Empower Highly Outcast Children and Their Families

This quarter was full of celebration and recognition for Mayama. In the company of nearly 250 donors, friends and team Mayama, we celebrate 5 years of life serving children and families in vulnerable conditions, we recognized the generous people who have supported this project for 5 years (our donors) ago and also gave the great news that Mayama obtained the Consultative Status of ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council) of the UN on April.

What does mean belong to the ECOSOC?

The Economic and Social Council is one of the constituent bodies of the United Nations, and deals with economic, social and environmental problems of the world; these issues are discussed, debated and formulated policy recommendations.

ECOSOC granted Mayama this April 10, the special status of advisory body, because it recognizes it as a Non Governmental Organization legally established and operating; it has a board created democratically; whose finances are transparent and stable; and also is committed wth transparency, delivering results annually to its donors, beneficiaries and various stakeholders, plus it has a solid structure in terms of staff and social impact.

In five years, Mayama has established an educational model whose innovative techniques contribute to children and with their families, living in areas of high poverty, violence, abuse, orphans and exclusion; develop for themselves skills that allow them overcome difficulties of their environment and improve their quality of life.

As a preventive project, focused on human and social development, Mayama generates and applies innovative educational tools in scenarios of social exclusion, inequality, educational backwardness, lack of access to health services, few job opportunities and violation of the rights of Children, located in areas of the municipalities of Tlaquepaque and Tonala, Jalisco, Mexico.

These are some of the reasons that allowed Mayama to obtain this Consultative Status, and now we are part of the 4,045 non-governmental organizations of global civil society, recognized as counselors in that chapter of the UN, which 30 are Mexican and 5 belongs to the state of Jalisco.

In Mayama, we believe is better to invest in preventive projects that involve children’s families as a key to prevent children end up living on the street. To achieve this, we believe in combined efforts of various sectors of society: business, government, civil society, academia, the media and others, are essential to achieve this. 

Mayama faithfully believes in alternative, innovative and integral education, in order to develop the full potential of children; trust the management of emotions to relate positively, with love and without violence; estimates the power of the family and its potential to generate social change; supports the professionalization of the social sector and invariably adheres to the practices of transparency of each program, project and donation. That is, Mayama brings out the best in everyone who gets involved with this project: children, families, donors, volunteers, team, friends and our Global Giving donors.

Thank you for brings out the best of you!

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.