Good evening, I am elena as they have
said and I am a social educator for
12 years and mom for six and I come
to tell you how a personal experience
changed my way of seeing children and
girls and you are going to allow me
start at the end like the good
stories and in this case I ‘m going to
explain how really the focus of
rights is important at the time of
live with children and with girls I’m going
to ask that you really imagine in
a parking
how many of you have a relationship
with some boy or girl in our
Family environment of friends and others
raise your hand very well presented
you are going to understand this story a bit
imagine in that park sitting in a
bank and you are watching your son
niece granddaughter climb the steps of a
slide that by the way and by itself
some designer here of slides the
steps are bigger than her but
you are looking at her like she
alone tries to raise it and suddenly
another person comes and says he hears that
your little daughter is going up to
just the slide and you stay like that
yes I already know but good for
general tranquility you approach so that
others and others see you that it is
watching closely but nevertheless
another person comes and says he hears that your
daughter in tiny is climbing the
slide and you can fall and then the
mine will want to do it and tell you
good to send to save the world
Bejar to get my daughter down in this
situation that happens very often
it really reminds us that those
fears that eva samuel has spoken
Cristina are not very present in
our life and also limit the
relationship we have with children and
girls and their development and now we start
the story from the beginning
many years ago when I was also
Little girl are always asking you and
what do you want to be
I wanted to be a missionary until
my parents told me that you had to
see with religion and I said good then
I become a social educator and on that path
from being a modern version of Teresa of
calcutta
I had the opportunity to go one year to
Dominican Republic and that was what
it destroyed my whole mind and I’m going to
explain why the cne that the moment
in which everyone told me not to
out because here were very good
things
I have always gone against the current when
I arrived as a social educator
knowing all my knowledge of the
career my practices and others
came with a mental structure of what
that is childhood we can not imagine
always linked to a house a family
a social structure friends school and
others but at that time I had the
opportunity to work with children in
street situation
that changed all my expectations in the
Park
if you remember those people who
they had looked at that childhood had
three looks mine
do it you can the someone else’s
that was do it but carefully and for
last best do not do it just in case
well in this world of street childhood
there are also many fears
you imagine a boy or a girl
living in street like feel and know the
see it to see it in this case I’m going to
explain a little the types of
street childhood that exist there are two
guys are guys and girls that
normally, between 5 and 18 years
they decide to live in the street because they are
orphans have no family or a
educational institution that has
in charge of them and other cases where
yes they have relation with the
families but the lifestyle
street linked to it because
they earn money because they run away
physical or psychological treatment or because
the few economic resources that
they have in the house they make them go out more
the street and on the street they find
difficult situations but also
attractive situations and in this case it is
that at that time although we see the
guys work live in the street for a walk
eat you will understand that they are visible
physically but that really are
invisible to all systems of
protection of the country and especially
education and health
at that time the NGOs
the educational institutions
religious institutions
we followed a welfare model
as we saw the boy and the girl who
I had to be at school or at school
family or in a house
really the first thing we did was
catch the child I catch it and
directly take him to a residence or
return it to your home or convince you of
that this was the best
but what happens when the child does not
they want do not want this you want to stay
in street she decides to live in street how
you work this I was lucky to stay
working with a team that we
we rethink this we said we are not
we can not convince anything
they have to be them and they
decide to change then in that
moment we started to change all
our structure we change our
paradigms and we started to work with
rights approach that is nothing more than
lose mine
in this case we started a plan that
maybe it promoted social inclusion
of boys and girls from their own
decision
from his own conviction from his
own knowledge of the risks that
they ran living on the street and this
we did with four changes in our
way of working
first we did an educational program
based on confidence trust and
he does not judge them, come on, we do not look at them anymore
as guilty or as a cause of the
system we really start to trust
in them and they in us and I’m going to
put an example
we had a day center
where we welcomed them about eight hours
daily in the mornings for a theme of
Basic services offer shower
breakfast meal accompaniment
psychological educational accompaniment and
those and we saw that not all the guys
they came because they were eight hours without
consume eight hours to earn money
eight hours without working eight hours without
sleep so we start very
well this is a center in this center
of course base another lifestyle
we are not going to duplicate what already exists in
street and here you can reduce the
risks as the boys came with their
knives with substances
psychoactive and we leave them in
a space that during those seven eight
hours could not be used therefore
we are generating other opportunities
for eight hours a day
we are reducing risks in your health
that was a common agreement but we
We accept that the weapon and the substances
psychoactive in a day could not be
remove we returned them when they
they went back to the street
second example work on the street because
because we had to know
how was that happy streets process
action when a boy goes out on the street
Saleh has brought the power for something
purchasing
the pressure of group leadership and I
she can not have anyone to tell me
what to do
I say it and the street
is attractive in this case the
workers we went out to the street and
we generate this empathy
We begin to know the causes for
that went out to the street but also
what attracted them we needed
empathy we need to know what is it
that through the third street
we started creating games based on the
street lifestyle you can not
accompany a boy who carries a
so peculiar lifestyle with
school educational programs
you have to generate an educational program
based on your lifestyle
for that we create games games like
bake your health like a great pleasure
case are card games and games of
tests where you know who won the
who cares more in the street if you keep quiet
the box that you had reached the
street without flip flops you stayed three
matches without playing but also
you had consumed others and there was
arrived late to the day center by
have fallen asleep
also your partner could you
overtake and at the end of the game it
it generated a healthy lifestyle
they were games where in addition to that
hadnt also saw that
knowledge and what practices
healthy were on the street they talked
among them many times they said no
because I saw you the other day that you
you were two fears in the street taltal and
you had to assume their
conversations gave us clues of why
where to go in each company and
they wanted to win the game
therefore they had to know all the
rules of how to take better care in the street
there we are also reducing the
risks and finally the team
I shared all these experiences not
we give the systematized the
experience we stayed for
we made analysis equipment and
there is that we said let’s publish
this we are going to share it because there
other social educators in the world
accompanying this type of population and
also making visible the
another way is worth it but especially the
rights approach what gave us the
opportunity is apart from losing those
fears that is was not
developing our kind of
accompaniment
apart from losing the power to accompany the
boy or girl take their best
decisions
first take care of yourself on the street is a
reality
you can not change from one day to another
so the best thing is that the guys
know how to take care of yourself but then it ‘s also
that they know other lifestyles that
say this I do not want it anymore and I know what
produces in my body what they produce
and development
I want another chance I want to go to that
school
I want to go to that institution I want
back with my family but they did not decide
them and so we start
implement the rights approach in the
institution
those rights that many times those of
we see them from convection
convention and that we see ourselves in a
document can be a lifestyle
Well, a lifestyle that helps us
the adults to accompany the children to
make their own decisions but
always with all the information and
conscious way because they are
people who design their own lives
you remember now the girl the park
he made the decision to upload only those
steps and that is larger than
she but climbing alone fell or not
it was an experience that she had
undertaken you know how that will be
person or as it is at that moment the
determined entrepreneur who believes
in itself we do not want people like that
in the world, sincerely, that’s what
that we have to create
we have to create opportunities to the
childhood so they decide in a way
conscious about his life and us
we’ll just stay at the bank
observing and if it falls we will help you and
is correct and we will applaud but really
they will be people who
is currently in this world and that
can you help us make a world more
just more fair and more
participatory
thank you very much
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