Love, food, education for 100 children in Bogota

Dear friends: in this period we have managed to expand our work with more allies. What we see is that if we manage to strengthen ties with public and/or private actors who also do work in the territory, we will be able to reach more people in the community. That is one of our purposes in this new time.

As we had shared with you, our work today is also very focused on impacting the lives of families because we know that a high percentage of them are led by women. We know that if we develop support work with them, the problems that children and young people face can have another type of coping. One that has a positive impact in the medium and long term because their grandmothers and mothers will have better tools to develop their own life projects.

In these three months some of the most relevant actions that we have developed are the following:

Welcome to the FPT community: This activity took place on March 16. Around 240 people in total participated. That was a space where we could share with children, young people and adults the new reorganization of the FPT. Didactically, the scenarios were marked by the circus, music, science, and literature. Through these devices, the community understood much more the characteristics of the 4 change processes that we are promoting.

Explorarte training process: In an alliance with a public entity we developed two artistic training scenarios: one in photography and the other in urban art. Around 30 people participated in this space, including children, young people and adults. The intergenerational dialogue unleashed creativity and strengthened everyone's sensitivity and plastic and audiovisual skills. This activity just closed on June 30 with an exhibition where participants were able to share their works with their families.

Training processes for the FPT human team: With a view to increasing the pedagogical and political capabilities of the team that makes up the institution, as well as developing skills to collectively manage economic funds for the implementation of the programs, we have carried out a process with external consultants to training people on different fronts and we continue to move forward. For now we have managed to complete two very specific projects for the development of actions with the migrant population to be carried out within four months.

Cooking training process: From January to June 30, 25 young people between 16 and 28 years of age received training through 10 training modules on topics related to cooking and barista. In August they will be receiving their certification. In their training, they also managed to participate in a pedagogical outing to a municipality near the city of Bogotá to learn more about a clean cultivation experience with a community of neo-farmers.

We advance our processes with the aim of continuing to build new realities.