Project Report
| Jan 17, 2018
Less hunger in our Foundation
By Claudia Vanegas Urrea | Cooperation
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Delicious food
Our main interest is to look after children from 5 to 12 years old with a position of vulnerability, they are at primary school and most of these children lived only with their mothers because father abandoned them. Most of these children suffer hanger because families don’t have enough money for buying grocery. Mother are forced to reduce a meal by day.
In our 2 childhood centers we look after our children, one of our main objectives is to erradicate hunger, kids feel not only loved, protected and safe but satisfied because they have a balanced diet. Time of Peace Foundation delivered 18.067 rations of food last year, each kid receives at least two meals everyday, now children enjoy good nutrition and they have learnt healthy dietary habits.
On December each family also received groceries packet for attending children during vacations, we want to assure meals for our kids even when they don’t to go to our centers.
Children don’t go to be hungry!
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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.
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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.
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