Child Protection Mexico Project #52819

JUCONI environments: safe spaces for children

by Fundacion JUCONI Mexico, A.C.

Project Report | Feb 24, 2022
The importance of relationships in childhood

By Ariadna Luna | Project Leader

During the development of the activities in the Juconi environments, 6 project implementers attended the mid-phase workshop to share results with the team of the Monterrey Early Childhood Innovation Accelerator and the Center on the developing child at Harvard University.

In one activity of the family sessions, a girl wanted to make a necklace for her dad, however. Her mum helped her and explained how to do it slowly, mentioning that trying to do it fast prevents her from working correctly. The daughter controlled herself, helped to pick up the materials and continued with the activity. The mother was able to detect the need and provided accompaniment without getting excited.

In another activity, a caregiver is proud of the drawings her daughter makes and puts them aside so she can show them to her husband. At the beginning of the sessions, she mentioned that she could not have the workshop because her daughter was small and could not speak or communicate, but now she takes the apparently shapeless drawing and reinforces the behaviour to her daughter with phrases such as "How beautiful it is" or "do you want us to keep this one for daddy".

During the workshop there is an activity called "the medals" and each member nominates others to win them, for positive attitudes that they notice in them, despite the fact that communication between father and daughters has been complex, both were able to recognise attitudes that they like about their father, and in the image you can read how one of them nominates her father for being "very hard-working, affectionate, playful, because he plays..." among other characteristics.

Good job

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Oct 27, 2021
Creating safe environments for children

By Ariadna Luna | Project Leader

Family sessions of creative workshops have been carried out, in which families generate a product to share through a video call to their migrant caregiver with topics that promote affective communication and parenting skills.

The planned activities included having migrant caregivers make a weekly video call, however due to their schedules and activities, this activity has been complicated and has not been carried out. It has been replaced by 2 or 3 minute videos that capture the best moments of the session, are edited and sent. And the caregivers have responded in a similar way, through audios or videos in which they express their feelings according to what their family sends them.

In the sessions, the results of the interviews, matrices and responses have been analyzed, and it is obtained as a result that in Santa Cruz Cuautomatitla there are possibilities of having the following projects:

• Marketing of flowers (Nursery, flower shop and / or cosmetology)

• Marketing of avocado

• Cooperative for the production and sale of medicinal herbs

• Cooperative for the collection and sale of recycled materials (includes environmental education program).

And in the Alpanocan community the possible projects can be:

• Cooperative for the production and marketing of avocado

• Fruit marketer

• Basketry

• Medicinal products

• Project to promote local musical groups.

And in the field work, the population will be invited to join the talks to see in which project there is an interested group.

In September, long distance stories were shared with boys and girls, but also in August a call was launched for a consultative exercise, the results of which we compiled in September; the exercise was about consulting them, how can we all take care of each other in this back to school? And the option of making a story, cartoon, drawing, testimony in video, audio or other format was left. A response was received from 71 boys and girls and with the materials, 9 collaborative video clips were made to share with the population.

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