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Oscar Chicas - Director of Nicaragua, Silvia Novoa - Director of Mexico, Laura del Valle - Director of El Salvador, Jorge Galeano - Director of Honduras

The Subregion goes to Canada

The Subregion goes to Canada As part of the subregional strategy, CAMI, National Directors (ND) from Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Mexico organized a visit to World Vision Canada.

Unfortunately, Peter Gape, National Director of Guatemala, could not attend due to visa problems. The visit took place during the week of May 20 to 24, 2019.

The directors presented a cluster approach to the subregion, as a solid block of national offices with great potential to expand their impact.

During the last two years, national offices have been implementing projects in several countries (mainly NP) and WV Canada has been one of the few offices willing to support programs in urban contexts. There is great potential in the search for financing opportunities given the great alignment of the programmatic priorities between the subregion and the Canadian Cooperation sector.

Thanks World Vision Canada!

Special thanks to JosĂŠ Carballo, Miguel Moreno and Carolina Prado for organizing such a fantastic visit, we hope to see important results for the region.

The objectives of the visit included sharing the challenges faced by vulnerable children in Central America and Mexico and the approaches adopted by the Subregion to address trends in migration, violence prevention, climate change, food insecurity and others.

World Vision Canada organized internal meetings with technical sector teams, as well as officials from Global Affairs Canada, the international cooperation agency of the Government of Canada.

The ND’s also met with Michael Messenger, President of World Vision Canada, who kindly shared an update on the key priorities in the subregion, the strategic approach for the coming years and the need to join efforts to reach the most vulnerable children. Our director, Oscar Chicas, presented a certificate to Michael Messenger in recognition of the important support that World Vision Canada has given to Nicaragua.

WV Canada is the second largest support office with a presence in most of the countries of the subregion.

Michael Messenger, President of World Vision Canada and Oscar Chicas, National Director of World Vision Nicaragua

Protected Children

Conference on sexual abuse causes great interest among students and professionals World Vision Nicaragua in partnership with SOS Children’s Villages Nicaragua showcased in Managua, the conference “Psychobiology of trauma and its sequels in victims and survivors of sexual abuse”. MSc. Sonia Recinos del Cid, a specialist in Gender Violence and Trauma from Guatemala, was in charge of the lecture. The conference, which took place in a downtown hotel in Managua, was attended by more than 400 people, most of them students and professionals from the careers of Psychology, Social Work, Sociology and Anthropology.

“As organizations that work for the rights of boys, girls and adolescents, we have a firm commitment to contribute to the fight against all forms of violence that threaten their rights and their dignity as individuals.

The sexual abuse of children cripples without mercy the appropriate conditions to grow in harmony”, said Benito Rivas, National Director of SOS Children’s Villages Nicaragua

During the conference, the specialist addressed issues related to stress, the amygdala, the cerebral neocortex, the limbic system, the emotional-negative learning process, the types of traumas and their consequences, protective factors against trauma, and reconsolidation and neurobiology of hope.

During the two hours that the conference lasted, the attendees paid full attention to the presenter. Marcela Pasos, Manager of the Technical Protection Program from World Vision Nicaragua, highlighted the interest of the attendees in the subject. “As an organization, we feel challenged on this issue. The great attendance of this event shows that we are interested; both students, professionals and the citizens have an interest and we want to discuss sexual abuse,“ he said.

About the presenter Récinos del Cid is a permanent consultant for the regional program against domestic violence of the Latin American Institute of the United Nations for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), she is also a teacher in the teaching and training program of therapists for the treatment of victims and survivors of sexual abuse in Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Uruguay. The full conference of the specialist can be found on World Vision’s Nicaragua Facebook page and YouTube channel.

At the beginning of the lecture, Msc. Recino del Cid said that her “concern about what happens with girls and boys” began 20 years ago, and that, in particular, in the last six years she has focused on studying “what happens in the brain” of victims and survivors of abuse.

“Unfortunately, every day I have been checking that the repercussions start off earlier and that we can visualize them,” she explained.

MSc. Sonia Recinos del Cid

Directors of the organizations that make up the MMI during the launch of the Soccer and Crisis Guide.

