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	ALAS & CARTIER JOIN TO BENEFIT THE CHILDREN FROM OPERATION SMILE Ciudad de Panamá, June 11, 2009 – During the celebration ofCartier’s LoveDay, the prestigious boutique joins ALAS in its effort to mobilize Latin American society towards the implementation of early childhood development public policies by donating 10% of all the sales of the LOVE collection from the boutiques in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Panamá, Guayaquil and Puerto Rico to Operation Smile. Operation Smile is a nonprofit organization that with its voluntary medical network improves the lives and social integration of children with facial deformities such as cleft lips and cleft palates. This initiative is celebrated in an event at the Cartier Boutique in Ciudad de Panama with the participation of Stanley Motta, member of ALAS Board, Juan Antonio Pungiluppi, ALAS Executive Director, Christophe Maincourt, Cartier’s Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, the singer and member of ALAS Omar Alfanno and his wife Carmen Alfanno, and Beth Marshall and Arlene Arias from Operation Smile. This union is just another effort where ALAS and the private sector join to benefit the region’s early childhood. Read more

	ALAS signs an agreement with the government of the City of Buenos Aires to start the project “Centers for early Childhood, Education for Development”. Buenos Aires, May 1, 2009 – ALAS and the government of the City of Buenos Aires sign an agreement to start the project “Centers for Early Childhood”, which seeks to reach a total of 1.200 children younger than five and extend the educational coverage in the southern area of the city in a 20%.

	ALAS supports Obama’s initiative to invest in Early Childhood Development Washington D.C., December 2008 – ALAS announces its support to the President of The United States’ initiative of investing $10 billion dollars in Early Childhood Development through an open letter published in the most important Latin American news papers. In the letter, ALAS encourages the Presidents of the region to double their efforts towards making education universal.

	ALAS takes part in the XVIII Iberoamerican Summit of Chiefs of State San Salvador, October 25, 2009 – ALAS participates in the XVIII Iberoamerican Summit of Chiefs of State, where it obtains the support of the Summit for a Regional Program of Early Childhood, through a Special Communication about early childhood integrated attention signed by the Presidents of the Iberoamerican countries. Thanks to ALAS initiative, the necessities of those under the age of six are now part of the agendas of all the Presidents and Secretaries of Education of the region.

	ALAS & Columbia University Join Forces New York, September 24, 2008 – During the United Nations General Assembly week, ALAS gathers in a meeting at Columbia University the Presidents of Mexico, Argentina, El Salvador, Panama and Paraguay with the economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachs and Luis Alberto Moreno, Director of the IDB, to disseminate the need of designing early childhood integrated policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. The symposium, titled “The Children of Latin America: a Future without Poverty”, inspired the creation of a technical team formed by members of The Earth Institute and ALAS for the elaboration of concrete proposals for the Governments of Latin America and the Caribbean. Read Entire Story

	In the “Concert for the Children” ALAS introduces the topic of Early Childhood Development for the first time in a massive way. In May 2008 the “Concert for the Children”, a free public event, took place in Buenos Aires and Mexico City. It gathered in the same stage the most important Latin-American pop artists such as Ricky Martin, Maná, Shakira, Alejandro Sanz, Gustavo Cerati, Timbiriche, Juan Luis Guerra, Diego Torres, Calle 13, Chayanne, among others. An audience of more than 400,000 people and millions of viewers started, since that day on, to understand the specific needs of the population aged from zero to six.

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	ALAS and PAHO launch an immunization campaign in Haiti Washington D.C., May 2008 – ALAS and the Pan-American Health Organization organized what has been the biggest childhood and youth immunization campaign in Haiti. Wycleaf Jean, founder member of ALAS, took part of it by encouraging citizens to participate. The campaign expected to reach more than 1.8 million of kids and adolescents, contributing this way to the eradication of measles, rubella and congenital rubella in Haiti. Read story

	ALAS attends the V Meeting of Secretaries of Education “Hemispherical Learnings and Commitments for Early Education” Cartagena, November 19, 2007 – ALAS attends the V Meeting of Secretaries of Education “Hemispherical Learnings and Commitments for Early Education”, organized by the Integral development Council of the Organization of American States (OAS). The Secretaries of education agreed to build together a plan for the attention for children younger than six, which constitute a basis of an Early Childhood Development Program for Latin American and the Caribbean that will be promoted by ALAS.

	ALAS attends the Clinton Global Initiative New York, September 29, 2007 – ALAS announced during the Global Clinton Initiative a $40 million commitment from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation to help rebuild Peru and Nicaragua after the natural disasters they suffered, and a joint commitment to improve the quality of life of thousands of children through pilot project in Latin America.

	ALAS and the Red Cross International launch a fundraising campaign in benefit of the victims of Peru’s earthquake Panama City, September 4, 2007 – ALAS and the Red Cross International launch a fundraising campaign in Latin America, The United States, and Spain in benefit of the victims of Peru’s earthquake. América Móvil and Movistar donated the free numbers where donations were made, and more than 30 artists such as Miguel Bosé, Maná and Gustavo Cerati who put together their voices in public service announcements for the most important television networks and newspapers. Thanks to ALAS campaign, the Red Cross could help more than 70,000 affected families in Peru.

	ALAS and Ricardo Montaner launch with PAHO a childhood immunization campaign. Triple Frontera - ALAS and Ricardo Montaner launched, together with the Pan-American Health Organization, a childhood immunization campaign in the border of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil during the “Immunization week of the Americas”. The purpose of the campaign was to reach the indigenous families and the outlying towns of the three countries. Through this effort, ALAS supports PAHO in its efforts to improve health, specially the one of pregnant women and of children aged from zero to six years old.

	ALAS and Alejandro Sanz discuss with Argentina’s President, Nestor Kirchner, an alliance for education Buenos Aires - ALAS and Alejandro Sanz discuss with the Mr. Nestor Kichner, President of Argentina at the time, an alliance for education. This initiative takes place under the program ALA Escuela, ALAS education program that has the purpose of developing concrete actions to improve the access to education of the most vulnerable children in Latin America and the Caribbean, and their continuity in the system.

	ALAS and Juanes present to the IDB the “Public Agenda for Education” Guatemala, March 16 2007 – ALAS, represented by a delegation headed by Juanes, presents to the Interamerican Development Bank the “Public Agenda for Education”. As a product of the presentation, and later meeting with Luis Alberto Moreno, Director, a memorandum of understanding was signed between ALAS and the IDB.