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About Yoga Pura Vida Foundation
Yoga Pura Vida Foundation (YPVF) was born from the arduous personal work of it’s creator, Dharmajyoti (Marcelo) and of the collaboration of many good people who helped him during his journey.
We are a non-profit foundation, independent of public, political and religious authorities, which has been working since 2013 supporting children, youth, vulnerable communities, individuals and groups suffering from mental, emotional and physical health disorders.
Our project focuses on sharing tools that promote a peaceful and gradual social and environmental change, generating new habits that help improve the mental and physical health of residents of Sierra Leone, and to create better living conditions in the present and possibilities to build with dignity, a fair and decent future.
Children in Sierra Leone face an array of interlinked obstacles which inhibit the fulfilment of their human rights. Most pressingly, children are at risk of early child marriage and adolescent pregnancy, child labour, female genital mutilation and gender-based violence. These risks, combined with systemic poverty, poor health conditions and educational challenges, endanger all children in the country.
Less than 50% of children complete secondary education, leading to a national literacy rate of less than 60% for the population under the age of 15. The infant mortality rate for children under the age of five is 96.3 per 1,000 live births and 35% of children in Sierra Leone are subject to child labour. Malaria is estimated to account for up to 20% of all child mortality.
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