Protected Children

MMI launches digital campaign: Soccer and Crisis Guide The Nicaraguan chapter of the World Movement for Children (MMI) launched the digital campaign: Soccer and Crisis Guide, with the purpose of providing elements to identify risks, protection measures to keep boys, girls, adolescents safe who are at risk. Also, provide strategies and tools to parents to show the risks for their prevention and protection.

Above all, promote the commitment of the population to the rights of children and adolescents.

“Since 2012, 12 organizations including us are in a platform joining work, effort, and experience, putting that common commitment to work for the rights of children and adolescents in our country. This has been a campaign that has raised the voice of children because we have built it with the ideas and opinions of Nicaraguan children,” said Mauricio Castillo, director of the EDUCO organization who is the coordinator of the MMI technical group.

The analogy with Soccer The campaign will use the analogy as a way of transmitting content in a neutral manner due to the polarization of society. Through a popular sport, such as in the case of soccer, tips will be given for positive changes in behavior through messages that are easy to compare and understand.

“These messages that you will see on social networks, we ask you to join us, to hit like, to share because we want these messages to reach more people. The interesting thing is that in this campaign we have made an analogy with a sport that we are passionate about, such as in the case of soccer, so that it becomes a means to reach out with those messages of protection of children and the promotion of positive values for the establishment of a culture of respect and understanding in society, “said Ivan Yerovi, UNICEF representative in the launch of the messages through a Facebook Live.

For his part, Oscar Chicas Oliva, director of World Vision Nicaragua, invited “parents, and caregivers who are concerned about the wellbeing, the protection of children, to join social networks in this initiative because they will be able to find tools that will serve them a lot for peaceful coexistence within the home, for the resolution of conflicts, so that we can return to families, families that protect children; so let’s unite, let’s all join this effort “.

In addition to World Vision Nicaragua, the MMI member organizations participating in this initiative are: SOS Children’s Villages, Educo, Canadian Christian Fund, International Plan, Save the Chidren, Terres des Hommes (Italy), Luis Alfonso Velásquez Flores Children’s Movement and UNICEF.

Education

Certificates given to Youth Ready members Ninety-six adolescents and youths from the Central North Core (NCN), were certified for successfully completing the first module of the Youth Ready component of the Children Educated during and for life program from World Vision Nicaragua.

“The first module of the Youth Ready program addresses the strengthening of four soft skills: emotional skills, strengthening confidence and values, group integration and decision making. In this module they are accompanied by entrepreneurship and employability workshops, so that in module four, they may be able to develop and execute a business plan,” said Sathia Bermúdez, Technical Education Specialist at World Vision Nicaragua.

For the certification, Youth Ready groups from different cities met to share this experience as a homogenous group. This activity also served to thank and say goodbye to the volunteer facilitators who accompanied them in this process.

“Working with children and adolescents has been my greatest pleasure, I feel that through my work and spiritual experience I can help the guys. Youth Ready convinced me that youth are in great need of love, attention and opportunities to develop all their potential and I appreciate the space they gave me to be a bridge with these young people,” said Biafra Palacios, Business Administrator and Youth Ready facilitator.

Youth Ready is a component of the Children Educated during and for life program from World Vision Nicaragua that is implemented directly with adolescents and youths with the objective of strengthening their soft skills, providing them with entrepreneurship tools and accompaniment in the construction of a plan for life.

“It was a very nice experience, we learned about tools to become entrepreneurs, how to make a resume, to look for a job and to take care of our finance once we start to work. Through my participation in Youth Ready, I understood that to face the challenges of life I must learn to recognize who I am, my virtues and my shortcomings and create internal tools that allow me to overcome them,” explained Odebys, 16, Youth Ready participant.

At the country level, there are 600 adolescents and youths who participate in this component through which World Vision Nicaragua seeks to contribute by strengthening technical, vocational and entrepreneurial skills, through pedagogical processes that involve their families and communities.

