Spain
Navarra

TARGET: The project is aimed at the social and labour market integration of African migrant women at risk of social exclusion. 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.
MAIN 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.
“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…)”.
IMPACT: Villa Teresita serves annually more than 180 women in Navarra (with more than 300 children in their care). The project responds to the 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.