Uruguayan Women’s Association of Florida (AMUF) is a nonprofit organization formed in 2002 to help improve conditions for children in Uruguay.

The effort of the Association focuses on hunger and education. We understand that solves s feed or as part of the problem. If we want a better future for all, it is essential that we worry about the education of children.

In Uruguay, nearly half of children are growing up hungry and unsatisfied basic needs. One in six teenagers are out of school.

With the continued support of AMUF several soup kitchens and socio-educational centers in Uruguay, it has been “off the streets” over one hundred-fifty children who provided, in addition to s food, social support, psych or gico and Eshcol to stico, clothing, shoes and school supplies.

Since 2002, the Uruguayan Women’s Association of Florida has sent seven containers with donations to children’s homes, hospitals and schools in underserved areas throughout the country. AMUF seeks the support of those who can provide. We accept donations of money, new or used clothing, toys, school supplies and medical equipment. We invite all those interested in participating in some way, who come to learn about events taking place, to work or to send us your donations.

“Another world is possible” was the theme of the third World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil in January 2005.

In AMUF bet that “another world is possible.” We believe in Uruguay without exclusion, in the context of a global society united and committed to the pursuit of a fairer world.”

The right to life is the right to work, food, health, housing, education, equality and participation. The right to basic material means to live with dignity.

How to help

Through the Program Children, Adolescents and Youth, The Abrojo socio-educational implements projects aimed at optimizing the potential for integration of Children, Adolescents and their families in situations of social exclusion. The program covers a population of 500 children participating in socio-educational proposals located in the suburbs of Montevideo.

“Donations received from AMUF, are a great encouragement to our work and a large concrete contribution to improving the quality of life of many children.” “The input received reaffirms the belief that through joint efforts in and out the country, may help reverse the poverty and exclusion experienced by a large sector of our children.”

Poverty in Uruguay

“In Uruguay, poverty tends to concentrate in the areas of younger population, particularly in children,” says a study by the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) in 2003. In a study conducted in Uruguay, there nine poor children per adult. Almost half (46.6 percent) of children and adolescents Uruguayans Alive in poverty.

“The situation (living in) street and child labor are visible faces of poverty” continues the study. “There is a strong association between adolescent work and dropping out of education: seven out of ten teenagers who work do not attend any educational institution.”