Connections and actors:
Entrances:
Streets as places:
Resiliant community:
NGO
T.E.P.E.:
the only non-profit organization that take care of the children in La
Otra Banda. The children
can visit and stay at the organization for free. Their goal
is to increase
the quality of
life for children who come from poorer
families in the neighborhood. The
center is open in the morning hours because it wants to aim
children who go to school in the afternoon (usually a sign of lower
class).
Families (people of La Otra Banda): from the statistic
gather in La Otra Banda, we can tell, that women are in slight
majority in this city quarter. In the living room of La Otra Banda
the proportions between male and females are almost equal, however
women tend to be in slight majority.
The children are huge group of the inhabitants in La Otra Banda. The
citizens in age from 0 to 17 constitute over 65 percent of all
inhabitants in this city quarters. People in productive age (from 18
till 64) constitute only around 20 percent while elderly around 15
percent. From those statistic we can tell that children with their
families (and most important mothers) are very important stakeholders
in the region.
From the statistic we also find out that most of the people in La
Otra Banda (around 60 percent) is working and another 5 percent are
actively looking for a job. Big percent of the inhabitants in La Otra
Banda in the statistics is marked as occupationally inactive (around
35 percent). To this group can belong the elderly who reached their
retainment age and most probably women – mothers, who decided to
become stay home mothers and take care of their children or have
unregistered occupation, e.g. selling newspapers, cleaning cars, etc.
The NGO T.E.P.E. is to our knowledge the only private actor who deals
with social family issues in La Otra Banda. It would be important to
build on the work the T.E.P.E. has already done and is still doing
and support the NGO in their further work and help them find ideas
for new approaches and financing of their projects.
Right now that T.E.P.E. finances its project with the money from
different foundations, for which they need to apply. In order to
receive the money the NGO must fulfill certain criteria required by
particular foundation. The project must consider specific social
issue what limits the T.E.P.E. in their work. The NGO would like to
be more independent, receive independent foundating to carry out
project they hold as important and not necessary the ones which fit
into criteria of the foundations.
The first step in the approach would be to find alternative financing
sources for T.E.P.E. One of them could be fundraising by private
persons. It is important to remember that foundrising is approach
that don't bring the profits straight away but needs time to develop.
That is way it would be important for T.E.P.E. in the beginning of
the process not to relay completely on this form of financing, but to
still apply for founds. In the first year only small project could be
finance with money received from the donors. The complete fundrising
strategy can be develop after approving of this approach in the
Morita team.
Using the money from fundrising, T.E.P.E. could introduce some new
projects that would lead to strengthening of the families (e.g.
through reducing or eliminating domestic violence) and empowerment
of women in La Otra Banda. Examples of possible new projects:
1) domestic violence prevention
2) sexual education at schools for female students (protected sex,
providing condoms for female students, what are other methods of
anti-conception, how can the girls have access to it)
3) sexual education/consultation in schools or outside of it. It
lead to higher age when the women get pregnant and through that
increase their education (women stay at school).
4) free medical care (e.g. once a month) in relation to sexual health
Women are the homemakers. If the house is to be strong and resilient,
the women need to be strong and empowered. The women who are involve with T.E.P.E. could organize one of the
festivals in La Otra Banda (women and children festival?).
During the festival T.E.P.E. could display their different projects,
which on the one hand could work as advertisement and on the other
spread awareness of different social issues in the neighborhood. The
festival could also be used to collect donation for further work of
the NGO.
