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:

Completed

Sector:

Health (Mental health)

Grant:

Under $5,000

Fiscal Sponsor: Caring for Colombia

Dates:

1st Agreement: Phase 1 October 2022 - April 2023

2nd Agrement: Phase 2 May - November 2023

Reports:

Complying with the agreement brokered by Bastion between the donors and ICAL, the organization sends periodic reports.

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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