Empower 450 Vulnerable Children & Families

Dear Supporter,

TIPA team is most grateful for your precious contribution in these difficult times.

The COVID-19 lockdown has had an important impact on vulnerable children and parents: children have had difficulties to access educational material online or on TV, thus resulting in an increase in educational inequalities, and parents have been facing increased stress in the crisis. 

Since the lockdown, TIPA team focused on the 3 following actions:

• creation of children’s arts activities to allow them to express themselves and to know their rights and responsibilities.These activities were shared with parents online and with on-field trained parents to do arts activities with children in their community.
• support to parents during online discussions on the challenges they faced in raising their children, and through training and sharing sessions in “parenting skills”
• training of 6 parents to become community coordinators to conduct art activities with children in their community

These 6 parents are mothers of vulnerable children we work with. During the training, they understood how to plan and assess art activities, how to encourage children to participate and how to give them value so as to build self confidence.   The trained parents now carry out afterschool activities in the ZEP schools where TIPA intervenes and in the community with other vulnerable children, they also participate with TIPA team in the planning of activities for other vulnerable parents. TIPA remunerates them for their services to the community and we provide regular follow-up in this empowerment process. TIPA team feels priviledged to have them acting as local partners on the field and we are thrilled to feel their motivation and see how committed they are.

In the current context, TIPA activities aim to increase the resilience of vulnerable families: children and parents need ongoing support to sustainably develop skills such as self-confidence and emotional management, which are essential to cope with stress during the Covid19 crisis.

This is why your continued support is so important and means so much to us. Thank you