Education

Polaris Energy S.A. and World Vision deliver tablets to high school students As part of the project “Learning Today, Brightening Tomorrow” that runs Polaris Energy S.A. and World Vision Nicaragua, in the Sara María Parrales Educational Center, in León, 32 tablets were delivered to be used by teachers and students from first to third year of high school.

The tablets contain the books with which students are receiving classes, there are applications to do assignments in English, and they have math games and questions and answers that will stimulate critical analysis; They also have books such as novels, stories and of personal growth. Through these tablets thirdyear students can also apply and receive online classes.

“This delivery of tablets is part of the second stage of the I Want to Learn project. There are 205 students who will use the tablets in different subjects and for this a schedule with the teachers has already been established,“ explained María Andrea Gutiérrez, project manager.

During the act of delivery, Marcela Bascopé, Specialist in Corporate Social Responsibility and Communications of Polaris Energy S.A., invited students to “make the most” out of the tablets. “Not all schools in Nicaragua can have access to equipment like these. Congratulations to the teachers and the students, take care of the tablets.

We want that they can be developed, that they are the best versions of yourselves and that they leave a positive impact in all their communities, “he said.

Polaris Energy S.A. and World Vision Nicaragua work together in the Sara María Parrales Educational Nucleus and its six satellite schools, since 2016. Since that year, girls and boys in primary school have tablets for use in the classes and clubs have been created to promote reading; however, this is the first time that these teams will be used with high school students. “This project of the tablets seems interesting because it helps us to develop reading, writing and our imagination, we can create right there our own stories and drawings. On the other hand, the explanation of the teachers will now be complemented with what we see through the use of technology, “said Genesis, one of the students benefited.

For its part, the director of the educational center Yamila del Carmen Juárez, said that “the dream we had has become reality. Now you (students) can enjoy this technology and be better every day. Let’s take advantage of this alliance, this helping hand that they are giving us. “

Marcela Bascopé, Specialist in Corporate Social Responsibility and Communications of Polaris Energy S.A.

Safe Water

Water committees receive training on maintenance and on operation of water systems World Vision Nicaragua, through its Safe Water program, trained more than 40 Potable Water and Water Sanitation Committees (CAPS) from San Juan de Limay, in Estelí, during the first CAPS municipal congress whose motto was “Let’s take care of our water sources”.

The Safe Water program has within its programming to train water committees with the purpose of reinforcing and expanding the learning process of its members so that they have a greater community impact, stated Marvin Soza who is a Safe Water program technician.

During the congress, the following topics were addressed: Legal framework of the CAPS, Special Law on Drinking Water and Water Sanitation Committees and its Regulation (Law No. 722), tariff calculation, and maintenance and operation of water systems; the latter was taken care of by the specialists from World Vision Nicaragua.

“There are different types of water systems, and in that sense, (the participants) were told what are the components that each must have, and about the appropriate preventive and corrective maintenance.

Likewise, we addressed the issue of water chlorination, essential to have quality water in the family. This is intended to enable CAPS to improve their work and provide a better service to the community, “said Luis Muñoz, Hygiene and Sanitation Technician from World Vision Nicaragua.

The congress was held in conjunction with the Municipality of Limay and the Nicaraguan Institute of Aqueducts and Sewerage (INAA) and the Los Lirios Mining Company also took part.

“The important thing that I saw today is to keep track of the payments in the right manner, because that is one of the biggest weaknesses of the CAPS; awareness should be raised among users in regard to pay their dues, water is life and we must pay to maintain the functioning of the committees,” said Isabel Pérez, Treasurer of Evangelisto Valdivia CAPS.

Safe Water

Make diagnosis of the need for water in YalĂ­ World Vision Nicaragua, through its Safe Water, in joint collaboration with the Water for People and Water for Life organizations, has conducted a diagnostic study on the need for water and sanitation and hygiene in the municipality of San SebastiĂĄn de YalĂ­, in Jinotega , Nicaragua.

To carry out the diagnosis, information was collected at the community, household and public institutions level, in order to have data of the entire sector. Based on the results of the study, the next interventions to be prioritized will be defined.

