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The World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child 2002:
Casa Alianza
The entrance to Casa Alianza
Casa Alianza is a division of a big American organisation that helps children and young people in several parts of the world. Casa Alianza is the division that works in Central America.

Casa Alianza operates children’s homes in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua and takes care of children who live on the streets or support them-selves and their families through different kinds of work on the streets. Casa Alianza also accepts children who have been beaten at home. Casa Alianza has lawyers who protest and take action when children have been beaten or killed. Right now, many young people are murdered in Honduras. Casa Alianza protests against this and tries to get the rest of the world to take notice of it.
It is the goal of Casa Alianza for children and young people to be reunited with their parents.

> Visit Casa Alianza
Why has Casa Alianza been awarded?
Casa Alianza received The World’s Children’s Honorary Award 2002 for its struggle for children’s rights in Central America. Through its’ work on the streets Casa Alianza has succeeded in convincing many street children to give up their dangerous lives on the streets and try to build a new, drug-free life at the Casa Alianza’s children’s homes. The children’s homes are also open to children who are poor or abused. The goal is that the children should get an education, and be able to move back home and live with their parents again. Casa Alianza was also awarded for its important work in building opinion against violence directed against children and young people.
Ana sitting in the street
The street-child Ana from Guatemala. She is one of children in Central America who sniff glue and live as beggars or criminals instead of staying with their families...
Karen with a teddy bear

Karen ran away
Twelve year-old Karen sits outside the Casa Alianza home in Honduras’s capital and calls out: – Let me in!
She ran away yesterday, has begged, sniffed glue and slept outside. Now she regrets it and wants to come back to the home for street children.

> Meet Karen
 

portrait Mario

Mario kidnapped
The 12 year-old Indian boy Mario in Guatemala has been through many hard times. His little brother was kidnapped and has disappeared. He himself was locked into a cold-storage room several times when he was a street child. And tricked by a dangerous man who sells children to foreign countries.

> Meet Mario

Ever showing his skull ring

What is your favourite belonging?
Street-children from Central America tells about their favourite belongings. Ever really love his scull ring!

> My best belonging!



Casa Alianza's logotype, a white dove in a hand
The symbol of Casa Alianza
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