Help 2,000 at-risk youth in Colombia build peace

The Foundation´s efforts are routed to create habits for constructive use of time, to keep our beneficiaries active and far away from danger and delinquent behaviors in the streets. These days, our beneficiaries have been surrounded in different protective environments full of knowledge, new ways of thinking and opportunities. Every activity is a chance to learn new things, to get to know different points of view of life, and above all, to weave a thread of understanding and tolerance.

One of the activities carried out outdoors, was a conference about the prevention of violence in teen relationships to teach to the adolescents the relevance of respect and love. Especially in such age, when the conformation of healthy practices of human communication are needed to tackle the latent influence of the local environments in youth´s behaviors.

In addition, in the frame of the Book Festival in the city, the children and adolescents had a close up to fun stories and magical worlds of words. Through the reading promotion, the idea is to teach about books as a means of knowledge, interaction, pleasure, transformation, because we intend to transform the concept and habit to read only done when needed.

In the indoors activities, we had an artistic show, made every year in the facilities, to present to the community the development of self-expression skills and creativity through dance. This activity pursues to get close the community with our practices as a Foundation, and to strengthen in beneficiaries the resilient attitudes.

Thank you so much in advance, to all our donors and supporters, who have been willing to help with their open arms by offering new scenarios for life!

During this summer, 45 children and  45 adolescents, lived an unforgettable camping experience in an entire weekend in the countryside with the companion of the program coordinator, the violence Prevention Centers managers, and some teachers.

All beneficiaries are part of “Living my Rights” Project and of different process clubs, which means, they approach different topics according to their age.

The main objectives of this camping were:

- Promoting the integration among children, adolescents and young members of the different clubs and “Living My Rights” Project of the various Violence Prevention Centers.

- Encourage the constant participation of the processes in the Violence Prevention Centers; from a highly attractive activity for all participants, which in turn will help to foster psychosocial life skills, citizenship skills and resilience.

- Strengthen leadership processes and autonomy in the participants.

- Recognize in the colors in the richness of our life: communicating ideas, expressing feelings, showing moods, causing feelings of joy, calm, meditation and wellness.

As part of the enjoyment and learning of the beneficiaries, we decided to came up with recreational activities and dynamics, in order to create awareness over those topics, for example: to encourage the decision-making, critical thinking and stress management, we decided to put puzzles and hieroglyphs. Besides, to enforce empaty and assertive communication, we had grupal games such as a soapy track.

To finish the camping, we had a talent night, where all of our facilities had  an space for dancing and music.

That´s it for now, but from the bottom of our hearts, we would like to thank to all our donors who have been keeping this initiative alive and have been helping to build a better society where human beings are conscious of themselves and the others.

Until the next time!