The programme is developed in the city of Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia, with young people and children from different educational institutions located in the most vulnerable areas of the city. Among the beneficiaries of the programme are children and young people who have been part of different armed groups, victims of the conflict or victims of domestic violence.
The objective is to empower young people and children from educational institutions to become protagonists in peace building and the integral development of their communities of origin. The specific objective is to implement a training programme for three schools in Pereira, in the most vulnerable areas of the city.
The Iwoka programme seeks to create peaceful environments through the comprehensive training (human and cognitive) of young people in their final years of high school, so that they can become transformers of their environment, impacting the children in their own school. With the implementation of the programme, the cultural environment of the schools and the family environment of the participants is changed.
The direct beneficiaries will be at least 200 students from 3 schools; 45 teachers; as it is a training of trainers programme, the community in general will benefit indirectly from the implemented programme.