| Peru Projects: Adolescent Recreation | ||||
Promoting Recreational Initiatives for Adolescents Project, |
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Adolescents living in the urban slums of Chiclayo have a culture that is informed by drugs, delinquency, alcoholism, gangs and unwanted pregnancies. Recreational opportunities that could provide healthy and more meaningful alternatives are non-existent. Heart-Links funded the first year of this project in partnership with the Santa Angela Centre. Based on a progressive community development model, it aimed to develop skills in adolescent leaders |
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| with training including workshops in public speaking; communication and assertiveness; positive and inclusive leadership. The adolescent participants then focused on sensitizing parents, teachers, local authorities and institutions to the significance of positive recreational programs in the lives of the community’s adolescents. Sample recreation programs were then developed and offered by the program participants in three other troubled neighbourhoods. Armed with a sense of solidarity with other adolescents, a greater understanding of the problems of their own district and how to address them, and some parental support, the thirty trained adolescent leaders are now working with local political and educational authorities to develop specific, long-term recreational programs. Together they are creating their futures. | ||||
“The workshop I liked most was “Public Speaking and Theatre” because the teacher was very patient, friendly and the workshop was developed in a pleasant and practical way.” |
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