Santiago Projects for 2011
Our ongoing efforts to help the children in metropolitan Santiago include projects to address bullying activity in selected schools, to provide after school workshops for children in neighborhoods with high levels of violence, and to support community organizations to organize recreational workshops and support services.
Executing Institution: Corporación Siempre Contigo
Project Title: "Anti Bullying Brigades"
Location: San Miguel, Santiago
Grant Value: USD 5,100
This project continues activities started in 2010 addressing a growing problem in educational facilities in Chile: bullying. Corporación Siempre Contigo implements the Anti-Bullying Brigades project in selected schools focusing on its beneficiaries that have attention deficit disorder. Since children with attention deficit disorder are more likely to be aggressors or to be targeted by bullies, the project trains its beneficiaries to apply conflict resolution techniques, in coordination with parents and teachers. Using this approach, the project reduces bullying activity by involving students, especially those with a higher probability of encountering bullying, to improve their own social skills.
Executing Institution: "El Umbral" Centro de Apoyo Juvenil
Project Title: In school, everything is possible!
Location: Maipú, Santiago
Grant Value: USD 4,100
The project works with school children (ages 9 to 13), from the poorest families of Villa Esperanza in Maipú, an area with high delinquency and gang activity. Potential beneficiaries are selected according to their academic and social vulnerability. Bi-weekly after-school workshops offer tools to improve their academic performance and prevent school drop-outs. In addition, the project offers recreational activities to foster adoption of constructive values, respect for each other within the school and within their families, and awareness of the negative consequences associated to drug related behavior and teen-age pregnancy.
Executing Institution: Corporación Moviliza
Project Title: Promoting Protective Environments for Vulnerable Children
Location: El Bosque, Santiago
Grant Value: USD 5,100
Corporación Moviliza, established in 2006, is a community of professionals that seeks to help improve the lives of individuals and groups who live in extreme poverty and vulnerable conditions. This first time project aims to promote an integrated community space to help children who live in Poblacion 4 de Septiembre, a very poor neighborhood of El Bosque district. A coordinated effort among local institutions--Neighborhood Committee, nursery and primary schools, local health services, and parents-- organizes recreational workshops and psychosocial support services, designed to improve the lives of at-risk children.