El Espectador Newspaper and Plan

In Colombia, 52 percent of the boys and girls are victims of physical punishment. To prevent it, near one hundred youths in Cartagena promote among their parents and brothers standards about the education without violence and the consequences of the physical punishment. 
 
When Martha is back at home, after school hours, she leaves aside the uniform to become one of the promoters that share with many parents strategies to eradicate the physical punishment and to educate without violence their children.  
 
With Martha, more than one hundred youths of other communities in Cartagena have been formed as family guides and promoters of rules of formation.   
 

Courtesy by Plan Programa Colombia

"At first, the parents looked at us in a strange way, but as time passed they understood us and now they willingly attend the workshops and the activities we organize", Martha comments. 
 
This is one of the initiatives that lead Plan in Colombia, with El Espectador support. El Espectador is one of the most important newspapers in Colombia.

“Our concern is the family system. We believe that offering tools to parents and mothers for the education without violence can decrease the problem revealed in the investigation”, explains Lyda Guarín adviser of Plan.  
 
For this reason, Plan generates a formative process in vulnerable communities of Cartagena, as a program pilot that seeks to extend to other regions of Colombia that suffer in more proportion this issue.  
 
At least five hundred families have been sensitized on the consequences of the corporal and emotional punishments toward their children.  
 
See more: http://www.plan.org.co/rediseno/default.asp?link=campanas

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