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  Luciano Iramain - General Coordinator |
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| INDEX Children Programme - Games, sports and readings are laid on for the youngest |
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| Interview to Maxi Guerra - "I also have to contribute with something from myself" |
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Children can enjoy a wide range of activities aimed at their intellectual and physical growth. During the whole week, including the weekends, “El Campito”, “Recreational Programme” and “Children’s library” work on different aspects of their personal development. Children can take part in many wide-ranging activities on the “Children Programme”. The aim of these activities is to make children interact among themselves and with adults enjoying and developing intellectual and physical abilities, and creative aspects playing games, making drawings, and playing with cards and jigsaws. To make this possible, the “Creative Programme” works on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This year the opening activities of the programme started before scheduled time because of children’s enthusiasm and insistence. Additionally, children bring toys they find, or fix those which are broken. Through recreational activities, they also develop a sense of identity and improve their behaviour. There is the case of a girl who started the 1st grade with behavioural problems because she missed the special places she was used to in kindergarten. Through the “Recreational Programme” it was possible to observe, deal with and improve her development within the classroom. “El Campito” is another activity aimed at the children. Every Sunday about 120 children spend all morning there playing sports and performing different activities. Before the activities start, they have breakfast and at lunch time hamburgers are ready for them. On the other hand, teenagers attending “El Campito” replaced volleyball with handball and they are also working on arts and crafts such us making boxes, necklaces and paintings. Last Sunday, two French volunteers, who had been taking part in the “Recreational Programme”, performed plays with puppets for the children. As regards children’s library, it is being decorated and shelves are being installed so as to put books on them. In the library every child can have contact with written material according to their needs. For example, the youngest look at the pictures of the books, while the oldest can read, or classify and put the books away. At the same time, they borrow books from the library and read them at home. |
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Maxi ‘Cachi’ Guerra is 19 years old; he is in his second year in Luján University studying Business Administration and has been taking part of the football club for 8 years now. He and his girlfriend, Pamela, are taking more responsibilities every day in the Youth Program. Cachi always lived in the neighbourhood. He started kindergarten at 3, after “pre-school”, EGB and for high school he decided to be transferred to another school. “As I already knew that I was going to study Business Administration I chose the Economics and Organizations Management. Since I was little I wanted to be an Accountant, I knew accountants and I wanted to be like them, and at the University you can take the two careers, it’s only two years more” he says. Cachi and Pamela have been dating for 4 years and two months now. “When we started dating not many of my friends had a girlfriend. It was a little bit difficult, or I thought it was difficult” In time they grew and the couple got more mature: “We get along pretty well with Pamela. Now we see ourselves as a more mature couple. We think more the things we say to each other, we fight less and not for any nonsense. We picture ourselves together in the future”. Most of Cachi’s high school friends are now studying in the University. But most of his friends from the neighbourhood did not finish high school, they only work, some of them have a girlfriend and one of them has a son. “They had trouble in the middle of their lives, others repeated some course at school… they got depressed and dropped out. I think that it is also your family that brings you up and encourages you to study, to pick a career and follow it or they say “Drop school and start working” and my family always insisted “You have to go on studying”. But I think that also the troubles inside families have an influence”. Cachi’s first steps at EnAcción were through football, eight years ago: “I was eleven and came every Saturday to play. Since then a lot of things changed: there are a lot more kids, divisions, balls, lights and we train during the week. We didn’t have such things before but we came anyway, we played all the morning, but what encourages kids the most is playing for the championship on weekends”. “Last year we went to Moreno, with kids of other projects. I got to know many I didn’t even said hello before. Now that started to change. That was the starting point for me to help in the Football Project and to meet a lot of kids of, per instance, Music. They gave us some hints so that we can start taking more responsibility, to help the younger kids, that sort of stuff”. “Now I am coaching the Minor division on Wednesday. They are 15 or 16 years old and sometimes it is hard to make them listen, but I think it is going well; they start to be aware that I am part of the Project’s team. I love football, I love the things that I am doing and the things that others do for the Project, and as they are helping me, I also have to contribute with something from myself”. When he is asked what would happen if EnAcción didn’t exist, Cachi says that most likely he would be studying anyway. “The work done in the neighbourhood really makes a big difference because there are people like me or like my mom that goes to New Women that get to mix with a bunch of other people. I think it helps to get neighbourhood together. If you would start doing something and invite the neighbours they would call you crazy, instead, with this movement we start seeing things differently, things that are done for them, for their children, or for the neighbourhood itself, that is mine and is everyone's”. |
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The issue of “Dignity” in the Social Work Promotion
workshops; the enrolment for New Women is still open; students in
the Third Age group. Computing courses have started; a bass clinic is dictated as part
of the Music Workshop; the Sport area strengthens the work team. Visit to the Malba Museum; Workshop on Anemia, the Ophthalmology
Service provides people with frames and gives discounts on crystals. |
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