Asociación Centro de Desarrollo Psicosocial – Taller de Vida
Founded in 1994, Taller de Vida is a women-led organization that works to address the conditions that lead to child, early, and forced marriage among girls impacted by conflict in Colombia, especially from Afro-descendant, Indigenous, and displaced communities.
Our Changemakers grant will support Taller de Vida to expand its Luciérnagas program which helps girls to process trauma, build psychological strength through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and develop tools to advocate for their rights using digital media. The program will also provide Indigenous girls with access to language classes to help them access formal education in Spanish, as well as financial literacy to help them gradually become active participants in the life of their communities.
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FROM TALLER DE VIDA
This partnership with the Girls First Fund enables us to strengthen our Luciernagas Project and respond to the situation faced by many girls and adolescents, especially in the Embera Chami, Embera Katio, and Wayuu indigenous communities where child marriage is recurrent, and practices and beliefs need to be transformed.
The Changemakers grant will support us to address child marriage as a central action of the Luciernagas Project, providing us with the backing and support we need to call for and mobilize social and political action. We will also have the opportunity to learn from the experiences of other organizations that are part of the Changemakers program.
We dream of a reality where our communities – especially girls – have access to education and are financially independent so that they can decide and define their own future. We also want the women, leaders, and midwives in our communities to join the process to accompany and take on the protection of the girls, supporting the transformation of cultural practices and perspectives about gender.