Spain
Navarra

Guidance and training to 60 women at risk of social exclusion and vulnerability to help them to overcome poverty
AIM: The project is aimed at the social and labour market integration of African migrant women at risk of social exclusion; an invisible group of trafficking women, victims of sexual exploitation, and victims of gender-based violence. The workshops are designed to increase their employability and empowerment, thus allowing them to access to the labour market in standardized companies, so that they can achieve economic and personal self-sufficiency. The project seeks to facilitate their access through actions that combine vocational guidance and counselling (care of children and the elderly, home management,..), with training and job-search assistance (preparing a resumé, practicing for interviews…).
ACTIVITIES: FAMILY AND PERSON Workshop. The workshop approaches the self-concept, improving the self-esteem, and guidelines to educate children and encourage communication within families. BASIC SEWING AND CRAFTS Workshop. The workshop aims to create an area to share crafts and art, helping the participants to explore their creativity and to develop their individual abilities. LABOUR INTEGRATION Workshop.
IMPACT: Villa Teresita serves annually more than 180 women in Navarra (with more than 300 children in their care). The project responds to the terrible situation of isolation and exclusion suffered by a group of African immigrant women in Navarra. They are young women between 18 and 35, who have been introduced against their will in the world of trafficking, due to the extreme poverty of their families. The project faces this situation with a dynamic personalized support. They are all seen as individuals, and are accompanied on a personal journey where everyone is valued as a person. They gradually recover their self-esteem, and they are given tools with which to fight to get ahead themselves and their children. Children and their mothers are the key elements of the project. In Villa Teresita it emerges that the lack of affection and violence suffered in childhood make these mothers tend to reproduce patterns of emotional deprivation with their children, and sometimes violent treatment.

School Support Project
AIM: Ensuring that all children have access to quality education. Ensuring that children can live a healthy leisure and facilitate their social inclusion in the community. Ensuring that immigrants who have not learned the official language, can acquire it and thus make a better follow-up to the education of their children, supporting them in their studies, and at the same time expanding their own networks of relationships for a better integration in the community, thus easing the social inclusion of their children.
ACTIVITIES: Voluntary service in the schools of Santa Catalina, Blessed Sacrament, Carmelites, and the parish of San Fermin and the parish of San Francisco Javier. We have provided school support and follow-up in the tasks and studies to children who for various reasons have less opportunities, or whose families show difficulties for follow up. Volunteers go 1/2 days to the corresponding centers to perform support and personalised monitoring. The Foundation works in coordination with the coaches/guardians of the educational centers or the person responsible for the institutions.
IMPACT: The schools confirmed an improvement not only in the marks but also on the acquisition of work habits by children participating in the program.

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