Susila Dharma International Association
2009 Associate Member Annual Report
2009 Associate Member Annual Report
NAME OF PROJECT: TIERRAVIVA
PROJECT LEADER CONTACT INFORMATION
Name: Rasjid CESAR
Mailing address: Hernandarias 1418, (1164) La Boca, Ciudad Autónoma de Bs.As.
Project address: Hernandarias 1418, (1164) La Boca, Ciudad Autónoma de Bs.As.
Telephone: (5411) 35341440; mobile (5411) 1530701014
Email: tierraviva.ong@argentina.com, icdpnorte@hotmail.com, tierraviva@arteamundo.com
Other key members of the team: Gabriela Luján, Alano Numeroski, Margarita Fernández.
PROJECT SUMMARY
The problem/situation that your project is trying to address:
For the last five years, Tierraviva has focused it work on the children who live with their mothers in penitentiary institutions (jails).
The Mission or Purpose:
Tierraviva uses artistic and creative methods to facilitate human development and to empower the human and social capital in vulnerable populations such as people with special needs and women in prison with their children. We work to promote positive practices for building notions of subjectivity based on social integration and a respect for differences.
The number and types of beneficiaries of your project, and how they participate in the project (please give specifics in terms of age, gender, background, number of participants from different groups):
At the moment, our focus is on the situation of mothers living in jail with small children. From the beginning of 2005 until the end of 2008, the project worked with more than 100 women who lived in Unit 31 of Ezeiza prison, giving them "Art and Awareness" workshops in which their children also participated (100 mothers and 100 children).
From 2008 to 2009 the replication of the workshop began in Unit 22 of Jujuy prison, through a local team of facilitators. They have been able to work with 20 mothers with their children (20 mothers and 20 children).
During 2009, a team of local facilitators gave workshops with mothers of the Foundation DarLoCab of Jujuy and they worked for four months with15 mothers and 15 children. Also included in the five workshops during 2009 were 9 female personnel of the Unit 22 penitentiary (8 guards and an internal security supervisor).
The project carried out education through play workshops for 25 people including NGO workers, art teachers, etc. in the county of Jujuy, coordinated by Gabriela Luján.
In the second quarter of the 2009, training was given to 35 students studying “Psychopedagogy” at the National University of San Martin. At the moment, a small group is designing a volunteer project to implement in the community. This training session will be offered annually.
The number and types of beneficiaries of your project, and how they participate in the project (please give specifics in terms of age, gender, background, number of participants from different groups):
At the moment, our focus is on the situation of mothers living in jail with small children. From the beginning of 2005 until the end of 2008, the project worked with more than 100 women who lived in Unit 31 of Ezeiza prison, giving them "Art and Awareness" workshops in which their children also participated (100 mothers and 100 children).
From 2008 to 2009 the replication of the workshop began in Unit 22 of Jujuy prison, through a local team of facilitators. They have been able to work with 20 mothers with their children (20 mothers and 20 children).
During 2009, a team of local facilitators gave workshops with mothers of the Foundation DarLoCab of Jujuy and they worked for four months with15 mothers and 15 children. Also included in the five workshops during 2009 were 9 female personnel of the Unit 22 penitentiary (8 guards and an internal security supervisor).
The project carried out education through play workshops for 25 people including NGO workers, art teachers, etc. in the county of Jujuy, coordinated by Gabriela Luján.
In the second quarter of the 2009, training was given to 35 students studying “Psychopedagogy” at the National University of San Martin. At the moment, a small group is designing a volunteer project to implement in the community. This training session will be offered annually.
Main activities of your project in this reporting year:
In 2009 the activities were directed at creating medium term strategies to replicate these activities in other environments and to establish continuity for the work. In the cooperation agreement with the National Attorney General’s Office and the National Civil Servant’s Union (U.P.C.N.), Jujuy, they carried out:
- "Art and Awareness" workshops in Unit 22 of the Jujuy Federal jail for 20 mothers with their children. (2009-2010)
- Creation of puppets in this unit
- Workshops for penitentiary personnel of the Jujuy Unit 22.
- Workshops for mothers and children at the Foundation DarLoCab of Jujuy
- UNSAM's Students trained for volunteer projects (2009-2010).
If and how your project addresses one or more of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs - http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/bkgd.shtml )
Links/partnerships your project has with other organizations, NGOs, United Nations, government agencies, etc.:
- National University of San Martin (UNSAM), “Psychopedagogy” degree course. Training of students to develop volunteer projects.
