72m children fail to attend school worldwide. Colombia has 1.6m uneducated children, half of which work on the streets.

Our challenge is to denounce child labour in Colombia, but we faced a tactical problem: These children are not identified. We created a smartphone application that empowers every one to denounce child labour.

What people did was to activate the app when they saw a child working on the streets. They had to Geotag the child, take a picture and enter the child’s information; this was uploaded to a website exclusively accessible to Fundacion Telefonica.

We created a smartphone application that empowers every one to denounce child labour. What people did was to activate the app when they saw a child working on the streets. They had to Geotag the child, take a picture and enter the child’s information, this was uploaded to a website exclusively accessible to Fundacion Telefonica, enabling them to take the first step toward solving each case.

A few days after the launch of the app we went viral, and became a trending topic on Twitter, also we got the attention of the media. Thanks to the app and Fundación Telefónica, 1.276 children have already been identified and 67 are already off the streets. But, perhaps our most important achievement has been changing these children´s reality to give them back their dreams.