Organization:

Fundación ICAL

A non-profit organization with 60 years of history working for the inclusion and welfare of people with hearing disabilities in Colombia.

Click here to visit their website

Project Location:

Chía, Colombia

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Objectives:

  • To strengthen the students’ emotional skills, integrating teachers and parents as direct collaborators supporting their inner strategies to face present and future challenges.
  • To strengthen and build, with a participative methodology, the socio-emotional toolkit for teachers to be implemented in the classes with the students.

Beneficiaries:

  • 170 ICAL students: 65% with a disability: deaf and/or mild cognitive. Children and adolescents from 10 different municipalities. 97% belong to low-income families and inhabit high psychosocial risk contexts.
  • 194 Students’ parents (or immediate relatives).
  • 16 Teachers and other professionals who attend to the students.
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Status:

Ongoing

Sector:

Health (Mental health)

Grant:

Under $5,000

Fiscal Sponsor: Caring for Colombia

Dates:

1st Agreement: October 2022 - April 2023

Reports:

Complying with the agreement brokered by Bastion between the donors and ICAL, the organization sends:

  • First Report: January 2023
  • Final Report: April 2023

At the same time, Bastion commissions independent reports as part of the services it provides to its donors.

You can find all the reports here (in Spanish).

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