- National Civil Servant’s Union (U.P.C.N.), Jujuy section. To replicate the "Art and Awareness for mothers and children in prison" in Unit 22 of Jujuy.
- National Attorney General’s Office (AGO). Agreement to replicate the workshops in Jujuy’s Unit 22. This agreement finished at the end of the 2009. At the moment the AGO is planning to publish the methodology of the work with mothers in jails in book form (to be published in September 2010).
- Uruguayan Ministry of the Interior. Conversations to implement "Art and Awareness" in the new jail model for women / mothers with children, in Paso Molino, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- Collaboration with "El Abrojo" (NGO), to apply for a grant from the European Community, for expansion in four Uruguayan jails (July 2010)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS
Please describe the results the project has achieved and highlights during the past year: (notable developments, special achievements and activities, acknowledgements etc.)
- To have qualified Gabriela Luján and Rasjid Cesar in how to record the methodology of projects through attending a course from March to September. The upcoming production of a document about the experience in Unit 31 with mothers and children, recording the whole experience, the mothers' testimonies, the monitoring process and recommendations to the state for strategies related to this problem. The document also analyzes normative international standards and scientific studies in this respect.
- The offer to publish a book on the above mentioned document by the National Attorney General’s Office.
- The graduation of the 35 students we are training at the National University of San Martin.
PROJECT GOALS 2010
- To reach such a level of project implementation that it becomes a preventive program in Argentina, with the support of some public resources.
- To begin volunteer projects with the students of the National University of San Martin.
- To pilot the "Art and Awareness" workshop in the new model jail for 23 mothers and their children in Uruguay.
- To establish a relationship of formal cooperation with the Uruguayan government to implement the program in Uruguayan jails.
- To present the book about the project experience, give talks in the Region in order to raise awareness about this problem to help replicate the program in other Argentinean cities or other countries (Jujuy, Córdoba, Tucumán, Montevideo, etc.)
NETWORK ASSISTANCE
1. Describe how other members of the Susila Dharma Network might assist your project to reach these goals:
Organizing talks about the project, or to present the book, in order to get much-needed support. Fundraising or negotiating cooperation in support of the project, etc.
2. Describe any assistance or support you expect to receive from your Susila Dharma national organization:
Subud Argentina is not active in Susila Dharma and gave up its status of voting member in the SDIA network.
3. Describe how the Susila Dharma International Office can assist you in reaching your goals:
Remaining very active in facilitating the relationship between the project and its partners, as you have until now.
4. Describe how you can assist other members of the SDIA Network:
Sharing my field experience and my practice knowledge. It would be excellent to find the way to achieve concrete exchanges between the different members of the network and the projects so that our network become active and produce our own "international cooperation" projects with members of different countries and different projects with similar objectives. They would be interested I think in learning about examples of cooperation between different countries and cultures that work in complete harmony.
FINANCIAL REPORT
Please attach your financial report for this reporting year (in $US)
A. Revenue
Total income from different sources: $61,654 (U$16,224)
| Revenue from Subud sources (list): $31,477.38 (U$8,283) | |
| $ 5,257 | SD Canadá (mayo 2009) (U$1,383) |
| $ 7,620 | SD USA (Julio 2009) (U$2000) |
| $ 5,700 | SD USA (febrero 2009) (U$1500) |
| $ 5,700 | SD USA (mayo 09) (U$1500) |
| $ 7,200 | SD France (1500 euros) |
| Revenue from other sources (list): $30.177 (U$ 7.941) | |
| $ 15,000 | Attorney General’s Office (Rasjid´s contract) |
| $ 5,000 | AGO (5 flights to Jujuy) |
| $ 900 | UPCN Jujuy (Gabriela Luján’s honoraries) |
| $ 900 | UPCN Jujuy (1 flight to Jujuy for G. Luján) |
| $ 7,500 | UPCN Jujuy (5 visits to Jujuy, hotel and food) |
| $ 877 | UNSAM (Rasjid’s contract) |
B. Expenditures
Total expenditures: $61,654 (U$16,224)
Amount spent on delivering services or activities of the project (provide details): 49%
Amount spent on operations and administration (provide details): 51%
Amount spent on delivering services or activities of the project (provide details): 49%
Amount spent on operations and administration (provide details): 51%