TECHO is a youth-led non-profit organization present in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through the collaborative work of families living in extreme poverty with youth volunteers, TECHO seeks to overcome poverty in the slums. TECHO is convinced that poverty can be permanently eradicated if society as a whole recognizes poverty as a priority and actively works towards overcoming it. TECHO pursues three strategic objectives: 1) The promotion of community development in slums, through a process of community strengthening that, promotes representative and validated leadership and drives the organization and participation of thousands of families living in slums to generate solutions to their own problems; 2) Fostering social awareness and action, with special emphasis on generating critical and determined volunteers working with the families living in slums while involving different social entities; 3) Political advocacy that promotes necessary structural changes to ensure that poverty does not continue reproducing and that it begins to decrease rapidly.