The Ministry of Social Development and Fundación Capital launched the didactic materials that are intended to be developed in training workshops for beneficiaries of the Tekoporã Program.
These are six new manuals, the result of the work carried out by both institutions during the 2020-2021 period. Each manual has eight training workshops that will be carried out by the Family Guides, officials and state officials.
The launch was held on Wednesday, September 14 at the “Augusto Roa Bastos” Municipal Library in Manzana de la Rivera, and was attended by the Vice Minister of Social and Economic Protection and Promotion of the Ministry of Social Development, César Guerrero, the Vice Minister of Social Policies of the Ministry of Social Development, Cayo Cáceres and the Resident Representative of the Southern Cone and Executive Director of Fundación Capital, Adriana Insaurralde, in addition to other public officials, members of civil society and authorities of international organizations.
Fundación Capital will deliver 3,200 printed manuals that will be used in the workshops to be held throughout the country. The first training was also given to the Family Guides, who will be in charge of implementing and training Tekoporã participants on the new tools.
“The manuals aim to strengthen skills in financial education, health care, the environment and housing, as well as key information to improve food and nutrition, the education and learning process; and also, the generation of community participation processes”, explained Adriana Insaurralde.
For the preparation of teaching materials, a multidisciplinary team of more than 20 professionals identified the main needs of families and developed practical content, with a precise and simple methodology, easy to apply in various contexts. It is hoped that the implementation of the manuals reaches the participants of the Tekoporã Program, through approximately 500 Family Guides in all the departments of the country.
“After this launch, a training process will begin for the trainers, whose main objective is to be able to install the learning, methodology and training content in the Ministry by Fundación Capital for its subsequent execution in the workshops,” explained the Director Executive of the organization.
In his turn, the Vice Minister of Social Policies of the Ministry of Social Development, Cayo Cáceres, maintained that these manuals are the result of work done in our country. “The manuals are based on the needs of Paraguay and may be adapted to the social realities that appear in the future,” he reported.
The Tekoporã Program reaches approximately 165 thousand families throughout the country. It is made up of two components: on the one hand, family and socio-community support, which focuses, among other things, on the development of skills through education and learning; and on the other hand, monetary transfers, whose function is to cover the basic needs of life.
The people who are part of the program are boys and girls from 0 to 14 years old, adolescents from 15 to 18 years old, pregnant women, people with disabilities, members of indigenous communities and older adults.
