“STRENGHTHENING SELF-ESTEEM”
For girls and adolescents.

This project will benefit a group of 15 girls and adolescents who live under the protection of the state in Santiago. In their short lives their rights have been gravely violated, which has impacted in their growth and in facing the emotional challenges associated with their environment in the shelter and for their future as women.

Fundación Niñas Valientes (Brave Girls) is a nonprofit organization that works towards building gender equity from childhood to adulthood through education and the construction of a violent-free atmosphere where the children play the main role. Their work responds to a researched results from different regions in Chile where women, from a very early age, are raised under gender preconceptions that will, eventually, affect their potential for a better future as grown women.

The adolescents will be led throughout six months by a specialized team who will provide the tools to strengthen their self-esteem and resilience through modules on various topics. They will participate in group and individual, didactic and ludic activities, such as games to identify what is a stereotype, personal value, peer support, self-acceptance and other topics, followed by a period of personal reflection and work.

The Chilean-American Foundation will contribute US$4,000 for this project.