Lifting Hands 2017

Educating with Love

A new class for moms called "Educating with Love" is part of the new Lifting Hands program focused on parents. It is designed to promote positive discipline, where parents talk with children to build trust, without any physical or psychological violence. We seek to make alliances to improve communication and that there is empathy on both sides. So far, there are 11 mothers and 1 father, who have already graduated from the course. In this space you learn a lot: you talk about everything a bit, many values are covered and a quite positive change is noticed both in the parents and in the stories they tell. Everyone gets to share experiences of techniques they have applied. Parents in general participate a lot, they come up with many questions and concerns, which is very good because it helps prepare what the program should focus on and even what more research should be done. It is very gratifying to see how they have been growing and learning.

New Kisá course culminates successfully

The name of the Kisá project is rooted in the Hebrew which means "knitting, covering," "house." Through the project, we offer children and adolescents the best care, psychological containment, stimulation of creativity and imagination, recognition of emotions and establishment of values so that they grow healthy and fully.   All this through Positive Discipline and other paradigms so that the approach is completely comprehensive, so that children have a healthy psycho-emotional development, in pursuit of their happiness and well-being. Its basis is mutual respect, without imposing and seeking solutions together with adults and minors, so that it becomes your "safe space", your home that shelters and protects.

¡Bryan can hear for the first time!

Bryan is a young boy of 16 years that was diagnosed with hearing loss from birth. Along with his family from Nicaragua immigrated to Costa Rica in search of better opportunities for all. He arrived at the foundation with 2 of his sisters more than two years ago. Until then, he was illiterate due to the different challenges that he had faced in the past. The only education that he receives is from Lifting Hands.

Thanks to the continuous work and effort of the foundation along with other institutions, he had receiving support in different areas; and thank to a fund-raising campaign, Bryan can hear for the first time.   For a while he receives three classes of LESCO and currently has been included Language Therapy meetings.

Today, Bryan enjoys learning as all the beneficiaries of the foundation. His favorite subject is Jiu-Jitsu because it features with skills and talent, helping him to stand out.  

Volunteers and students of TCU (communal university work) enjoyed a time for sharing and knowing each other

As usual, at the end of every quarter there is a celebration. To this celebration attended more than 50 people between volunteers and students of TCU. During the event was presented the reporting results of 2018, in order to volunteers be updated of the work in the foundation.

Also, volunteers enjoyed the lunch of the Chef Andres Monzon, volunteer of Lifting Hands. Also, were presentations of the children that attend to the foundation, specifically, of Jiu-Jitsu, Capoeira and dance.

Every participant had a time to express the most rewarding of his work, and at the same time, Monica and July, thanked to all the volunteers for their effort, dedication and patience. To the end of the event, all received a gift elaborated by the children of the foundation as a reminder of their 4 months with us.

Something very positive of this kind of events is that volunteers know each other and share their experiences.

Corporative Volunteering of the Double Tree Sabana Hotel

On May 1st, we had a productive and entertaining afternoon with the team of Double Tree Sabana Hotel, our new ally neighbor. ¡Thank you!