Project Report
| Jan 16, 2018
Music helps!
By Claudia Vanegas Urrea | Cooperation
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Children singing "No permito" (I don't allow)
In Colombia 18.000 kids were abused during 2016, it is a very alarming amount and that’s why Time of Peace Foundation was so interested in preventing sexual abuse in children, we are always looking for prevention programs and strategies with the main objective of avoiding any aggression against one of our beneficiaries.
Foundation staff realized music could be a great methodology for education and it could be used as a transforming agent in sexual education also, so last year our children learnt how to take care of theirselves through music classes, now they know to say NO against any indecent proposal and they have skill for teachnig this to their siblings, cousins and classmates.
On December children made a performance with the lessons about taking care of theirselves, it encourages us to continue our job with them.
Oct 11, 2017
Children Sexual Abuse Prevention
By Claudia Vanegas Urrea | Cooperation
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Workshops with children
Our purpose is to educate children between 4 – 12 years old in sexual education and prevention of sexual abuse, and to train parents to warn and to face this issue. This will be done through reflection journeys and story books for educating childrens and parents.
According to UNICEF 228 children are sexually abused each hour in Latin America and the Caribbean. Despite of seriousness of this felony, most of cases are not detected nor reported. More of the 80% of the abusers are people close to the child. Child abuse is not a matter of poverty, social status or religious belief. Any child is at risk of being abused.
If we educate children between 4 – 12 years old in sexual education they can take care of theirselves and if parents are also trained, they can warn this issue, they could identify different kinds and risks of abuse and some symptons for identifiying if children are being abused
It is not only for protecting children but for claiming for a future generation sexually, emotionally and phisically healthy. It has been demonstrated early sexual education and good communication between parents and children reduce sexual abuse probability. Assertiveness is a social ability for a person to express in a clear and direct way. Children who develop strategies for confronting, for asking for help, and for rejecting any bother proposal are stronger and they are not easily abused.
May 11, 2017
Prevention of Sexual Exploitation of Children
By Claudia Vanegas Urrea | Cooperation
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Children in one of the workshops.
We are training 75 children for avoiding sexual exploitation, most of children from our 2 childhood centers are easily manipulated because of their poverty conditions, so the main goal is to prevent any attempt of convincing or forcing them to prostitution, pornography or any kind of sexual exploitation.
We have realized kids are very motivated with music so we decided to focus workshops this way. All tasks will be designed with a musical activity. After all meetings, we want children to make a performance such as a song, a theatre play or a craft based on subject of the workshop.
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Prevention and music: A good mix!