A Caring Education for At-risk Kids in Costa Rica

At Casa ILORI, we continue to weave alliances with various sectors that collaborate in the construction of this big project. Part of the meaning of a supportive education is to create intersectoral spaces, for which we continue to provide spaces for children and the community by organizing activities from Casa ILORI.

During this quarter, a group of young people has been training on issues related to entrepreneurship and human rights from an intersectional and empathetic approach. The space is the union of the Foundation and Glasswing International. For us and the community, they are very significant tools since the process has helped this group to create enterprises in their community or strengthen the small businesses they already had.

Other activities that we highly valued was the one carried out by students at the Universidad de Ciencias Médicas (UCIMED) in the framework of their university community work to graduate, which focused on giving workshops on various topics related to health and care aimed at mothers, children and adolescents.

We also continue with our alliance with UNICEF since 2021 with the "Espacios Seguros" programs which have been developed at Casa ILORI, this time we had a meeting with institutions that implement the "Espacios Seguros" program in other communities.

And finally, the children who are in sixth grade about to graduate have begun to make the traditional memory album, which aims to recover the experience and time they have spent at Casa ILORI.

Each of these activities reinforces us as a Foundation and program since at ILORI we value teamwork and inter-institutional work and we believe that in order to achieve social transformations in the community of La Carpio and in the lives of children, it is necessary to work together. That is why we appreciate and value your support and donations to this project.

 La Carpio is one of the communities that has the most migrants in Costa Rica, which makes it a very particular territory. Another characteristic of the community is that it is an informal settlement which is inhabited mainly by people from Nicaragua and Costa Ricans. This particularity has created a binationality among the inhabitants of La Carpio, which becomes a cultural wealth, but at the same time, it creates structural problems such as xenophobia, racism, sexism and extreme poverty. From this, public institutions, social organizations, United Nations agencies, among others, make an effort, through socio-educational initiatives, training that generate social changes in the community.

 During these months, in our physical space Casa ILORI (located in La Carpio) we have been welcoming institutions that carry out activities aimed at the community of La Carpio, this is part of our commitment to the population for the protection of children and the eradication of xenophobia, racism and sexism.

In addition, these activities allow inter-institutional coordination; also give visibility to the needs of children in La Carpio. The visibility and the approach of institutions and organizations to Casa ILORI is very relevant matter since it allows recognition of the problems that the community has.

 Among the organizations that we have received at Casa ILORI, is the Patronato Nacional de la Infancia, which held a workshop for mothers on the upbringing and care of children. Vocational guidance workshops were held with the Instituto de Nacional de Aprendizaje.  With UNICEF, we held workshops aimed at migrant children, we also had training with the IOM and the Dirección de Migración y Extranjería, on the steps to follow for the regularization of migrants. These initiatives to open the doors of Casa ILORI to other institutions and organizations in solidarity, are part of the work we do, thanks to your donations and solidarity.

We greatly appreciate your collaboration.

Links:

• Report on the ILORI Project