By Guadalupe Velasquez | Girls Coordinator
Dear Donor,
What is the meaning of to be empowered? To make somebody powerful, like to have a fruitful, independent life.
This is what any parent or tutor seeks to instill in his/her children or pupils to have their own decisions no matter if they make mistakes or have success
We know that empowerment does not appear out of nothing, it is the fruit of a caring environment and its nurturing conditions for its development.
For a child it is important to have an environment of trust, where errors are not punished but analyzed and reflected upon, and that new alternatives for achieving goals are suggested, cherished and supported . Having to support and encourage curiosity in learning social and academic skills, as well as to have a broad perspective of reality and teaching them to make better decisions.
Women today face challenges when they need to have their voice heard, when they express their desires and decisions, passing from dependence to independence, from ignorance to knowledge.
This process empower their lives, with control on their decisions, on their emotions, their inner souls and thus to value themselves. Women have also learned to believe in them, with successes and failures that have taught them to accept themselves and when in distress, stand up and start again, as many times as needed.
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For Puerta Abierta, our priority has been to raise women with these traits. If for any given woman, even born in ideal family conditions, sometimes empowerment is challenging, just imagine the work needed in our girls and young women, not having had a trustful environment in their original families.
Today, some of our girls are making important life decisions, like career and work choices, while also trying to forge their own self image, and thus becoming empowered in the process with responsibility to assume the role they want .
We at Puerta Abierta are very proud of our young women, seeing them taking control of their lives an example, Margarita is now independent, has a successful, and emotionally balanced personal and professional life, she is aware and exercises her independence within the social group she belongs and is committed to her Puerta Abierta sisters and friends.
Like Margarita, we have other girls growing up, becoming young and empowered women. As tutors we wish to be empathic enough to help them to make the best decision.
Meanwhile our dreams and wishes are becoming true.
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