This project was created taking into account the existing need to ensure that young women in Ecuador have all the tools and understand the importance of having a healthy and responsible sexuality. We believe that achieving this goal is crucial for the development of a country with a promising future.

The problem of teenage pregnancies and the spread of STDs, with all the baggage they entail, is a factor that plays a very strong role in the social problems of a society such as Ecuador’s.

We believe that sex education is an issue that should be given greater relevance and recognize the great potential it has as a tool for the prevention of deep social problems that contribute to increased poverty.

Among the problems that could be avoided in the case of having an adequate and efficient sex education are:

• Birth of children in an inadequate and unprepared family, economic, social and emotional environment.
• Dropout of adolescents from school due to unwanted pregnancies.
• Relegation and rejection of single mothers by their families and society.
• Increased infection rates of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, including HIV and HPV.

Despite the efforts of the Ministry of Education, there seems to be no significant decrease in the number of unwanted pregnancies among adolescents and the transmission of STDs, HIV and HPV.

This project is one of prevention that is much more cost/benefit if we take into account the costs to society for each child born of an unwanted pregnancy or the costs for diagnosis and treatment for STDs in general and specifically for HIV and HPV.

The project contemplates a single expense of less than 25 USD per young person, which allows the prevention of all these problems while strengthening social awareness and laying the foundations for a structure that in the long term will eradicate the rates of disease transmission and unwanted pregnancies, not only in adolescents but in the community in general.