX 376-2150

San Jose, COSTA RICA

Phone (506)22342993

Fax (506)22342956

Contact: Milena Grillo R.

Executive Director direccion [at] paniamor.org

Tags: Culture, technology, Violence, Children's rights, participation, Children in the legal system, Public policy, Sexual exploitation, Sexual behaviour and sexual health, Social exclusion and marginalisation, Youth, Mental health, HIV/AIDS, Children in conflict with the law, Discrimination, Migration