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There are so many problems that involve the children and the teenagers from Ventanilla; one of them is the poverty in extreme situation and the misery. The most of them belong to population low stratus and suffer from limitations because of their family units. Nowadays, the children and teenagers are the most affected when they want to access to a fair and necessary education and recreation.

The project emerge as a result of the work that is being developed by our organization, that began with a project of social-educational intervention with minors at social risk in the year 2007 in order to respond to the demands that come from the different neighborhoods from Ventanilla and to give stability, functionality and efficacy to all social intervention performed not only with the minors but also with other population sectors.

The educational failure is a problem that affects the minors from different parts of Ventanilla, which result in a high rate of absentee minors and/or in an important curricular deficiency.

The increasing absenteeism and a low academic performance are some of the risk factors that are important to stop since they have been detected for preventing possible school truancy and avoiding the risk of the social exclusion suffered by these minors.

Family, personal, social and economic problems are the main causes that motivate these minors to practice the absenteeism and that lead to educational failure.

o Personal factors: the lack of specific educational support and attention by their parents and by other educational institutions, the lack of social skills needed in their development, a low self-esteem, are some of the factors that affect these minors’ educational situation.

o Family Factors: Problems in family relations have an effect in the integration and academic performance of the student.

In Ventanilla, problems of family discord like families with only one parent, homes abandoned by parents, families with alcoholism and/or drugs problems, families with 4 or 7 children whose parents can not offer them a good education or who can not pay for education for all of them, are presented.

However, the parents show very permissive before their children education.

o Social Factors: These minors have a lack of positive referents that direct them in their studies and in their personal life. Their parents can’t provide them educational support because they do not have any economic or cultural means to help them with their homework. In addition to these facts, it is the lack of schools and educational institutions.

o Economic Facts: The lack of means falls in the performance of these minors, who are forced to work since little ones for contributing to family support.

The public schools are far away from these human settlements, what involves spending money in transport that is not accessible for these families, additionally to spend money in basic materials (books, pencils, notebooks) that they can’t pay.

This reality consequences are:

o Very slow reading habits, influenced by the media and the lack of critical capacity, the participation in conferences, theaters, expositions or cultural expressions almost zero.

o The children presented curricular gaps in the reading and writing capacity and in the concentration and receiving of theoretical contents (Literature, History, English…) as well in mathematics.

. ACTIVITIES (SOLUTIONS TO THE NEEDS EXPLAINED)

A. EDUCATIONAL AREA

1. ACTIVITIES OF EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT AND REINFORCEMENT.

The following activities designated to minors of 6 to 16 years will be performed to get over the educational failure:

School tasks, adequate work cards at each minor level, preparation of educational exams about study techniques and habits stressing in:

- Improving the oral and written understanding and expression.
- Clarifying concepts
- Improving attention and concentration capacity.
- Providing strategies needed to get basic knowledge.
- Improving the reading interest and enjoyment.


2.-ACTIVITIES OF MONITORING AND CONTROL OF SCHOOL ABSENTEEISM

A coordination between parents and teachers that improve the educational intervention is tried to be created; knowing the educational shortages of the minors, the shortages can be deeply treated and the school absenteeism will be able to be eradicated at long term.

The activities that will be performed are:

Meetings between teachers and minors’ fathers/mothers
Groups of fathers and mothers. With this activity, we expect make the parents aware of the educational needs of their children and involve them in educational activities that will be performed.


3. SOCIAL-EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES

EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS

These workshops are made with the purpose that the minors familiarize with their behavior, habits, and positive attitudes for their good personality development.
Through group dynamics and techniques the following contents are discussed:

Education for Health: sexual education, drugs prevention, first aids…
Environmental education
Education for Peace: Interculturality, conflicts resolution
Coeducation: Improvement of self-esteem. Feelings expression and communication. Cooperation and work team.


A. WORKSHOPS OF PRODUCTIVITY WITH PARENTS

Community activities that will be performed with the parents in order to train them for solving their own problems, developing their potentials and helping the social relations and ties in the community.

Indirectly, we expect that all the activities performed with the parents have a positive effect on their children.


B. CRAFT WORKSHOPS

The imagination and creativity of the minors will be improved through craft workshops using different materials like and recycling material, making t-shirts, etc.

4. OUT-OF-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

A. GOING OUT INTO THE COUNTRY

This increases their knowledge about the rural environment and makes a less harmful free time possible.
We try to help in the fact of belonging to a group, promote the social relationships, and promote the cooperation and a coexistence environment.




B. SPORT ACTIVITIES

The free time is too limited for the minors. The zone has just one asphalted space for developing the sport activities.
These activities are used as preventive measures in order to know other spaces. The sports allow the social relations and the communication and in this way the minors will know healthy free time habits and new games.


C. CULTURAL EXCURSIONS

One-day excursions to museums, historic areas, expositions, etc are performed.

o Basic knowledge of Spanish language.
o Motivation.
o Exchange of experiences and knowledge.
o Skills to work with children and young people.
o Emotional capacity to face the situation of the zone.
o Tolerance y willingness for the team work with children, teenagers and young people.
o Skills for using knowledge and adequate techniques and/or create new ones if required.

For more information, do not hesitate to contact
Goodwill Young People
Av. C Mz A3 Lt 10 Ventanilla Alta Callao Lima Peru
Telephone +511-5535580 Fax 511-4852030
E-mail: jovenesdebuenavoluntad@hotmail.com