Photo Exhibition: Bolivia - Reaching Out to At Risk Adolescents

The role youth-friendly outreach services can play in alleviating poverty among at-risk adolescents is the focus of a photo exhibition to be held at the European Commission Office in Dublin in February 2010.

“Bolivia: Reaching out To At Risk Adolescents”, features 34 photographs documenting the lives of young people in Bolivia who benefit from an innovative programme called Most at Risk Adolescents (MARA).

In Bolivia, extreme poverty, discrimination, abuse and lack of familial support and social protection often force young people to spend their lives on the street. Local and national policies, strategies and services tend to exclude the needs of this group because they are perceived to be too complex or they are not deserving of care.