Help marginalized Mexican children and teenagers

We are closing another school year with new achievements!

The end of the school year is approaching and with it we have achieved new goals. As part of the "Vesta: Walking Together" Program, we have reached 3 schools in contexts of social and economic vulnerability, in 3 states of Mexico: Tlaxcala, Chihuahua and the State of Mexico.

So far, we have impacted 150 girls and boys, through playful sessions, and 37 teachers and 75 parents with experiential and participatory workshops

The teachers are replicating the topics with their students and the Yo quiero Yo puedo team has made follow-up visits to support this work and reaffirm each of the topics.

To contribute to the elimination of violence against girls, due to gender inequalities that violate human rights and deprive girls of education, health and opportunities, we focus on the following topics:

• Patriarchal system and other systems of oppression
• Macro and micromachismos
• Normalization and Prevention of violence (Identification of gender violence)
• Alternative masculinities
• Historical contribution of women

Also, life skills are the fundamental pillar of the work in the classrooms, so we want to make sure that every child knows how to work on their self-knowledge, have significant changes in the management and expression of their emotions, in their empathy, in communicating assertively, in teamwork, in their critical and creative thinking.

There are still some sessions to conclude and soon we will share the results of this stage, but we want this to keep moving forward and make it bigger and bigger, that more states of Mexico and more schools join to promote knowledge from a gender perspective, in alternative masculinities, reduce violence in the families of our students and thus eradicate violence against girls and women.

You are our greatest supporter!

You can help us reach many more girls and boys, more communities and more states!

Girls and boys will thank you!

We have returned to help girls and boys develop life skills and intrinsic empowerment with a gender perspective to prevent violence.

Hand in hand with the Vesta Program “Walking together”, we return to take activities in 2 primary schools and a preschool in 3 states of Mexico (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua; Huamantla, Tlaxcala and San Blas, State of Mexico); up to this point we have developed the contents and materials with which we will implement 3 workshops with teachers, who will replicate the topics with their students, in the same way we will raise awareness among mothers and fathers with 6-hour workshops in each school.

The topics for the workshops with teachers and mothers and fathers are:

Prevention of violence (identification of gender violence), Patriarchal system and other systems of oppression, Macro and Micro-machismos, Normalization of violence, New masculinities (Alternative masculinities), Historical contribution of women.

We are currently organizing with the educational authorities of each school, the logistics to implement 1 6-hour workshop for teachers in each primary school and 4 conferences of 2 hours each for mothers and fathers in each school. To complement the activities with students and ensure that the topics are adequately replicated, we will make follow-up visits to each teacher when they work on the Program topics.

 At the end of the school year, we will achieve, favorable changes:

• In life skills and empowerment.

• In gender perspective knowledge.

• In attitudes about gender perspective.

• In the identification of gender violence.

• In attitudes towards gender equality, violence prevention and the promotion of citizenship.

• In behaviors regarding violence prevention and the promotion of citizenship.

• In school climate.

The scope of the program is:

37 teachers

161 students from the 3 schools

90 mothers and fathers

With your support we will reach more than 700 more people who are part of the close circle of girls and boys (family, friends and teachers).

Join us and be part of the change!