Historia de vida de un niño atendido por una ONG de la ciudad de Guayaquil en el año 2024.

Abstract

The research “Life history of a childcared for by an NGO in the city of Guayaquil in the year 2024” analyzed the experiences of a 12-year-old boy who lives and works in the northwest, an area marked by danger and delinquency, the family receives benefits from a local NGO, its work is oriented to look for alternatives for the children to continue schooling. To achieve the objectives, set, a qualitative methodology was used, focused on understanding the context of a child and his family who are involved in child labor and begging. One of the fundamental techniques was to conduct indepth interviews with the mother of the family and the responsible technician, the purpose of which was to explore in detail the life history, the influence of child labor on the life of the child and his family, and the strategies that the institution carries out with this group; the most representative results point to the lack of care and protection skills in the family, negligent actions, serious difficulties in establishing limits, problems in the internalization of rules and norms, affectation in the child at the behavioral level that transcends the family level, exposure to street behaviors, difficulties in the passage from childadolescent, in this problem other actors of the protection system must intervene to allow the child under investigation to have other alternatives that allow him/her to leave the risk situation.