The Alalay Foundation’s institutional model is based on the creation of Protective Environments, a strategy centered on children and adolescents as rights-holders and protagonists of their own development—a comprehensive model that seeks to guarantee the protection, promotion, and restoration of rights, placing children at the center of all interventions.

Based on this model, the Street, Protection, Prevention, Advocacy, and Sustainability programs are dynamically and complementarily coordinated, generating effective and sustainable responses to situations of neglect, violence, exploitation, and social exclusion: i) The Street Program facilitates initial contact with children and adolescents living in public spaces, building bonds of trust and facilitating their transition out of those situations; ii) The Protection Program offers therapeutic, educational, and care services in foster homes while working toward their family or social reintegration; iii) The Prevention Program strengthens protective factors through social-sports programs, workshops, art, and life skills; iv) Advocacy seeks to transform structures by promoting public policies and community actions that recognize children and adolescents as citizens with a voice. Finally, the pillar of v) Sustainability ensures the continuity of these efforts through partnerships, resource management, and local capacity building.

The Alalay Foundation’s institutional model is based on the creation of Protective Environments, a strategy centered on children and adolescents as rights-holders and protagonists of their own development—a comprehensive model that seeks to guarantee the protection, promotion, and restoration of
The entire model is grounded in a rights-based approach that incorporates gender, interculturality, participation, and social co-responsibility, creating environments where children and adolescents can grow, learn, and plan for their future with dignity. Since 1990, Alalay has been implementing this model in several cities across Bolivia, with tangible results in the lives of thousands of children, adolescents, young people, and families.