By Ana Laura Araya | Fundraising Director
Today we are going to tell you a bit more about our main programs and about how they went about in 2023.
As you know, Soy Niña’s program is continuous. This means that the majority of girls that participated in 2023 had been participating in the program throughout the past years. All clubs were separated as previous years, by communities and by school cycles. We finished the year having impacted between 150 and 170 girls, divided into groups of 15-20 girls. We served three communities and in each one we had one club for I Cycle (1-3 grade), one club for II Cycle (4-6 grade) and one club for III Cicle (7-9) grade. This 2024, we will begin a club for IV cycle (10-12 grades).
All cycles were structured, as always, in two semesters. The first semester went from February to July 2023 and the second semester from July to December 2023. All sessions were implemented following a structured curriculum and included a once a month virtual session as well as a once a month special session. Our curriculum includes topics on identity, health, self-care, healthy relationships, critical thinking, gender, use of digital tools, dreams, goals, life projects, among others.
As in previous years, the special sessions covered the following topics: STEAM, Healthy Lifestyles, and Environmental Education.
We really believe that 2023 represented the first year where things went back to how they were prior to the pandemic. For each community, we held the club every week at the same time. In 2022, following the pandemic, the weekly schedule changed depending on the physical spaces and public school schedule (which changed constantly in 2022).
Here are a few testimonies from 2023:
"Teacher, today was the best day of my life."
- Xitlaly, 6. After going to the Parque de Diversiones trip in December 2023
"Teacher, when you go to the university, is there recess? "
-Fiorella, 14. After going on a field trip to the University of Costa Rica
"Teacher, I want to tell you that today I got my period for the first time."
-Jimena, 11
"At the club they taught me to defend myself, because rights are for everyone."
-Nicole, 12
"I learned about menstruation, I learned from other girls to have friends, thanks to the teacher I learned about emotional things, for example: not to keep your feelings to yourself, I learned to have healthy communication with my friends and with my mother."
-Jennifer, 15
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