The Fraternity – International Humanitarian Missions (FIHM) carries out training activities on Education in Emergencies and Humanitarian Responses for humanitarian workers.
The Training Plan, done in 13 modules, was developed for enhancing the qualifications of the 30 humanitarian workers who are part of the Sector on Education in Situations of Emergencies and Humanitarian Responses. The tools used were playful and practical, and are part of the Sector program, enhancing the quality and effectiveness of interventions during humanitarian missions.
According to Lucía, who is 63 years old and a volunteer missionary of the Fraternity –Humanitarian Missions (FIHM), the goal of her participation in the training was to “acquire new knowledge to put into practice in humanitarian missions, besides enriching the way of looking at some subjects, which were addressed from new perspectives, such as the modules on environmental and gender issues education,” for example.
Lucía found the lessons transmitted during the training to be relevant, useful for the role she currently fills. She adds: “In the missions, I’m active in the area of art-education, and the music workshops were very important. I was able to perceive that, in a simple way, we can use music even while not being specialists. And I was also able to experience the movement and the joy that the exercises generated in me.” “In the environmental education workshop,” she tells us, “it was proposed that each participant observe what they could change in their habits so as to be in a better relationship with the environment. And to choose an action to put into practice for a week. I chose economizing on water in daily practice, and could observe the effort necessary to carry out such a simple action.”
Asked what touched her most during the training, Lucía pointed out the difficult situations which adolescents and young people of the Eboma Tida Project go through, concerning their hygiene during their menstrual period because of lack of access to simple and adequate materials for this use. “On using contaminated materials, such as newspapers or cardboard, they contract infections and other illnesses.” Besides that, Lucía highlights the suffering adolescents and young people of different cultures go through when they are forced to stay away from socializing because of being in their menstrual period, even stopping going to school.” She ends by emphasizing the importance of a project such as that one, which has practical activities, information and the possibility of these young people talking to each other, sharing their experiences.
According to Anderson, a humanitarian worker of the Fraternity – Humanitarian Missions(FIHM), this was the first training cycle specific to that Sector. Another biannual training cycle will be organized, continuing the studies related to the Program in their scope.
Some productions, done by participants, on the subjects addressed during the Training:
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Silent Spring
Spring is the moment for joy, rebirth, singing
Spring of colors, sounds, sparkles, an unfolding
But… something comes to speak to us
If the Spring becomes silent, what must we think?
Nature becomes quiet
How is such a powerful voice not heard?
The song of birds that cause us to smile
Where did they go?
Let’s go! Let our long-awaited waking up not be too late” Sister Rosa
“Spring The time of the blossoming of flowers When we can have our consciousness blossom In the silence within us Thus contributing to the beauty of our planet” Valter
