The Protective and Reliable Educational Environments Program (ECO) strengthens and consolidates an alliance with six schools in the town of San Cristóbal for the construction of peace and healthy coexistence through art, sports and culture.
The name of YEARS corresponds to the union of the initials of the names of six schools in the town of San Cristóbal that formed a network that bets on coexistence with art, sports and culture: Juan Evangelista Gomez, AUnified Germany, The Rodeo, Aholds, The Vvictory and EBetween Clouds.
San Cristóbal is an area of the city that welcomes a great population diversity, different experiences, knowledge and ways of relating to their communities. This population amalgam can generate tensions that, many times, translate into discrimination, stigmatization, fractures and cultural uprooting.
Adding to this, the differences coexist in spaces marked by poverty and exclusion and social problems associated with security and coexistence that affect the territory can be detached from them. To deal with these situations, these six schools created ‘JARAVE: Medicine for coexistence’.
This alliance aims to generate an articulated strategy that contributes to the collective understanding of problems that allows the consolidation of an alliance between Educational Institutions aimed at the construction of scenarios of peace and healthy coexistence through actions framed in art, sport and culture.
JARAVE was able to materialize thanks to the arrival of the ECO Program, through the Shared Educational Environments component, which establishes the parameters to be taken into account to design this initiative that has improved relations between schools and the surrounding community. and begins to promote the peaceful resolution of conflicts and the appropriation, resignification and care of the educational environment.
The network was made known with the educational communities of the town of San Cristóbal and it is expected that it will generate trust and spaces for articulation that will allow direct and positive influence in the territory.
Also, it is sought that through this alliance a sustainable process is originated, that is maintained and lasts over time and that encourages other educational institutions to work jointly for safer and more reliable environments.
In short, it is hoped that with JARAVE scenarios can be promoted that strengthen social and community relationships and ties, under criteria and practices of equal rights, elimination of stereotypes and stigmatization and, in turn, generate alternatives for the appropriation of space once morest to the social context that puts local children and adolescents at risk.
In the coming weeks, six macro activities will be developed that will promote the safest and most reliable environments in San Cristóbal, through gender equality, the visibility of ancestral knowledge and the stories or experiences of those who inhabit the locality. The idea is to reduce the stigmatization of certain communities and generate behaviors aimed at the peaceful resolution of conflicts.