The diagnostic study was carried out under a Letter of Intent signed by the three institutions at the end of February 2019, which aims to establish a framework of joint collaboration for the development of initiatives that contribute to the well-being of vulnerable populations, in topics related to the management of drinking water, sanitation and hygiene and management of water resources in Nicaragua.

World Vision staff conducting diagnosis from within the communities.

Bismark Lรณpez - Specialist in Programmatic Learning and Quality.

Learning and Programmatic Quality

Innovation in the management of the data of assets and needs of the communities Surely, we keep in our memory the first time we arrived at a community with the agent of change mindset, we observed the road, the village and after greeting the children we tried to identify the adult leadership, the organized groups, we located the school , the churches, the health post, the baseball field, the soccer field, the well, the pond, the grocery, in short, all those references that constitute and give shape to the idea that we have of a community. At the same time, we assess the needs, the resources or assets that the community has, there is also the intangible, the idiosyncrasy of its people, its symbols, its history, the ways of expressing its spirituality and thus we are making an image of the same. We facilitate the construction of the desired community, this image after the interactions with the residents is transformed into a co-construction which is subsequently the subject of decisions in our project management processes.

On our daily work, requests are generated from different areas and territorial scales to define details and make proposals, report or negotiate a process and one of the first questions is, in which communities? And between that, in what? There are often information gaps that make it difficult to make a decision or at least have a clear approximation of the same.

On the other hand, communities are dynamic, year by year their assets and needs vary due to the interventions and context factors; having it systematized becomes a challenge for Managers, Coordinators and Integral Development Facilitators.

World Vision Nicaragua is in 540 communities, updating its information, consolidating it and having a management system has been extremely complex, sometimes duplicating efforts and the information is requested many times. The search for solutions using information and communication technologies has had its virtues but also its challenges.

However, under a structured process, taking the lessons learned from various initiatives is that a system was proposed that brings together the information needs of different areas, for it to be easy to build, it will generate reports in real time and would have clear views for decision makers in different scales. To do this, different modules were combined, ODK app in mobile phones, a data system managed through a platform, trying to securely receive the data in its own server, taking as reference the policies and standards of the organization for the secure management of the data. The view of the highly relevant data, we used Power BI, a business analysis service from Microsoft, where you can display the information by community, municipality, PA, cluster and support office through information boards and charts in a friendly manner.

The solutions that brings this innovation: 1. We avoid duplicating requests for information and the data gathering cycle is annual.

2. Detailed information for planning.

3. Input for the formulation of proposals.

4. Key input for the development of community gift proposals and how to invest 25% of the GN according to the needs of the communities.

5. Additional information for reports and preparation of communication material related to Technical Branding.

6. Not falling into perfectionism, once the form is agreed on with the technical program technicians, any improvement is implemented until the new cycle (1 year) of the collection of data. This prevents the teams from having to go back and collect information and it also reduces the loss of data due to adjustments made to the system.

7. Having a field and a system team supporting the process is essential for it to flow and achieve the goal.

The response cycle is less than 12 hours maximum, avoiding negative perceptions from users.

8. The boards in Power BI are flexible and easy to adjust and provide an attractive, intuitive and practical visual experience to users. • It is good to know that information systems are part of the tools for the decision-making process but there are always more variables to consider for the same. • Systems collaborate in swiftness and effectiveness, but it is also important that they facilitate the work of collaborators and volunteers by focusing on the most strategic and relational processes. • Through these systems you can manage the information on Assets & Needs year after year to have a temporary record of the progress of the communities.

It is why we are pleased to share this process of improvement hoping to make this proposal a positive experience for those who gather the information and for the users of the same.

Learning and Programmatic Quality

Evaluation of advances in ODK in the AP Urban Tipitapa.

(Facilitators and volunteers)

In recognition of having complied with the highest standard: Sponsorship Operation Indicators, SHORTFALL, Content Management System and Registered Children.

AP of the moths of may and june 2019: Quizaltepe Supervisor: Aleck Pérez FDI’s: Teodora Gómez, Geremías Gutiérrez, Daysi Amador, Ericson Bucardo

Our People 21

World Vision celebrates Mothers and Fathers As part of Mother’s Day, May 30 and Father’s Day, June 23, World Vision Nicaragua celebrated the mothers of our organization with an enjoyable lunch. The parents were also honored on June 23.

