" 52 YEARS PROTECTING CHILDREN IN COLOMBIA"

Our program keeps growing and giving smiles and hopes to disadvantaged children in Medellín, in this report we present you the main achievements of the period, it would not be possible without your invaluable help.

We developed partnerships with different universities (San Buenaventura, Luis Amigó, Universidad de Antioquia) to strengthen our services in the areas of psychology, education and social work.

The children participated in many cultural activities offered by the city and accompanied by Superarse: Theatre, dance, movies... They also started flout classes to motivate their musical comprehension.

We conducted different projects in our attention areas:

• Social Work: Prevention of mistreatment, In family it´s possible.
• Psychology: My life project, prevention of drugs and alcohol consumption, sexual education, vocational education
• Nutrition: Promotion of health and prevention of illness
• Education: While we go back home, Exploring the web, Reading promotion

96% of the children presented adequate state of health thanks to continual medical follow-ups and education and training to the families

94% of the beneficiaries presented improvements in their nutritional status thanks to the caloric support provided by Superarse

Study habits in the children were developed during the first semester of the year

We celebrated the Family day, an event where we recognize the invaluable job made by the families in the process of their children

We want to thank you once again for drawing smiles in the faces of the children and hope to count with your support in the future; here is a testimony from a beneficiary:

“The support of the teachers to help us achieve a better future makes me very happy, I wake up every day with the illusion of living an adventure in Superarse, I feel safe here because they give me love and help my family” boy, 10 years old

The preventive program is located in Bombona, in cra 41 nro. 46-78. We offer preventive attention for 60 children at risk. Among the risk situations we attend, there is lack of motivation to attend school, lack of responsible guardians, exposure to street labour, consumption of alcohol and drugs, malnutrition... we have a group of trained professionals to work in a preventive way these sort of problems.

Here are our main accomplishments during the first trimester:

100% of the children improved their nutritional status thanks to the balanced nutrition we provide in the program. We conduct several checkups of height and weight in order to guarantee the promotion of health and prevention of illness.

100% of the beneficiaries attended educational and recreational activities. We offered 3 workshops regarding the sexual education and prevention of drugs and alcohol. Furthermore, we developed several focus groups with the families to discuss subjects of healthy education and habits. The entire group attended activities in the play rooms, sports and cultural projects.

We enhanced the areas of reading writing and mathematics in order to improve the academic performance of the children.

We want to thank you once again for all your support, the children keep dreaming and building their life projects thanks to you