The Mi Ciudad con Vida Foundation at the Barranquilla location has been offering much-needed support to the children and families with significant economic and health difficulties as part of the Psychosocial program. Through the delivery of groceries we contribute to Food & Health and in this way hope to decrease malnutrition within the community.
We have continued working on the activities from the Educating at Home project with families at the Lipaya location. This time we started with the activities from module 5, which are aimed at psychosocial development. Throughout the workshop, we focused on the identification of emotions, emotional expression and management of emotions, as well as strategies to communicate assertively. These activities are important and can have a lasting impact on the families of the children, offering them strategies and knowledge in order to promote a healthy home environment.
Every Saturday at the Barranquilla location, the first activity with the children is focused on educating them on the importance of punctuality through interactive activities and games. In this way, we promote values such as responsibility, respect, commitment, and the development of healthy habits that allow them to arrive on time. We also make sure to give a shout out to the first children who arrive on time at 8:00am, when the day’s activities begin.
This Saturday we received a visit from a young adult member of the RED JOVEN PROFAMILIA program, and we developed activities with the goal of defending and promoting Sexual and Reproductive Rights among the children in the Barranquilla location. These lessons are important to encourage awareness, sex education and the use of contraceptives, aside from preventing teenage pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
This Saturday, the Environmental Guardians in the Lipaya location went out into the community to promote water conservation, offering informative tips and explaining the importance of this for everyone.
This Saturday the youth group in the Barranquilla location engaged in activities to develop strategies that encouraged conflict resolution as a way to promote respect and healthy coexistence among the teenagers. This, along with activities in the psychosocial education kit related to understanding the origin of a conflict and how to prevent further conflict.
Through an informative campaign this Saturday, the Environmental Guardians group walked throughout the streets of the Lipaya neighborhood to promote the prevention of Dengue, explaining what it is, how it is transmitted, and how to prevent it. This way, aside from sharing an important message, the children strengthened their assertive communication, teamwork and confidence.
This Saturday the youngest kids at the Fund’s Barranquilla location enjoyed a fun and entertaining dance class. These types of activities help the kids develop confidence, spontaneity, memory, coordination, and self-knowledge. Also, through dance they can channel their emotions and exercise their bodies.
This week, the group of participants from the ‘Environmental Guardians’ project in Lipaya learned about tropical diseases like Dengue. They learned to identify the characteristics of the mosquitos that can transmit this disease, how to prevent their reproduction, and the symptoms Dengue can cause.