Congratulations to those loving and responsible parents and mothers.

Donations in kind ensure a more comprehensive intervention in our communities.

In May, the Gift in Kind (GIK) area managed a donation from the Convoy of Hope organization, which consisted of 198 boxes of rice fortified with soy, used to benefit the children of the programs in the department of León.

On the other hand, we visited the churches: Rosa de Sarón, in Limay, and Getsemaní, in San Nicolás, which were benefited with 400 meters of ceramics donated

by World Vision USA. Finally, more than 5,000 pairs of rains boots were donated by World Vision Canada. The boots were distributed in the municipalities of Limay, in Estelí, and Yalí, in Jinotega, which are part of the Centro Norte Nucleus. Other local partners of World Vision Nicaragua delivered part of these boots in communities of Matagalpa.

Be part of this initiative!

Enrique Villegas, Coordinator of GIK and Wilmer Arostegui, Country Director, Convoy of Hope

With the donation of 5,000 boots, children will be able to attend school without fear of wetting their shoes.

The Gift in Kind - GIK

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Thanks to the generous support of our support offices and their sponsors

we managed to support

39,249 450 children in

communities in Nicaragua

Sponsorship

Canadian Project provides chickens to more than 1,000 families Thanks to the project “Bringing a feathery hope to families from Esquipulas, Matagalpa, and San Lorenzo, Boaco”, a total of 1,032 families were provided with chickens, which will serve them both for food and for production of eggs that they can sell or consume.

“The hens were delivered to 34 communities from the municipality of Esquipulas and in 22 communities from the municipality of San Lorenzo. In addition to the hens, families were given a bag of concentrate so that they could feed them, “ stated Carlos Santamaría, Operations Coordinator of the North Central Core from World Vision Nicaragua.

The hens were delivered to the communities where the beneficiaries live. The boys and girls were very happy to receive this feathery gift, and many did not hesitate to take photographs carrying their hens.

This project, which was implemented thanks to the support provided by Canada, seeks to improve the food security of the children, families and communities from Matagalpa and Boaco. In the midst of Nicaragua’s socioeconomic crisis, World Vision aims to provide an adequate source of nutrition and income for the families of children who are part of the program.

“The hens require very little space and allow families with small plots of land to maximize the space they have; chickens also represent a solution to economic difficulties and can provide food, as well as being a reliable source of income, “ said Santamaría.

In the municipality of Esquipulas, 680 families were benefited, including 694 boys and girls. While in the municipality of San Lorenzo 352 families were attended where there are 352 boys and girls. Out of the total number of children benefited, 59 have some type of disability.

Kebyn Gonzalez, Operations Coordinator, Clinton Joseph: USDA, Mamie Clarke: USDA, Vittoria PeĂąalba: Director of Sustainability World Vision, Julie Morin: USDA, Kimberly Danke: Sister Sky (Writer), Eduardo Morales, Chief of Party CREAN, Alex Flett: Sister Sky (Photographer).

Representatives of USDA and Sister Sky visited our educational project CREAN, Children Reading and Nourished. During the visit they had the opportunity to meet with the project staff and National Office staff. They also visited some of the schools benefited by the project, where they were able to participate in the processes of providing food and washing hands of boys and girls. In the same way they had the opportunity to interview with the authorities of the schools, parents and institutional representatives. Thanks for your important visit!

USDA Visit

Visit of World Vision U.S in support of transition of The Global fund.

Two months ago, World Vision Nicaragua was chosen as the main recipient to manage the funds of The Global Fund to fight HIV and tuberculosis in Nicaragua. In order to officially start as a Recipient, our organization had to undergo an intensive process of transition. The project will formally begin in the month of July.

We greatly appreciate the support of Melanie Lรณpez, Gagik Karapet and Sara Scavanati of World Vision US, for their unconditional support during one of the most important phases of the transition.

