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Strategies and action

Strategies and action 

On this page you will find a brief summary of CESESMA's principal strategies and interventions, as set out in our Strategic Plan 2004-2008.

Using the sub-menu on the left, and/or the various links below, you can read further information on each strategy and the current activities we are carrying out in partnership with the children, young people and other community members.

 

You can also find photographs of these activities in our Photo Album.


Training promotores/as

We believe that every child and young person has experience that makes them unique and special. These life experiences form the basis for a training programme that starts from their existing awareness, enabling them to build new knowledge, skills and capacities.

To build on this basis we take as a central theme the promotion and defence of their rights, taking account of the context, and offering new learning opportunities that will open up new options in the future. With these new skills and knowledge, the young people are ready to take on the role of Community Educators (promotores), strengthening community organisation, and sharing skills and ideas with other children and young people according to their interests.

The current programmes are:

Click here to read more about CESESMA's training programmes for promotores/as


Informal education with children

In each community the promotores/as organise children's activity groups on a range of relevant topics which children and young people join according to their interests. These groups include both children and young people who attend school, and those who are outside the school system, thus encouraging interaction between school and community.

The young promotores and promotoras who run the children's activity groups have themselves been trained through CESESMA's Promotores/as' Training Programmes: FOCAPEC, Girls' and Young Women's Network, and FOPAE.

The current range of activity groups includes:

  • Traditional dance

  • Children's reading programme

  • Crafts: crochet, knitting, embroidery, macramé, artificial flowers

  • Organic agriculture groups

There are also arts and media groups, as part of our Media and Communications strategy
  • Youth theatre

  • Radio

  • Puppets

  • Mural-painting.

And vocational training courses: Dress-making, bee-keeping, carpentry.

Click here to read more about CESESMA's informal education work with children


Vocational training

Children and young people join local groups where they can train in organic agriculture, crafts and cultural activities, which contribute to the development of new skills and capacities. These provide them with alternative choices in life, in terms of both personal and economic development.

We currently have courses in

  • Dress-making

  • Carpentry

  • Bee-keeping

  • Embroidery

  • Organic Farming

Click here to read more about CESESMA's vocational training programmes


Adult education

We provide training for parents, teachers and community leaders, to promote changes in established practices and ways of thinking that devalue of marginalise children and young people, ignoring or infringing their rights.

Current programmes include:

Click here to read more about CESESMA's work in adult education


Organic farming

Diversification of family kitchen gardens contributes to improved nutrition and better health. If carried out using organic farming techniques, it also helps to protect the environment. Therefore CESESMA promotes organic vegetable-growing, encouraging people to make the most of the resources already available in their communities. We run training programmes and provide ongoing technical support to help the young educators develop their knowledge of organic food-growing, and pass on practical gardening skills to others in their community.

Current activities include:

  • School and community vegetable gardens, supporting children  and young people tending family vegetable plots

  • Cookery and Nutrition course

  • Promoting natural medicine through medicinal plants

  • Associativity: chaya growing, bee-keeping, poultry-farming

Click here to read more about CESESMA's organic farming programme


Media and communications

The social communication and media strategy makes use of a variety of communication media to promote educational processes inside and  outside the communities, in order to inform, raise awareness and publicise issues. 

The media we currently work with include:

  • Youth theatre

  • Children's Radio Programme

  • Puppetry

  • Mural painting.

We also support the young people in communicating social messages through street parades, campaigns, community fairs and festivals.

Click here to read more about CESESMA's media and communications programmes


Networking and alliance-building

Networks and alliances are established at local, municipal, departmental and national level, in order to combine efforts in the promotion and defence of children's rights. This diagram summarises CESESMA's networks and alliances at different levels (sorry we do not have the diagram available in English).

Our goal is that the children and young people themselves participate directly in these forums, presenting their own proposals, making their demands, promoting and defending their own rights.

Click here to read more about CESESMA's networking and alliance-building


Associativity

A new strategy, which is not included in our Strategic Plan

We are developing the Associativity programme as a new strategy to meet the changing needs of the young people as they grow up. Through the establishment of "Associativities" or small business co-operatives, we are helping to provide alternative economic opportunities, thus making it possible for them to remain in their communities and continue contributing to their development.

The first associativity projects to be set up are: poultry farms (11), chaya farms (4), bee-keeping projects (6) and dress-making groups (3).

Click here to read more about CESESMA's Associativity programme


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