Education through arts for under-served youth

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Summary

Provide a photography workshop for 30 young people of a Buenos Aires shantytown which will enable them to acquire the skills to develop self-confidence and improve their job prospects through art progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Currently, ph15 serves 30 underserved young people who live in Villa 15, a shantytown in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Most participants' families came to Buenos Aires from rural areas of Argentina or from Paraguay with the hope of finding work. 30% of participants’ parents are unemployed and 40% receive government assistance. The main goal of the project is to integrate the beneficiaries of the program with the rest of the society through visual arts.

Activities

Each student attends a free 3-year course, divided as follows: Expression through Photography - Expression & Technique - Digital Photography. Plus organizing national and international exhibitions, fieldtrips, receiving visiting artists, etc.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $380
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $24,620
Total Funding Goal: $25,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

All participants will learn to use images to communicate with others; gain skills in photography, editing, design; gain self-esteem, self-efficacy, ability to work in groups; increase their chances of finding a job; achieve higher levels of education

Project Message

Ph15 has helped me meet new people and go forward with my life, teaching me to express myself and to not be trapped by the bad things in the villa, and to think instead about what’s outside.
- Natalia Godoy, 19 years old, Ph15´s 3rd year student

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Moira Rubio,
Director
Darregueyra 2307 1 D
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1425
Argentina
5411 47738126
Email:

Project Sponsor

HelpArgentina

Organization

Fundación ph15 para las artes
Darregueyra 2307 1 D
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1425
Argentina
54 11 47738126
http://www.ph15.org.ar

Learn more about Fundación ph15 para las artes and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Argentina and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Argentina, read the Human Development Report on Argentina or the Wikipedia entry for Argentina.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 07, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 18, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

2008 Main Achievements

By MOira Rubio - Director, November 07, 2008 06:09 PM

Due to year´s coming to an end, we wanted to share our main accomplishments, that were possible to all the donatios received:

1. Hold 10 photography exhibitions throughout Buenos Aires and Argentina, as well as abroad in Las Vegas, Cabo Polonio in Uraguay and San Pablo in Brazil.
2. Open new photography workshops: one more in the “Hidden City” (Ciudad Oculta) and another in Lugano.
3. Visit six photography exhibitions with all the students in Buenos Aires.
4. Carry out three photography fieldtrips for the students within Buenos Aires and the outskirts of the city.
5. Travel with the students of ph15 to the cities of Santa Fe, Tucumán, Jujuy, Bariloche y Córdoba, to teach other underprivilaged children pinhole photography.

Finally, and most importantly, to continue providing classes in artistic expression and photographic technique for more than 50 children between the ages of 10 and 20 in Ciudad Oculta, Boulogne y Lugano. Through these classes we are able to give these children a new way of communicating with the outside world, a world from which they are usually excluded.

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