World Vision U.S Visit

Gender

World Vision Nicaragua contributes to the deconstruction of gender violence World Vision Nicaragua in pursuit of the well-being of vulnerable children conducts in partnership with the “Nidia White” Women’s Movement, a project that contributes to the prevention of domestic violence, the promotion of gender equality and the transformation of communities in the North Caribbean coast of the country.

The project, which is being executed since 2017, is in the last months of implementation and with the objective of knowing the impact of it, Oscar Chicas Oliva, director of World Vision Nicaragua, traveled to the Caribbean Coast to participate in the evaluation process that was guided by community leaders.

“We have to put the issue of violence on the table and contribute to the deconstruction of it, work on the construction of new masculinities from the cultural, family and spiritual aspects,” said Chicas during the event.

Thanks to the joint work with “Nidia White”, it has been possible to train community leaders on issues related to violence prevention, gender equity, child protection; directly, World Vision Nicaragua has coordinated relations with the churches in the area so that faith leaders can address from the pulpits the deconstruction of gender violence, for which they are trained in the Channel of Hope methodology.

“The beneficiaries expressed how the accompaniment given by the project allowed them to have a clearer vision of the settings of violence, the changes they reached at the personal level and the accompaniment they can give to the victims, in order to refer them to the community care and legal models” said Patricia Independencia Obregon, director of the Gender Project on the Caribbean Coast.

With the implementation of the project it has been possible to accompany children and adolescents who are victims of violence and we have worked directly with the communities to recognize the issue of gender violence and

the need for transformation so that every boy, girl, and woman is able to grow in a safe context.

“One man said that he physically abused his wife and children, but after the workshops on new masculinities he realized that he needed to change and now dedicates his time to identify in the community men who are violent and he trains them on the topic of new masculinities,” said Chicas.

The director of World Vision Nicaragua says that the organization will make every effort to support the implementation of new projects in partnership with “Nidia White” to achieve greater human transformation in aspects related to eliminating gender-based violence in this area of the country.

“Nidia White” is the only women’s association that watches over and ensures attention to the victims of intrafamily and sexual violence in the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua.

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Oscar Chicas al Director of World sion Nicaragua

Sustainability team - World Vision Nicaragua

Igdadina Lรณpez Radwel, Survivor of femicide

Testimony

I survived an attempt of femicide I am Igdadina López Radwel, a 42-year-old Miskito woman and mother of six children. I survived an attempt of femicide.

My husband, the man with whom I lived for more than fifteen years, the father of my children and who said he loved me, used to verbally abuse me. He humiliated and insulted me. His abuse was more intense when he was drunk He was a bricklayer and had no fixed income, he worked when he had a “chamba or rumbito” (small and temporary work) and preferred to spend most of that money drinking liquor instead of contributing to the expenses of our family.

I used to work as a “domestic” at a house in Puerto Cabezas, earning C$ 1,250.00 córdobas per month equivalent to $ 37.5 - and with the little that my husband contributed, the eight members of my family managed to survive the month.

I felt tired and very overwhelmed, the money was not enough, the violence from my partner increased more and more and I felt that I could not leave it because, although his contribution was not enough for the house, I needed it to pay for the expenses.

I thought I could learn to live with all that pressure and that maybe he would change with time, but, I was wrong.

On the night of Friday, November 25, 2016 - when, paradoxically, the international day of nonviolence against women is celebrated - I remember hearing his screams coming from the street, he was very drunk and in his hand he brought a machete.

He entered the house with levels of violence that I had never seen before. After many years of verbal and psychological violence, that day, it was the first time that he hit me and his goal was to kill me.

He kicked me and beat until he was satisfied, to weaken me and then he hit me with the machete. My screams of terror alarmed my family and neighbors. One of my sons, then 16, and my brother, managed to stop him before he reached his goal.

I ran for help, I was bleeding and I felt that at any moment he was going to reach and kill me. I was weak, but with the help of my family and neighbors I was able to get to the hospital.

Testimony

I entered emergency due to the blows and the two machete cuts caused by my husband. In the hospital they sedated me to treat the wounds. When I woke up the doctors told me that my left wrist had to be amputated because of the severity of the wound. With the first hit, I put my arms to keep him from hurting my head, that’s where he practically dismembered me.

