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Save the Children members started working in Nicaragua in 1981, motivated by the widespread poverty and the failure of the children rights’ fulfillment. Other members joined in the late eighties in order contribute relieve the situation of the children affected by the war conflict, and to counteract the negative effects in children of the macroeconomic adjustment programs, the neoliberal policies and disasters during the nineties (Mitch Hurricane in October 1988).