In
July CODENI opened the area of Empowerment with the objective of promoting
critical thought among our participants, thereby empowering them to make
decisions to overcome poverty and improve their quality of life.
Maira
Deni offers empowerment workshops with each age group (children, teens and
parents), where participants are able to detect and plan a way to access
different opportunities and thus accomplish short, medium and long-term goals.
Among
the different activities in the workshops are dynamics to strengthen
self-esteem and empathy with the activity “Drawing my strengths” in which
participants draw their silhouettes on butcher paper which their classmates fill
with strengths and other positive qualities that they identify in each
participant.
Other
dynamics have come from the concerns and interests of the participants, such as
a fieldtrip to a local museum where they came up with ideas for future
dynamics.
In the
words of Maira Deni, “the activities in the area of Empowerment contribute
little by little to the participants’ ability to freely express their desires
and aspirations, motivating them to set and accomplish goals and take
responsibility for their actions and decisions, in other words, empower
themselves.”
There are no limits for what CODENI participants can accomplish!
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