Amir Mosquera is a 12-year-old boy who lives in the city of Quito, in the sector of La Biloxi. He studies in Unidad Educativa Quito Sur. He was born in Venezuela, and, like many more, arrived five years ago in Ecuador along with her grandmother, Belki Gómez.
Amir lost his mother in 2009 and his father in 2021. Amir’s father is Syrian, and he died in the war. His grandmother took care of him and his brother. Amir has many dreams, and he likes to draw in his free time. His grandmother does everything in her hands to support his grandson’s education because she knows that education is the road to his future.
His testimony, an experience shared by many children, details how education becomes a transformative factor for boys and male adolescents around the construction of their positive masculinities. At the same time, it shows how education is enabling the exercise of his rights.
Therefore, education must be considered from the gender perspective to make sure no one gets left behind.
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This video was launched on the occasion of UNESCO’s new, global report, Leave no child behind, boys' disengagement from education, and thanks to the collaborative work of the Office of UNESCO in Quito, the Iberoamerican Institute of National and Cultural Patrimony (IPANC, in Spanish) of the Andrés Bello Agreement, within the framework of the implementation of the multiannual program of resiliency from the Education Cannot Wait fund for educational inclusion of people in situations of mobility.