By Luciana Noya | Project Leader
In Latin America, the COVID-19 crisis continues to impact the daily lives of children and adolescents. According to UNICEF, confinement, the closure of educational centers and the loss of families' economic resources has lead to an increase in poverty and domestic violence, and affects the mental health of adolescents.
In this context, in May and June we trained mentors and educators who work with adolescents in educational institutions to carry out virtual or face-to-face workshops on violence prevention with groups of adolescents.
In May, we gave a training based on the short film "Contigo Confianza" (Together Trust), a teaching tool for workshops with teens on the prevention of sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and violence on social networks, among others. In total, 45 mentors and educators from social organizations in 13 countries participated: Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, Brazil, Venezuela, Honduras, Costa Rica, Argentina, Mexico, El Salvador, Uruguay, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. In June at least 10 educators replicated virtual and/or face-to-face workshops reaching 170 adolescents. We estimate that more than 700 adolescents will be reached through this group of trained educators in the coming months.
In June, we held a virtual training on the short film "Temporada Alta" (High Season), which aims to work with adolescents on the prevention of commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. The 47 participants came from social organizations in 12 countries: El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia. These educators committed to holding the workshops in the coming months with groups of adolescents.
One of the participants, Eliazar, held a workshop in June with 9 adolescents from a Nicaraguan community: “They are vulnerable adolescents and exposed to situations of abandonment and violence.The surrounding community has problems with drug dealing. We carried out the first face-to-face activity with the methodology learned. The teens were interested in terms such as economic violence, sexual harassment, and they mentioned violence within the school environment a lot (…) As an activist and a human rights defender, I feel committed to this and other issues that help reduce the violation of rights.”
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