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The return on early education is 17 to 1: The Rand Corporation recently cited research demonstrating that the return to society for every dollar invested in early education was as high as US$17. Yet almost 40 percent of children in Latin America are not in early education programs.
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About ALAS

ALAS is a nonprofit organization created by the most prominent Latin American artists, business leaders and intellectuals to mobilize Latin-American society towards the implementation of integrated early childhood public policies, so that every child from zero to six years old has access to health plans, education and nutrition.

9 million Latin American children younger than 5 years old suffer of chronic malnutrition and 22 million don’t have access to education. Malnutrition and the absence of care in the early stages of life are the main mechanisms for the transmission of inequality. This is why experts agree that early childhood development is one of the most effective tools to end with the intergenerational cycle of poverty.

 
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