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.
Love and respect agreements
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.
Community campaign for the prevention of Dengue
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.
Let’s Dance!
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.
Environmental Guardians learning
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.
Preparing our own homemade salads
This Saturday during the nutrition and healthy habits activity, the young participants explained the components and benefits of the vegetables and prepared a salad using ingredients from the Fund’s community vegetable garden. These activities promote conscious eating habits in both young children and adolescents, as well as demonstrate the benefits of cultivating vegetables for personal consumption.
Recycled Materas
This week the children and young people who participated in the Community Vegetable Garden project in Lipaya developed their creativity and artistic abilities by creating their pots with recycled plastic bottles. These pots will each have a plant from the vegetable garden, and will be sold to the public in Barranquilla to fund an educational field trip for the children.
A pleasant visit
Over the past few weeks, the director of the Foundation was visiting our site and observing the different projects that are carried out in them, joining in with the children during the activities, along with generous guests, who donated Kindle Paperwhite Kids that include access to thousands of books. We are grateful that these tools will be key to strengthening the reading skills of the beneficiaries.
Let’s learn values
This Saturday, the teachers of the Home Gardens project at the Lipaya site taught the beneficiaries of the Foundation the importance of values such as respect, tolerance and teamwork through the preparation of posters made with recycled cardboard, and in this way promote a climate of harmony and better coexistence both in the Foundation and in society.
We resume the school of parents in Barranquilla
This Wednesday we resume the activities of the Educando en Casa project, at the Barranquilla Headquarters. The parents of the beneficiaries attended these activities in which the issues related to the distribution of tasks in the home, and the resolution of family conflicts were addressed. This project is important for a comprehensive intervention because the family is fundamental in the healthy development of children.