I am Colombian and I am now
living in the equator
I want to share a little of my
work experience in the field
social of my experience and what I have
learned from working in my country and in
different countries of Latin America
I chose to work in the field of
educational pedagogy because I always tried
to understand why
we exclude some people from the
society as street children like
the people who are in the centers of
imprisonment as working women
sexual and and are usually rejected
I always said ‘well I want to work
for those people who do not understand why
they live what they live
I think many of us
We ask a question or this question in
a moment of our life and that is why
I am here, who am I, why am I going to
do well in this society and went to
through my career where I went
discovering that ability to enter
the other’s world of recognizing it and of
start discovering my country I had the
possibility to participate in a workshop
what a person who came from Norway did
of england first and after
Norwegian about a program called
international program for
childhood development
I had already worked in the field of
reeducation some years when I heard
this workshop of this presentation something
inside of me he clicked and I said my country
you need something like this
children need something like this the
fathers mothers caregivers
teachers
mining companies need this and mediates the task
to train me to train myself on this
program and we achieved in a short time
bring it to Colombia
this is part of the work that
we develop in many departments of
our country in war zones because
you know that colombia lives a
situation of very strong violence and
despite the peace treaty
the war is not over and it continues
living of great violence and that’s why
there are so many refugees now Colombian
in his country
with this international program for
childhood development I had the
opportunity to discover my country I
regions and my people and to recognize something
very valuable and simple that is like going back
to rescue the good relations between
adults and caregivers among
children between the teacher and his students
because sometimes we choose many
professions that have to do with the
the other with the deal with the other but it
we forget something and it is to return to the simple
to the basics and is to be sensitive with the
another as a human being
many teachers and many teachers choose
be pedagogues and neil choose to be
graduates but sometimes they forget
how fundamental is your profession and
we teach ourselves to give class and meet
with the chair and give the subject but
he forgets that there is in front of us
we have human beings we have children
we have girls who have problems that
they have conflicts that have needs
emotional and that many times in their
homes do not have it and that one that is there
as a teacher as a gardener
caregiver to that person who is there
can do a lot for what is said to
that child for that young man to
self-confidence
It is proven that the best investment
we can do is invest in
early childhood
we started working on
Colombia long before there was the
general policy of early childhood that
now it works and it was very interesting
because there was a common denominator when
we traveled all over the country with our
team of five professionals in
different areas to train and it was
find us that 99 percent of
who were in these workshops
training of those who participated in
our meetings in the institutions
educational and so on were always women
because the woman has that gift of feeling
more easily to the other of wanting to give
of wanting to change wanting to modify
their conditions do not matter the level in
who is
especially in these communities in
Colombia where we share and
we traveled and the motivation was always
the boys and the girls
these women empowered from their roles
teacher community leaders mothers
Community always wanting to learn
and want to change and want to modify with
this program that we implement more
in more than ten departments in Colombia
working in war zones and other
not
in association with many organizations of
from our country secretariat of education
secretariat of health universities and
other international organizations
also unicef fire and has been one of
the elderly support people or
institutions that have supported our
I work in different parts and since
Colombia said irradiating one serra
other countries guatemala salvador bolivia
Peru
also brazil transmitting this
message of carrying good practices
of parenting towards boys and girls
towards improving the interaction improve the
communication in families preventing
the violence
preventing violence in school
preventing violence in the home
motivating the mother fathers and
parents become more involved in their real role
of raising their children
We work with the Hey at the beginning of
a model for the intervention of
reincorporated in our country and it was a
very interesting pilot experience and that
He left us great lessons because
I had traveled many areas of my country
where he had guerrilla checkpoints and
I had to explain what I was doing and why
I went to the countryside to work with women
and with parents and with the teachers of
the rural areas
when we face this new challenge
of work with reincorporated was very
interesting because one always
questions so much violence that has
affected to sing population to the
indigenous people in the chocó in the area of
coast
also in the area of nariño in the area
coastal of Nariño is very strong yet
there is a great situation of violence
that’s how when we meet
these parents and mothers reincorporated or
do not question many things but what
was what struck me the most about this
work was to see that they were first very
young people were very young women were
men relatively also very
young people who had decided to take
the guns and listen to their stories of
life listen to your childhood and your experience
it allowed me to understand why
they could easily take a gun and go to
attack other peasants and others
Colombians who really do not understand
why this is happening in your in
your region in your country
that’s how we learned a lot with them
and it was very interesting as you
can read in this short story of a
man where he says
I recently mobilized and did it before
all because my daughter who was suffering
mistreatment of his mother by his stepfather
I wanted to kill him or he is always in
your thinking only I’m going to go to
kill him and kill mom and the person
who was with her enters this program
and the way of seeing the world has changed
the mother handed me the girl and now I
liquid she is everything to me in the reason
of my set and 2 and thanks to this program
because I did not know how to be a father I have my
tools and what he has practiced has
given result and I know I have a lot of love
stop and so there are countless stories
and now I remember one of a teacher who
He had been working for many years in his
profession and when we finish the
training and the workshops and when I went
to make her visit the field she
he said he knows that I had not been around for a long time
I looked at my students in the face
When I arrived I did not notice how it came
I did not notice what his mood was
and now I do and now I feel that
they respond to me in a different way
then it’s with something so simple so
simple are eight guides for a good
interaction that invite you to go looking for
within you tools that are
within us the empathy the
effective tuning the expression of
affect the stimulation to
enrichment of learning a
pleasant and pleasant way with children and
with young people
and so countless stories
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