Building Bridges of Peace

Project Objective:

Integrated intervention that transforms schoolyards into safe community spaces while building a culture of peace through education and daily practice.
Improve school infrastructure to create dignified, safe, and inclusive spaces for play, interaction, and community use.
Provide peacebuilding and coexistence training to teachers, students, and families, integrating these practices into school life.
Strengthen schools as community hubs that promote safety, peaceful coexistence, and child protection.

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Community Assessment:

As part of our initiative, we are collaborating closely with Mexicanos Primero, an organization dedicated to improving education in vulnerable communities. Their expertise and long-standing presence in these areas have been essential to ensuring a responsible and well-structured assessment process.

Mexicanos Primero has supported us in conducting thorough community assessments by organizing interviews, facilitating dialogue sessions, and engaging directly with families and local leaders. Through these conversations, we have been able to better understand the community’s most pressing needs and translate them into realistic opportunities and actionable projects.

Twice a month, their team visits the community to hold in-person meetings. During these sessions, they actively listen to community members, foster open dialogue, and work collaboratively to identify priorities and potential solutions. This ongoing engagement ensures that initiatives are aligned with the community’s voice and are designed to create sustainable, meaningful impact.

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Project Design:

Comprehensive program aimed at promoting peace and positive coexistence in schools located in vulnerable areas.

Through two main actions:
Training programs given to all school community to foster a culture of peace — focusing on coexistence, assertive communication, and conflict resolution.
Infrastructure and furniture improvements in schoolyards, transforming them into learning spaces for peace and community building. Sunscreen and infrastructure for this one to provide a safe space to share and coexist

Expected outcomes include improved perception of safety, reduced conflict incidents, and increased use of schoolyards as safe spaces.

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Direct Beneficiaries:

Direct impact includes 485 students and 14 teachers educated in peace coexistence
Indirect impact includes teachers, families, and community members, benefiting over: 1,600 people annually for training; 3300 for shade structure.
Renewed schoolyards to be used for peace bulding training and meeting points.

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Sustainability:

Long term relationship with schools
Multi-year school project plan
Monthly school follow-ups
Teacher capacity installed
School coexistence committee strengthened
School assumes maintenance and use of the space
Reduction of violent conflicts; conflict prevention skills
Evaluation Strategies
-Surveys per workshop
-Semestral reports
-Monthly school Project follow-ups

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Collaborators:

Mexicanos Primero, Rotary, voluntiers

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Evaluation and Monitoring:

Evaluation Strategies
-Surveys per workshop
-Semestral reports
-Monthly school Project follow-ups
-Number of teachers and persons trained
-Number of children trained

Host Partner

International Partner (Optional)

Project Status