San Juan

The most representative annual activity that has allowed us to corroborate and strengthen the socio-emotional and behavioural development of children and adolescents has been the camp project. It takes place at the end of the process, in June or July, and is usually an outing to another province of Ecuador, taking advantage of its beautiful and contrasting regions of the coast, mountains or east, for two or three days, without the parents. This activity has been the pretext for the families to put into play the support to their children from their role, starting from the personal to the economic, there have been common activities to obtain the necessary resources to achieve the exits, they have been supported by the professionals of the San Juan and of the other parents to have the confidence of releasing their children in an experience without their company. In the testimonies of those who have already gone through this experience, we can see the value they give to this project, which has allowed them to see the objectives of the activity crystallised in their children. The main objectives have been:

– To acquire autonomy, self-sufficiency and independence. Strength valid for life.

– To test their way of functioning in life in an environment different from the usual one.

– To promote the ability to adapt to new environments.

– To get to know each child or adolescent in depth in order to continue supporting the deficient areas and boosting individual and group potentialities.

– To continue the support to the socio-affective area in the need that each child or adolescent presents.