Garabato artistic workshop

Great period we just finished. Many children signed in for the 2013 project and they are making incredible progress. New children signed in this year for the program and they have been working on different activities. They have been making their own puzzles, 'rolled magazines' boxes, painting and drawing. During the...

After holiday season in Argentina (December and January) and well deserved resting period, children and staff are ready to kick off 2013 official activities. But before telling you the renewed plans, a quick update on what happened in the last months.The children finished 2012 in a great way. Attendance rates recorded 83%...

For the past months the kids have working on preparing decoration items for the party the foundation celebrates every year called “Mi Barrio” which means my neighborhood. The idea behind the creation of this items is that the kids can take ownership for the events the foundation organizes for the whole...

In this update about the e-learning program I can’t tell you too many new things about the content of the program itself; it is going very well. Our professor Celina is getting help from a great volunteer named Claudia, who is helping a lot.  As I mentioned in the last update, we rented a new space; a warehouse...

Last March we kicked off the activities in our new space. We rented a warehouse located between the two neighborhoods we are working with and turning it into 190sqm of happiness and social innovation. Currently we are renovating our place, so it’s still a bit empty, but the children are back and fill the space with...

It's summer in Argentina and in humid Rosario temperatures are reaching 38 degrees Celsius. Children are still in school holidays and there is not much activity in the city, everyone is having some relax time in the beach in Brazil or Argentina coast. But for us is completely different. We've rented a new place of 190sqm in...

Normally we end a project report with thanking you, but this time I would like to start with it: thank you so much for your support, you are truly making the difference!  I co-founded El Desafío when I was 20 years old. As a Dutch person I was shocked by the poverty I came across when visiting Argentina, and...

It's winter in Argentina. Normally this makes the attendance go down a bit, because rain and thunder storms turn some of the bad roads into pools of mud. But this year winter is not that bad and the children really enjoy the programs and make an extra effort to come. As we mentioned in the previous report, new children...

The beginning of the year has been very good, new children joined us and this forced us to split the groups in two (youngest to oldest children). The activities has been very interesting, kids are working with the theme 'helping to help', in where produce with their own hands things that can have an useful meaning for the...

Clarissa is a GlobalGiving In-the-Field Volunteer. She is visiting GlobalGiving's projects in South America and writing postcards to donors to let them know how their donations are having an impact. Read other postcards from the field here: http://www.globalgiving.org/inthefield/. “What does El Desafio mean...

After a fantastic end of the year, children are ready to start again activities after holiday season in Argentina. During January it was time to maintain our classroom and for that we've invited local artists that, together with the children, made a beautiful painting on one of the walls. It was fun and exciting, the kids...

  The children have been participating in the workshops with lot of enthusiasm. Besides the ongoing activities they do in the program, they had a sexual education and drugs prevention workshops that were lead by professionals in the areas. Also, our psychologists had a workshop with the mothers to try to...

After two weeks of winter holidays and incredible low temperatures in Argentina during July, our 35 children came back to the programs with lot of happiness. They even received some guests in the workshops, mostly local artists that created with them different art pieces that the children will expose in galleries, schools...

The workshops have been going very well with the children. A lot of activities worked as a trigger to some issues raised by the children themselves, like drugs addictions, sexual education, hygiene. These topics were brought to the table by the children and our teachers obviously took the opportunity to capitalize them as...