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In 2001, ICDP
was invited to run a training programme for teachers from the ‘Vida
Plena’ preschool in Asuncion. Among other participants there
were professionals from 5 different institutions working with children.
In Vida Plena, the ICDP programme was first incorporated by the
team of trained preschool teachers in their daily interactive routines
with children. Gradually the same team of facilitators, led by Benita
Gavilan, started to implement ICDP with the parents and families
from the poor local community.
During 2003, they gave ICDP courses, which were followed up with
field visits to caregivers working in 3 institutions: 1. Centre
for adoption of babies; 2. Catholic home for ex-street boys; 3.
Community day centre for young children. As result of the training
20 new promoters were formed, who reached 530 children with the
programme. The work continued in 2004.
Institutionalized orphans and abandoned children
Also during 2004 a new
project was developed in cooperation with UNICEF Paraguay, in a
poor and remote area in the north of the country.
Developments
in 2005:
The ICDP courses
run by Benita Gavilan and her ICDP team received positive evaluation
by the Ministry for Public Health and Social Services Institute.
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A number of new training
courses delivered to future kindergarten teachers took place in
a small town 100 km from Asuncion, financed by Fondo Canada.
During 2006 the ICDP
team led by Elisabeth Gavilan developed a new project for low income
families in Villeta, and in Eusebio Ayala, where latent violence
marks the general atmosphere. ICDP successfully generated an affectionate
parenting style in the participants who also forged friendships
among each other and became motivated to develop micro enterprises
together to and set up day centres for their children. In another
project 28 students applied the ICDP methodology directly with groups
of young children and families. In total 225 children and 79 families
were reached.
Year
2007
A new ICDP project developed
in the Asunción wholesalers' market, in a day care centre
for working children. It aims to reach children’s parents
and to raise standards of care with the ICDP methodology, by training
leaders, counsellors and volunteers.
Year 2008:
A new ICDP
initiative developed in the town of Villeta, 45 km south of Asuncion
sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank. ICDP meetings took
place throughout the year with 40 families and children. Direct
observation, supported by photographs and evaluations by
participants, showed that as result of ICDP caregivers talk more
with their children, practice more physical proximity and have more
eye contact with them. In another project, in the Day care centre,
situated near the Central Market of Asunción, 4 teachers, trained in
2007, continued to apply ICDP with 80 children and teenagers. The
future challenge consists in finding ways of reaching the children’s
parents, grandmothers and neighbours and offering them ICDP
sensitization courses.
Year 2009:
In 2009 the
national Ministry for Children started sponsoring ICDP interventions
in 3 homes for children and the Interamerican Development Bank
funded a project in Villeta for 40 Guaraní speaking families. The
evaluation showed that as result of ICDP caregivers talk more with
their children, practice more physical proximity and have more eye
contact.
Year 2010:
ICDP trainer
Benita Gavilan:
- Together with a
Swedish expert from an organization called TAMAM, we have been working
on a strategic plan for our foundation "Vida Plena", hoping to scale
up ICDP developments in this country.
We are trying to
improve our NGO profile and increase our fundraising efforts, and we
hope to have more people involved with our organization. TAMAM is a
support organization, whose main task is helping the integration of
immigrant children and youth in Sweden, but they also have an outreach
program outside Sweden.
Educator
and children removing weeds and old boxes from our space
They contacted us
in 2008 and have so far sent three people to accompany our work in the
Day-care Centre for children in the Asunción Gross Market area -
read previous report by a volunteer. TAMAM have also provided
funding for children's outings and have organized an interchange of
volunteers. We are continuing to hold ICDP sensitization meetings with
the parents of the market children and we are also giving ICDP
training on regular basis to the educators in the Day-care Centre.
We have recently
started organizing additional courses for the parents developing their
skills in handicrafts, in the hope of increasing their source of
income. Follow the link to read a previously written report by a
volunteer:
http://www.icdp.info/VidaPlenareport.pdf
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