By Patricia Gonzalez | Project Leader
Spring is gone, but it brought new opportunities and new beginnings! With May just around the corner, it is time to start thinking about where we will be heading in the second season of the year. First and foremost, we are grateful for the wonderful support that thanks to GlobalGiving we are able to receive from you, our dear donors and supporters, whose commitment continues to inspire our work.
We highlight the most relevant events of the quarter:
General Assembly 2022
In March we held the ordinary General Assembly, at which the Annual Management Report was delivered, with a detailed report on the most relevant and critical issues of the operation from the technical, administrative and financial areas. It was an acceptable balance with several concerns regarding the challenges that exist locally and globally in the complex system of protection in boarding homes. The trend is that the work must migrate towards prevention through intervention with the family and move away from residential care. We will slowly but surely move in that direction.
Strengthening Process for Social Organizations
With this in mind, we have taken on the challenge of participating in a project to strengthen social organizations led by Compartamos con Colombia, an expert entity in accompanying continuous improvement processes for social organizations. This is a process of training and appropriation of strategic knowledge and strengthening of organizational capabilities in order to acquire best practices and increase the impact and sustainability of our organization
Attention to families
Through the family strengthening program, we continue to offer a service of attention, accompaniment, management and training, aimed at improving the skills of parents and guardians of our children to ensure proper family reintegration. Weekly workshops are held on empowerment of family roles and identification of authority figures, with emphasis on respect for the female figure. Of a total of 391 families linked to the program, 25% reported incomes of less than one minimum wage, which keeps them at risk for being located below the poverty line, a fact that increases the likelihood of the child or children going out to the street due to the prevailing unmet needs.
Allies always present
Stryker, one of the leading companies in medical technology aimed at improving the quality of life of patients, visited Nuevo Amanecer in an innovative and loving volunteer day. As part of their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy, they carried out a wonderful activity in which children learned the importance of self-care to prevent bone injuries during their daily lives and sports activities. 20 volunteers brought an inspiring message that opened the children's eyes to new possibilities in the construction of their life projects.
Our children who attend the Nuevo Horizonte school, which is supported by the Price Philanthropies Foundation's Aprender y Crecer program, received their school kits. Showing them off is a motivation that makes them happy to start their school day every morning!
An artist with incredible potential
At the end of this month, Alexander Mueses leaves our St. Patrick's program after 7 years of process and starts his independent life. Following the principles of formation from our SER philosophy, he found the area of performance that makes him happy and for which he has an incredible talent. He graduated from the Universidad del Bosque as a plastic artist and has in mind to return to Ipiales Nariño, his hometown, where he extracted all the cultural richness to expose it in the sculptures he makes for the Carnival. He finished a specialization in management and cultural management at the Javeriana University in Cali, because his dream is to contribute to the artistic development of his region and the country.
We close with this inspiring success story that illustrates HOW IMPORTANT OUR WORK IS AND IS TESTIMONY TO THE AMAZING RESULTS OF the unconditional support and generous contributions of EACH ONE OF YOU so that our children, teenagers and young adults can achieve their dreams and see the world in a different way.
Receive a very special greeting from Papá Jaime and everyone at Niños de los Andes
All the best,
Patricia González
Community Relations Manager
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