Fundación por el Desarrollo Comunitario San Andrés
We develop community in vulnerable populations, focusing our actions in early childhood and articulating with public and private organizations.
MISSION:
-Provide comprehensive social assistance to children, adolescents and young adults, including their families. Seek to improve their health, education, environment, culture, spirituality and social endeavors, as well as to support other initiatives that serve the same purpose.
-Establish, promote and strengthen collaboration between different social actors to form action and management networks with the aim of transforming communities through solidarity actions and sustainable public policies.
-Collaborate with the community helping them in the search for their balance, reconciliation, pacification and cohesion in the social and spiritual dimensions based on a Christian worldview of life.
PROGRAMS:
*Accompaniment Program for Pregnancy and Early Childhood
-Objective: Contribute to the comprehensive development of the child from pregnancy to insertion in primary school, to strengthen the community that supports it and fosters a favorable environment where this is possible.
-Description: We work to strengthen and train the people and institutions where these children live and go through their first years, generating networks of support and collaborative work.
-Target population: Childhood, Adolescence and family.
-Where takes place: San Fernando County, Province of Buenos Aires, limit that is not strictly county based but community based.
*Emotional Education Program
-Objective: Incorporate and / or strengthen socio-emotional education in all spheres of kindergartens, elementary schools and community centers that work with these age group children.
-Description: Scholarships and Training for managers, guidance teams and teachers of Initial Level Schools and Strengthening and accompaniment of NGO teams that work with maternity and childhood.
-Target population: Directors, teachers, guidance teams and children.
-Where takes place: San Fernando County, Province of Buenos Aires, limit that may be extended.
*San Fernando Hospital Program
-Objective: Strengthening of the Maternity Service and the Social Service of the health entities.
-Description: Participation in pre-delivery workshops, weekly visits to maternity area, Networking with the Social Service and training workshops (nutrition, lactation, Emotional Education) for nursing, Social Service and health personnel.
-Target population: Maternity and Social Service staff, volunteers, pregnant women, and children.
-Where takes place: San Fernando county, Province of Buenos Aires, limit that may be extended.
*Articulation Program
-Objective: Strengthening organizations that work with the mother-child population.
-Description: We develop our Programs with other NGOs, we participate in the San Fernando Children's Board and in neighborhood networks, we connect needs and resources.
-Target population: NGO Staff.
-Where takes place: San Fernando county, Province of Buenos Aires, limit that may be extended.
*ECSA - San Andres Cultural Space
-Objective: Contribute to generating a place for teaching and practice and exposition of diverse cultural expressions within a spiritual environment.
-Description: Courses, expositions of artistic installments in all the visual, theatrical and arts.
-Target population: General public.
-Where takes place: City of Buenos Aires.
Address: Perú 352 - Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires.
Phone: 4790-0974.
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Solidarity Campaign
Techno-pedagogical transformation project "School context: The schools in which the program will be implemented are located in the municipality of San Fernando, province of Buenos Aires, in a vulnerable social context.. Led by the Foundation for Community Development and Red San Andrés Social Initiatives. In collaboration with the benefited schools and with the technical support of the University of San Andrés. A process that lasts 5 years in each school and has an impact on students, teachers of all levels and the educational community. Its general objectives are: to promote positive educational equality in the face of technological change, develop teaching skills in flipped classrooms, incorporate computational thinking into the curriculum in a transversal way and create techno-pedagogical leadership skills in management teams, teachers and students that promote processes of sustainable institutional change.