Jose Carlos Ramirez
Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla
Crishelen Kurezyn Díaz
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Be a mechanism of protection, security, and freedom for girls and boys without parental care.
Support for infant victims of violence, sexual abuse, abandonment, and mistreatment. Focused on the daughters or sons of mothers in prison, those who are victims of people for sexual exploitation, as well as single mothers who lack support networks.
The German Mexican Volunteer A.C., through its Casa del Sol program, has a commitment and social responsibility to the protection of girls and boys.
Casa del Sol has an institutional and political philosophy that activates family care behaviors that operate under a general objective and three specific objectives; From them, protection standards, protocols, strategies and coexistence agreements emerge to directly impact the problems that affect girls and boys from unfavorable backgrounds.
Casa del Sol's Protection Policy operates to ensure a timely and quality response to psychosocial risks.
Address the priorities of girls and boys, develop appropriate, empathetic and assertive strategies among staff, and finally, involve all staff, volunteers, families of origin and extended families, friendly institutions, the surrounding community and authorities involved in protection.
Under the slogan: “Talking and in Peace”, we work on a liberating pedagogy that provides conflict resolution without violence, in which all staff must be clear about its use to share a message that impacts the lives of girls and boys.
Maricarmen Concha is mainly inspired by community service. She began working as a volunteer at Casa del Sol and, in the last two years, was appointed President.
Contribute to the development of children and their families from violent environments through the development of appropriate skills for constructive dialogue. Communication and interaction free of violence between family members and those with whom they interact is the most appropriate mechanism to resolve differences in coexistence and gradually build healthy environments.
Since the beginning, Casa del Sol has been a model of alternative care:
a) More than 1,400 children have been assisted.
b) More than 1,100 children have been cared for at the Tonatiuhcali Educational Center.
c) The administrative management of the institution allows them to continue operating free of financial and legal risks.
d) Responsible and transparent management allows them to have the physical infrastructure by the institution's objectives: lodging, education, food, and recreation.
e) See details in report 2023: casadelsolpuebla.org/transparencia/
Through various activities, Casa del Sol is an institution that allows it to aspire to project itself as a self-sustaining organization.
Creating the participatory parenting model allows the institution to obtain national and international recognition in childcare.
A) At the end of 2023, the institution has a total liabilities and capital of more than 400 thousand dollars.
B) Maintains a program of campaigns that facilitate the institution's permanence, such as auctions, solecito scholarships, donations in kind, corporate volunteers, a bazaar, and a race for children's rights.
C) 23 full-time employees who carry out the operations of Casa del Sol: administrative, educational, specialized therapists, kitchen, security, cleaning, etc.
D) The national and international volunteer group amounts to 164 people: 155 women (6 German, 1 Spanish) and 2 men.
E) Agreements with other educational and childcare institutions.
F) They developed an intervention model in childcare that has allowed them to be a reference in social assistance centers and the generation of solutions for treating and preventing childhood violence.
Childhood violence is a scourge that affects the present and future of society, particularly in Mexico. The levels of violence that have been experienced in the country for decades are accompanied by the breakdown of the social network and the nuclear family, which triggers poverty for the most fragile sector of the population, children.
The destruction of homes, derived from multiple social, economic, and political factors, has led to the future of the country's children being seriously compromised. Without childhood, there is no future; without a healthy childhood, there will be no peace.
The participation of society in solving this challenge is vital; we cannot wait for the government and its institutions to solve the entire problem. This is why organizations like Casa del Sol represent responsible and committed management of the crisis of violence, hunger, and education that children are experiencing.
The care of “the common home” (Pope Francis) is a demand that responds to the violence of human beings in their environment, and Casa del Sol includes this in its educational and rehabilitation program.
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Protect and develop vulnerable children within a safe and harmonious environment to enhance their cognitive, socio-emotional, and psychoeducational skills.
