Empower Highly Outcast Children and Their Families

Mayama is an NGO (Non Governmental Organization), based in Guadalajara, Mexico that continues with its doors open to 180 children and their families in marginalization, violence, abuse, orphans, exclusion or risk street situation. And thanks to your support, this year will enter 90 new children to our program. Exactly how our program works? We have a Model of Human Development, through psycho-educational strategies, develop skills for assertive decisions leading to better quality of life and overcome the difficulties of their environment by themselves.

We do this through a Day Center (where the children attend twice a week) and a Family Program, where through sessions with all child's family members, Mayama work on issues such as Human Rights, Culture of peace, communication and hygiene, to reduce violence and to reintegrate these children to school in order to avoid they end living on the streets. 

As evidence of the social impact of our program, this quarter ended a period of four years for 40 children of the second generation (they started in 2011). These children, now continue their phase of "Coaching", what does this mean? is a special process of support for the girls and guys who accomplished at least 80% attendance, which continue studying in the regular system, they are free addiction, free of early pregnancy, which are people who give good treatment to themselves and others, and have finally managed to design a life plan.

In this event, we enjoyed some videos made by the Mayama children. This was a parte of the final audiovisual project with issues related to their community. With this exercise, children put into practice the skills learned in Mayama: analyzing their context, express a problem and think about possible solutions to it. This is a mini-project "the importance and care for dogs" you can see in this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb3gj8Rp5HQ 

These four years of process in each Mayama child, it would not have been possible without your help. Your donation makes this possible: their attendance at the Day Center, daily transportation payment, nutritious breakfasts, teaching materials, specialized teachers, among others.

Thank you very much.

When do you come to know our Day Centre?

Links:

• Mini-project made by Mayama children.

 “Today is a great day for me, I´m very happy and it has been hard, but we have worked to keep going (…) There are changes in my family, we are more communicative, more patient, we learned to take care each other and we approach more in family (…) I wish to everyone who have begun this (Mayama Program) has enough brave to finish it; God bless you and keep going teachers”.

This is just an example of feelings, and what a family degreed takes, five years later from coexistence and attendance here in Mayama Educative Program. Families who walked with us since 2010, and families who we was working to accomplish our mission: development of skills for taking assertive decisions in 57 children and 21 families.

This result is because of you and an entire team work, who also had activities that allow them to improve professional attention to each children that are parte of the Mayama family. Teachers attended the Third International Congress JUCONI (together with girls and boys in Spanish) "For a world without violence" in Mexico; and also attended the second Inter-Agency Meeting Foundation Quiera, with the objective to increase the professionalism of NGO (Non-Governmental Organizations), sharing experiences and case success with vulnerable children.

Thanks to you, this 2014 closed with gains, smiles and activities enjoyed by children, such as visiting local footballer Jesus Palacios de Leones Negros (University of Guadalajara, a local University) and members of the international movement "Up with People".

Thanks for being part of Mayama.