Art Workshops

CODENI A.C., runs artistic expression workshop, which fall under the Life Project Program. They are intended to encourage creativity from a collective and individual perspective and promote the development of children and adolescents. This workshop supports a forum of expression where they can translate their thoughts and emotions by living in a healthy and creative world of unlimited expressive art.

The boys, girls and adolescents that are currently attending the workshops are in second phase; their ages range from 11 to 16 years old.

 The workshop is given by the “mairo” Diego Partida             (from Guadalajara, Mexico) and Vanessa Freigtag a Brazilian volunteer.

Currently, we are working with stencils, portraits, drawings, collages, and composition techniques. All of this culminates with the vision to develop their artistic and creative capacities and by this to demonstrate their talent while building confidence.

By: Diego Partida "Art Workshop Mairo".

Street Outreach

Today we are proud to thank all the hard work that the “mairos” (teachers and friends), have accomplished with the girls, boys and adolescents that work in Guadalajara´s downtown area. Today we have a new record of 40 children and adolescents in First phase participating in our street space.

CODENI´S population puts forth huge efforts in attending school, working and also participating in our street workshops, where they receive educational support and participate in recreational games that support their physic development. Having the option of these activities improves their capabilities to socialize and be a part of a very special collective that work to foster.

Street outreach is an educational development and social strengthening area that takes place in Plaza Liberación each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. We support two simultaneous groups with an educational and recreational space that leads activities to get to know the needs of our children and adolescents. Later they can successfully integrate to the second and third phase where CASA CODENI offers more structured activities; by doing this the “mairos” can value the situations the kids and adolescents live on a daily basis.

One of the activities that helps us to know more about their cognitive development is their homework. Additionally, with their drawings, we can appreciate their creativity and expression; through ludic activities and playing soccer for example, we realize their social character.

Each of the previous assessments enables the team work to perceive the needs that require greater intervention and to act adequately. All this is supported by the operational areas including Social Work, Psychology, Education, Workshops, Recreation and Volunteers. We take every chance to get to know our population better.  Through this space, we can develop this conscious and encourage the kids to fulfill their potential and build strong characteristics and skills that will support them in the future.

Our work group has fostered a positive space in Plaza Liberacion in the center of Guadalajara, and it is well recognized for CODENI’s work with the families of our kids and adolescents in downtown area. Not just the children and teenagers attend either, their parents show up and talk with the social worker and have asked for support in various situations. Here we are able to connect mothers to different organizations o institutions that correspond to each situation. In the end, it is invaluable to support and empower the population that we work with.

Thanks to each member of the team that contributes an enormous effort to support CODENI’s activities and projects in our street outreach.

By: Diego Partida "Street Outreach Mairo".

Who is Mairo Tonio?

Juan Antonio Tessada Magaña (Mairo Tonio) received his bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Guadalajara (CUCSH 2003); beginning his studies he learned to undertake himself and the world that surrounds him.
“Learn to learn” recognizes that it is possible to develop a new mentality of understanding and exchange that includes material and intellectual resources. With this understanding developed “Agorá”, an urban comunity space, where through workshops and discovering new forms of sustainability, a new community space was within the city. In the education field, this is a group of thinkers in the forefront of intercultural models of education in the state of Jalisco.
Today, in CODENI, as the General Director, Tonio looks to impact other organizations on a national and international level to address the wide spread vulnerabilities and violations of human rights that affect children and adolescents that CODENI works to accompany and empower.
“Without respect of dignity and personal development one cannot aspire to a solid base of social development which we look to create through collective and community work.”