Asociacion Chaska

Association Chaska “Virgen de Guadalupe” is a non-profit organization that aims to promote global peace and justice through sustainable personal, social and economic development. Each year, we offer our “Community Education Program for Migrant Families (Children, Adolescents, and Mothers)”, which consists of educational workshops for children and parents that focus on various themes, such as nutrition, hygiene, and the environment. This program was born out of the recognition of the need to enhance the personal growth of our local children, adolescents, mothers and families, and designed to help them create individual life plans that are intimately tied to the development of their communities. Through the program, we seek to impart skills and abilities of self-management, while simultaneously maintaining a holistic and transformative approach, for we are motivated by the search for a more just society in which all people can grow and live with dignity.

Chaska’s approach to education is one of integrated training that includes productive, social, and Christian-Humanistic components. The productive component deals with themes that are directly relevant to the economic realities of the families we serve, e.g. the breeding of guinea pigs and the use of irrigation technology, which are also outlined as important sources of development in the strategic plan of Peru’s Ministry of Agriculture. The social component includes academic reinforcement, which consists of the use of verbal and logical reasoning and English language acquisition, as the lens through which the practical skills of the productive component are taught. By combining academic and practical training, we hope to simultaneously confront several problems that the migrant families in our communities face: first, widespread poverty; second, poor academic performance and retention rates in this region’s schools; third, poor self-esteem and lack of confidence among individuals; and fourth, exclusion from our increasingly globalized society, in which English has become a universal language. The social component also includes training in exercising civic duties and making political decisions to develop a social consciousness, which correspond to the strategic plans of our local and regional governments and local civic organizations. This aspect of our work will utilize materials borrowed from the nearby Leadership School of the Bartolomé de las Casas Institute. Finally, the Christian-Humanistic component is based on the practice of values and ethics, which corresponds to the pastoral work plans of the parish churches in nearby Huaura. In this way, we aim to improve the quality of life for the migrant families of Primavera, Túpac Amaru and Otoño, three communities in the province of Huaura and the department of Lima in Peru.

La Asociación CHASKA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE es una entidad sin fines de lucro, creada con ideales cristianos bajo un proyecto de evangelización que busca construir un mundo más justo y solidario mediante el “Programa de Educación Comunitaria para familias migrantes (niños, adolescentes, madres)”. En tiempo de necesidad ecológico para enfrentar los desafíos del Perú de nuestros hijos, como una respuesta ecológica a la crisis mundial. El Programa de Formación nace a partir de la necesidad de contribuir al crecimiento personal de los niños, jóvenes, mujeres y familias, mediante la elaboración de su proyecto de vida y vinculando este al desarrollo de su comunidad. Se busca estimular en ellos capacidades y habilidades de autogestión con una visión integradora y transformadora motivados en la búsqueda de una sociedad más justa donde se pueda vivir y desarrollarse con dignidad.

La capacitación que imparte CHASKA es un sistema de formación integral para las familias, donde los diversos temas que se les pone al alcance son de interés, para ellos, por ser parte de su realidad, como la crianza de cuyes, riego tecnificado que corresponden al componente productivo del proyecto y este a su vez articulado al plan estratégico del Ministerio de Agricultura. El componente social incluye la formación ciudadana en el ejercicio de la toma de decisiones políticas, conciencia social articulado al plan estratégico del Gobierno Local, Regional y las Organizaciones de líderes comunales todo esto acompañado a la Escuela de Líderes del Instituto Bartolomé de las Casas. Y finalmente el componente humano cristiano basado en la práctica de valores con Ética articulado al plan de trabajo pastoral de las parroquias de Huaura.