By Margarita Borda and Eduardo Ospina | Board Member
Transforming Lives: Vulnerable Children in Colombia (60132)
Summary of Activities - Report: 2024, 1st Trimestre
Circular Planet
Environmental educational days:
Environmental Talks:Periodic talks on caring for the environment: with a focus on knowledge and application of the 3 R's: Recycle, Reduce and Reuse. These talks in turn encourage changing daily and consumption habits as part of the fight for a more sustainable environment and to make the most of our natural resources. Conference on the challenges of Climate Change: virtual conference to the community on the challenges of climate change.Repeated talks to students: with a focus on how to contribute to caring for the environment. Reading club: emphasis on caring for the environmentThe ecological point was installed at the entrance to the PASO Headquarters to teach how to classify garbage responsibly and motivate students and their families to replicate it in each of their homes.
Cultural House (Art and Environmental Education):Its objective is to make an active contribution to society, in the sense of sustainable development, while striving for ecological viability and social justice.The following programs are active:
Music: Students divided into 5 groups: musical initiation, children's band, youth band, guitars and piano. Topics related to global warming, the greenhouse effect, alternative energies, the protection of animal species and the conservation of natural resources are discussed in the activities and initiatives carried out in class. Additionally, we reflect on projects that, by reusing or recycling different materials, can build musical instruments.
Music: Students divided into 5 groups: musical initiation, children's band, youth band, guitars and piano. Topics related to global warming, the greenhouse effect, alternative energies, the protection of animal species and the conservation of natural resources are discussed in the activities and initiatives carried out in class. Additionally, we reflect on projects that, by reusing or recycling different materials, can build musical instruments.
Sponsor Plan:This plan makes it possible to raise awareness among the sponsored child and his or her family on issues related to the environment, the care of biodiversity and its protection. We teach the importance of caring for the environment, respect for living beings, recycling and reusing materials, reducing pollution, among other related topics.
Techno-academy (name under review): Proposal for an environmental initiative, with learning activities related to science and technology and environmental education.
Academic reinforcement: Aimed at students who voluntarily want to take it with the purpose of reinforcing respect for the environment, citizen values and basic sciences and languages (English and Spanish). Teachers according to the requirements of interested students. Additionally, we offer personalized psychological support to all children and their families, motivating them to have greater belonging and improve self-esteem.
Seamstress: Active program with women and mothers who are heads of households in the neighborhood who are taught and guided in making clothing and household products. The program aims to give them tools that allow them to improve their quality of life and direct them to search for new opportunities (sources of income).
Periodic conferences: The Red PaPaz organization through the ¡Tu Lideras! program. He has been accompanying us with topics on reducing the consumption of electronic cigarettes to protect the health of minors and conferences on doubts and opportunities that exist around the onset of puberty.
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