Yolia niñas de la calle A.C. (MEX-83)


Type: Socially Excluded Groups: Street children - Country: Mexico

Brief description and main aims

The main objective of Yolia is to offer girls who have lived in the streets and are at risk of exploitation and violence, education with a gender focus and based on the preventive system of San Juan Bosco, which favors an integral development and impels them to be protagonists of their own story.

Main Activities

Social Circus
The Social Circus is a pedagogical and social artistic intervention tool that develops physical, artistic and social skills in children, young people, and families.
 
Mobile School
The Mobile School is a tool that helps strengthen and impact the self-esteem of children and young people living in the streets or at vulnerable situations, through positive and creative impulses.
 
Salesian House
The Salesian House is a space of encounter with children, adolescents and young people from the peripheral colonies that look to form values and develop skills to prevent youth to get involved in dangerous situations.
 
The activities offered are:
Workshops: Dance, Music, Drawing, Crafts, Papyrus
Sport activities: Football
 
Children's Center
The Children's Center is an educational space that favors the development of habits, and psychomotor and cognitive skills of children from 1 to 6 years of age, who are children of young mothers in street situations and/or with low resources.
 
Youth Residence
In the Youth Residence, we provide comprehensive care for street girls and adolescents who are unaccompanied migrants, through reinsertion and prevention strategies that promote harmonious development and community participation.
 
Orphanage
We have a residential space that offers security and stability, which contributes to rebuilding the family structure, promoting harmonious development and projecting a dignified life option for girls.

Volunteer tasks

The volunteer is expected to:

  • Pay attention and support the beneficiaries of the program
  • Make visits at intervention spots with the mobile school and social circus
  • Motivate and include children in activities
  • Participate in games with children at intervention spots
  • Participate in the daily activities of the household (preparation of food, accompany girls to school, supervise activities, promote personal hygiene and clean spaces)

Volunteer requirements / Skills

The volunteer must :
  • Be educated
  • Posses human values and practice them
  • Be responsible, sensitive and patient
  • Be willing to learn Spanish very fast

Location

The project is located in Mexico City.

Hosting Situation (Board and Lodging)

The volunteer will live with a host family. 

More Information

Number of volunteers in project: 1

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