The main purpose of the project is to improve the socio-educational action of care and accompaniment of young people in a situation of vulnerability. The phenomenon of social exclusion continues to worsen, in Europe and Latin America, and situations of violation of the rights of the most vulnerable populations are increasing, particularly among young people living on the streets, who are often isolated and far from socio-educational services. The numbers of street children in partner countries remain very high due to the high level of poverty and extreme poverty. Although this scourge is greater among boys and young men in all partner countries, girls suffer different consequences from being on the streets, such as rape, abuse, exploitation, unwanted pregnancies and abortions, while boys are linked to armed groups, drug dealing and other anti-social behaviour. For this reason, it is urgent to work on street education from a gender perspective that seeks to give differential attention to girls and boys according to their gender conditions, with liberating and non-sexist pedagogies. The partners in the AMERICAS project are trying to work out together local responses to increasingly global forms of exclusion and the project aims to promote an accompaniment of marginalized groups through the Methodology of Street Education, that seeks to find the young person in the place where he or she lives and to build an educational relationship based on trust and that favours emancipation. Giving this methodology a rights-based approach and considering these young people as subjects of rights and not just objects of those rights is a message of political advocacy that the AMERICAS project wants to reinforce. The consortium plans to implement an international strategy that will lead to the following specific goals:- To strengthen, through training and exchange of good practices between peers, the skills and competences of hundreds of youth workers around the world in the approach of rights and gender equality in Street Education (micro level).- To strengthen the local, regional and international networks of street educators who use the rights and gender equality approach in street education (meso level)- Carry out advocacy and awareness-raising actions that should lead decision-makers in partner countries to strengthen, in the long term, the legal framework for the recognition of the rights and gender equality approach in street education (macro level).
Strengthen the skills of Youth Workers in the focus on rights and gender equality in social street education; improve policies related to social & youth work in each partner country with a focus on human rights & gender equality; create a multiplier effect by raising awareness and generating new competencies in other organisations involved in social street work, both inside & outside the network of social educators; generate good prapractice that focus on rights based approach & gender equality
Asociación Navarra Nuevo Futuro (Spain), Conversas Associação Internacional (Portugal), Dynamo International (Belgium), Asociación Mi Rancho (Bolivia), Associação de Educadores Sociais de Maringuá (Brasil), Corporación Educativa Combos (Colombia), Fundación Somos Calle Ecuador (Ecuador), Asociación Siembra Bien (Guatemala) & Centro Transitorio de Capacitación y Educación Recreativa El Caracol (Mexico) participated in a project to enrich and strengthen social street education in these countries.
<< Background >> Asociación Navarra Nuevo Futuro (Spain), Conversas Associação Internacional (Portugal), Dynamo International (Belgium), Asociación Mi Rancho (Bolivia), Associação de Educadores Sociais de Maringuá (Brasil), Corporación Educativa Combos (Colombia), Fundación Somos Calle Ecuador (Ecuador), Asociación Siembra Bien (Guatemala) & Centro Transitorio de Capacitación y Educación Recreativa El Caracol (Mexico) participated in a project to enrich and strengthen social street education in these countries. << Objectives >> Strengthen the skills of Youth Workers in the focus on rights and gender equality in social street education; improve policies related to social & youth work in each partner country with a focus on human rights & gender equality; create a multiplier effect by raising awareness and generating new competencies in other organisations involved in social street work, both inside & outside the network of social educators; generate good prapractice that focus on rights based approach & gender equality << Implementation >> The project was implemented using a methodological model that required constant synergy between training, strengthening local and international networks of social street educators, communication and awareness raising, and advocacy. Activities were carried out using active and participatory techniques so that cooperation, communication, and the exchange of best practices became the main knowledge-producing force in favour of disadvantaged populations in social and educational work with youth. << Results >> Improved skills for youth and social workers and educators with international training & two guides: a best practice guide on incorporating rights based & gender approach in social street work (practical examples), & a guide on the theory behind the practice; local, national, & international networks of organisation that carry out social street work were strengthened through national workshops; international awareness raising campaign “#EducacaciónSocialDeCalle" & multiple advocacy activities