The Country of Boys and Girls
A Model for Participation and Child Leadership
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7721/chilyoutenvi.17.2.0170Keywords:
children's rights, child-centered community development, Colombia, child leadership, organizational processes, child participation, youth participationAbstract
*Focus on Latin America | Reports for the Field
This report describes the Country of Boys and Girls Project in the city of Santiago de Cali, in the Department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia, which was supported by Plan International, and executed by the Foundation for Dance and Life.
The project was a real exercise in child participation through which boys and girls had the opportunity to become recognized social agents and visible subjects of development who interact with other community agents to transform their reality, starting from the perspective of children’s rights.
The intervention process was based on four strategies: Approximation of the MicroReality; Education on Children’s Integral Development; Organization for Action; and Inter-Institutional and Community Involvement. The project relied on youth-child interaction and a “learning by playing” pedagogical process.