The sadness invaded my whole soul and yet I was grateful that I had survived the attack. That same night, a few hours after leaving the surgery, Nidia White workers arrived at my hospital bed to give me psychological, legal and judicial assistance.

They made me feel protected, accompanied and important. They explained and guided me in the process to file the complaint, the trial and sentence of my attacker, was only six years in prison, for trying to kill me.

Since that November 25, 2016 I am a survivor of attempted femicide and Nidia White has been a light to resume my life. It has been three years of psychological accompaniment to cope with the trauma of violence for many years and they have given me faithful accompaniment for my social reintegration. They taught me that I have rights, duties and that no one can interfere with them.

To continue working as domestic worker was impossible, because the consequences of my attack made me incapable of taking on all the chores of a house.

However, with the Pana a Pana loan, which Nidia White facilitates to women victims of violence, I started a small vegetable stand in the small market of Puerto Cabezas.

With the loan, I received entrepreneurship workshops to start, manage and grow my business. My position in the market started by selling bananas, I have invested the profits and now I also sell fish.

I dream of having a stand stocked with more things and offering vegetables. Thanks to the loan and accompaniment of Nidia White, I have a new life expectancy and I have learned that I can support my family alone.

I say to all women, do not stay silent! Report since the first abuse. And I ask the organizations that support, to have more workshops where they teach us our rights, learn to undertake and prevent violence.

The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua is the area with the highest number of serious injuries and femicides in the country, according to the charts from the Map of Violence of the National Police. Ethnic diversity in this territory perpetuates intrafamily, sexual and gender violence from its diverse cultures and beliefs.

Igdalina is one of the hundreds of victims and few survivors of intrafamily violence on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, despite its shortcomings and its physical limitations, she has faced its reality with courage.

Her courage and determination are revealed in her eyes.

She is an exemplary woman who, starting at 5:00 a.m., is opening her market stall to start the day sales with which she will satisfy the needs of her family.

Sociocultural representations of gender-based violence expressed in the knowledge, attitudes and practices of women and men in Bilwi.

Problem statement: Bilwi is a municipality located in the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. It is characterized by having the highest prevalence of physical violence in the country (31.6%) and the higher number of vulnerability conditions.

Resumen del proyecto: The innovative topic is that research will confront each participant as a fundamental actor to contribute, from their roles and functions, to overcome the forms of violence. It is, therefore, not only to investigate reality, but to promote commitment to its transformation.

Project goal: Promote an integral and comprehensive understanding of gender based violence in multi ethnic contexts.

Objetivos especĂ­ficos de investigaciĂłn: 1. To identify sociodemographic, economic and intercultural characteristics.

2. To assess relationship dynamics.

Among ethnic groups in Bilwi, gender-based violence is assumed to be a private matter. Among young people, dating and courtship are key milestones where machismo is practiced. During this period, control over girls is affirmed by male adolescents, for example, through forced or unprotected sex; making this period a critical moment that defines the nature of the future man-woman dynamic.

Rationale for action The cultural diversity of the region means that, often, violence takes more serious forms in this area, reflecting the need for specific actions and an integral understanding of possible approaches.

3. To analyze how intercultural, economic and social conditions reproduce and reinforce knowledge toward GBV attitudes and practices.

4. To assess how the formal system (State institutions) addresses gender-based violence in the municipality of Bilwi.

5. To identify alternative strategies for GBV prevention, based on a participatory process involving young women, men and adults from the selected neighborhoods.

Project information Location: Bilwi.

Duration of the project: 12 months.

Local partners: The research will be carried out in partnership with a research center of the Central American University.

Considerations: This proposal for a research project was built in conjunction with the Research Center of the Central American University, which has a high track record in the subject and was consulted in a participatory manner with key members of the Project co-executed by World Vision on the Caribbean Coast. “Prevent domestic violence, promote gender equality and transform communities on the Caribbean Coast� which is in its implementation stage.

If you are interested in financing this project, please contact: Yoselin Alvarez | Grants Coordinator Yoselin_Alvarez@wvi.org

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