ADULTS-FAMILIES PROGRAMME
From hardship to human promotion

At the Social Service we are working for over 300 people, offering workshops, social containment spaces, alimentary support and following the families closely in their specific set of problems.

Monitoring communities are developed at the Social Promotion Workshops, groups which help to promote the integral development of people. The last matters that were tackled by the workshops were the dignity and the deepening of the bonds between members of the groups, which generate confidence and commitment with their own problems and those of others in the community.

Due to the Project’s success, the activities of the Capilla del Pilar, located around 20 blocks away from EnAcción headquarters, were extended. There, the workshops and the alimentary support are being offered to a new group of 100 people, apart from the 190 people that already took part in the Project. This was possible thanks to the incorporation of a Social Worker to the Adult-Families Program team, who will be in charge of the activities.

At the Social Service, an interdisciplinary team formed by Social Workers, Psychologists and Political Sciences Specialists, weekly follows closely specific set of problems, assessing different solutions and referring the cases to judicial instances or specialized institutions, performing a follow up of the whole process. Recently, connection was made with a foundation so that a girl who suffered from scoliosis (spine deviation) could get an orthopedic corset for her treatment.

Finally, through an agreement with the District Court, for 3 years the lawyers assisted the people at the EnAcción facilities. Now, the Itinerant Public Defender Office of the San Martin Court moved just a few blocks away to continue their assistance to the neighbourhood people.

INTERVIEW TO ALE GABBIANI
"The neighbourhood took the first step, the people got involved"

Alejandra Gabbiani, ‘Ale’, moved to the land where she has lived for 13 years, first in a hut and then in their own house built little by little. Tíreless participant of workshops and groups, along with Cruz – her husband – they have 6 children, and she always accompany them in the activities they take on.

Ale was born and was raised on the other side of Route 8, about 15 blocks from where she lives now. Cruz, her husband, lived one and a half block from her, but they started dating only when they met in high school. Their eldest daughters are studying Physical Education and teacher of kindergarden , and the youngest are in primary school and in an industrial school.

Cruz has been working in a factory of car spare parts for 10 years, in the night shift. Ale worked in a factory of cookies, and after that in a printing press. “I quit working when I started to have children, in order to be able to be with them. They need you, now that they are teenagers too, to be with them, to see what they are up to.”

“My children started to participate in the activities of En Accion, they came to tell me all about it.” “And that is how, as a mom, I gradually got involved in every activity they took on and helped in what was necessary.”, tells Ale, who is never still. “I later took on the New Women course. It was not easy to get started because I am not used to talk about my private issues with people I do not know, but it was 3 years of learning and a lot of other stuff. We were given tools, and it is up to you to see how you make use of them.”

From there on, Ale decided to keep participating, and as a member of the group of New Women Graduates she is always alert to anything that can arise. Besides, she enrolled in the macramé (a kind of knitting) workshop, and formed groups of micro entrepreneurship: “I always help to organize things, bingos, parties, concerts. I am always there to take the chairs and put them in order, I have always liked to get involved”.

“Some parents take their children and leave. They began to come to see what is all about, and started to get involved and to collaborate in order to help professors and to get everything done correctly. You relate differently to other people through football and other activities. Thus, a nice group of cooperating parents was born”.

“Near here - where I was born – there are always 20 kids at the corner drinking wine and on drugs. I know their parents, we grew up together. But in this neighbourhood that does not happen, I am confident about the future of the children participating in En Acción. Young people who go to the University are not seen like freaks any more, and I see the neighbourhood in good state. We have given the first great step, once people are involved, that’s it” .

News in pictures

ADULTS-FAMILIES PROGRAMME: as the other groups, people of the third age received the first issue of the bulletin; the groups helped with the organization of the “Peña Folklorica”. +photographs

YOUTH PROGRAMME: Young Education’s mensual meeting; parents’ meeting on Sports Project; rehearsal for the performance of the Music Workshop. +photographs

CHILDREN PROGRAME: new phonoaudiologist and admittance in the Mental Health Service; workshops on nutrition dealing with anaemia; plenty of children in the Playing Project. +photographs