Inductions Week 2

 PEACE HOPE EQUALITY LOVE

My second week here in Guayaquil and I went on visits with my JUCONI co-workers  into some of the sectors where I'll be working facilitating CMAP's Club de Arte .  JUCONI have just graduated a lot of families and so are now in the process of getting to know new families.  This is also the start of a research project into the impact of JUCONI's work so the NT team, who works with individual children and parents in a therapeutic way, are looking for 60 families who need their services: 30 of which will receive the full intervention of individual family visits, a food basket and support with school fees and uniforms; the other 30 of which will only receive check-in phone calls (as I understand it).  This may well be hard for the NT 'orientadores' who are all trained or student psychologists and work on the basis of building strong relationships with the children and parents.  The team also predict that it could cause problems between neighbours who have had initial contact but may be divided in treatment through the anonymous selection process.

Jonny and I also had a chance to chat more about ideas, meet our new JUCONI manager Emilio and also our London-based CMAP manager Olivia… so yes, it's been a really fascinating week!


Thank you for your support / 
Peace: child family dreams heart life, play: 
equal believe invent choice focus, 
Hope: free friends parents education help, 
Laugh: feel, share, transmit, progress, grow

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