Education through arts for under-served youth

Support youth education in Argentina

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: $957
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $24,042
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

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in ArgentinaArgentina and can also be found under EducationEducation.

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 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

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

Latest Update from the Field

2009 News

By Moira Rubio - Executive Director, October 05, 2009 12:38 PM

In 2009 ph15 workshops teachers are all graduated from the 3 year programme. We organized 7 exhibitions (4 in Argentina and 3 abroad). Students and teachers traveled to different provinces and communities in Argentina to give photo workshops. 3 of them did the same in Germany and UK. Most of the graduated students started working as professional photographers or teachers in other workshops.

We made alliances with different NGOs to develop activities such as: radio, theatre, debated in subjects such as civil rights, nutrition, violence, health and ecology.
The students visited 5 different art exhibitions in Buenos Aires.

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