Our work

Uprooting violence and building peace by empowering communities to create their own transformation journey toward peaceful and productive lives!

We recognize that children and other individuals in desperate situations must have key needs met before they can be open to peace education and to learn to restrain violence and manage their conflicts in a negotiated manner.

Phebe Children therefore also provides programs for food and shelter, education, and entrepreneurship to help communities become self-sufficient.

We are proud of our work in Colombia and aspire to continue pursuing collaborative partnerships while serving the communities. Also, we aim to start new peace and entrepreneurship and sustainable projects in other areas also troubled by poverty and violence.

Yukpa School

Built a school for the Yukpa Children, financed the construction of the first two classrooms. Still more classrooms are needed for nearly 150 children.

After waiting nearly four years for the government to provide a school for the Yukpa children, we said enough is enough. So, we decided to support the Yukpa with finances so that they could build a school for their children. Every Yukpa, men, women, and children, literally carried sand from the river in little containers as their contribution to building the school. Today the Yukpas have taken ownership of the school building are very proud of it, their dignity was strengthened.Currently there are nearly 170 children and there are only two classrooms, and the children take turns to go to school on different days – more space is needed for allowing them to go to school every day.

Yukpa School

Built a school for the Yukpa Children, financed the construction of the first two classrooms. Still more classrooms are needed for nearly 150 children.

After waiting nearly four years for the government to provide a school for the Yukpa children, we said enough is enough. So, we decided to support the Yukpa with finances so that they could build a school for their children. Every Yukpa, men, women, and children, literally carried sand from the river in little containers as their contribution to building the school. Today the Yukpas have taken ownership of the school building are very proud of it, their dignity was strengthened.Currently there are nearly 170 children and there are only two classrooms, and the children take turns to go to school on different days – more space is needed for allowing them to go to school every day.

Women’s Entrepreneurship Program

Benefited Yukpa families with income from the entrepreneurship workshops, boosted the Yukpa women’s identity and self-steem throught the workshops.

First phase of women’s entrepreneurship program.
Phebe Children organized and sponsored an initial series of nine workshops, designed to provide indigenous women of the Yukpa immigrant community with sustainable business and technical skills enabling them to market and sell their traditional handicrafts. The project was designed and carried out in dialogue with the women of the community as well as the tribe chiefs-leaders and Phebe children.
Obstacles:
In order to address obstacles including childcare and other conflicting household tasks, we also provided resources and dialogue to find creative solutions so that as many women as possible could participate, 40 women attended.
Obligations:
At the same time, the Yukpa women were required to participate in the totality of nine workshops, be on time and do the respective homework expected by the trainer.
Outcome:
The Yukpa women benefited from the full learning process a new experience for them. They went through a self-discovery of their identity and value as women and of their abilities. Their resilience made possible the realization of tangible outcomes, such as creative and beautiful products. They obtained financial income a fair reward for their work. The totality of product was sold successfully! The participating Yukpa women also became an example to the other women. The other women did not participate because they did not believe in themselves, nor in the project and because they wanted income the same day or latest the same week skipping the process of disciplined learning and sustained hard work. A second phase of workshops was achieved after two years waiting influenced by the coronavirus. The idea was to replicate the workshops with a larger number of Yukpa women participating and create a trust in themselves, the process of becoming productive through discipline, hard work and the joy of getting income these results and the women productivity sustainable.

Women’s Entrepreneurship Program

Benefited Yukpa families with income from the entrepreneurship workshops, boosted the Yukpa women’s identity and self-steem throught the workshops.

First phase of women’s entrepreneurship program.
Phebe Children organized and sponsored an initial series of nine workshops, designed to provide indigenous women of the Yukpa immigrant community with sustainable business and technical skills enabling them to market and sell their traditional handicrafts. The project was designed and carried out in dialogue with the women of the community as well as the tribe chiefs-leaders and Phebe children.
Obstacles:
In order to address obstacles including childcare and other conflicting household tasks, we also provided resources and dialogue to find creative solutions so that as many women as possible could participate, 40 women attended.
Obligations:
At the same time, the Yukpa women were required to participate in the totality of nine workshops, be on time and do the respective homework expected by the trainer.
Outcome:
The Yukpa women benefited from the full learning process a new experience for them. They went through a self-discovery of their identity and value as women and of their abilities. Their resilience made possible the realization of tangible outcomes, such as creative and beautiful products. They obtained financial income a fair reward for their work. The totality of product was sold successfully! The participating Yukpa women also became an example to the other women. The other women did not participate because they did not believe in themselves, nor in the project and because they wanted income the same day or latest the same week skipping the process of disciplined learning and sustained hard work. A second phase of workshops was achieved after two years waiting influenced by the coronavirus. The idea was to replicate the workshops with a larger number of Yukpa women participating and create a trust in themselves, the process of becoming productive through discipline, hard work and the joy of getting income these results and the women productivity sustainable.

Yukpa Community

Assisted the Yukpa tribe with humanitarian aid, food, clothes, basic health and hygiene kits, Counselling, and care.

Facing starvation due to the crisis in Venezuela, nearly 500 indigenous Yukpa people belonging to the groups Uchapectatpo and Manuracha, have been displaced from their homes. They and have taken refuge in the border city of Cúcuta, Colombia where they have established a very primitive camp.

The miserable conditions in which these families, including children, live are painfully distressing.

The Phebe Children Foundation is currently supporting these Yukpa groups through a team of local volunteers providing for some of their basic needs.

Yukpa Community

Assisted the Yukpa tribe with humanitarian aid, food, clothes, basic health and hygiene kits, Counselling, and care.

Facing starvation due to the crisis in Venezuela, nearly 500 indigenous Yukpa people belonging to the groups Uchapectatpo and Manuracha, have been displaced from their homes. They and have taken refuge in the border city of Cúcuta, Colombia where they have established a very primitive camp.

The miserable conditions in which these families, including children, live are painfully distressing.

The Phebe Children Foundation is currently supporting these Yukpa groups through a team of local volunteers providing for some of their basic needs.

Filadelfia School

Helped sponsoring impoverished children by paying their school fees, supported outdoor activities for the children, donated 150 large tables for two schools in Bogota, sponsored part of teacher’s salary during the COVID pandemic.

The Colegio Filadelfia is a non-profit institution providing education, values, care and love to children living in impoverished conditions in Bogotá, Colombia. Most of the 200 students come from the hills surrounding the Chapinero neighborhood which are inhabited by very poor families facing crime, domestic violence, a lack of basic needs like clean water and sewage systems, unemployment and food scarcity. For example, one family of 14 members live in the same small room 20×10 m2 with no bathroom, alcoholic father, and drug addict brother. We aim in 2023 start a peace education program training teachers and children in order to reduce violence at school and in the family.

Filadelfia School

Helped sponsoring impoverished children by paying their school fees, supported outdoor activities for the children, donated 150 large tables for two schools in Bogota, sponsored part of teacher’s salary during the COVID pandemic.

The Colegio Filadelfia is a non-profit institution providing education, values, care and love to children living in impoverished conditions in Bogotá, Colombia. Most of the 200 students come from the hills surrounding the Chapinero neighborhood which are inhabited by very poor families facing crime, domestic violence, a lack of basic needs like clean water and sewage systems, unemployment and food scarcity. For example, one family of 14 members live in the same small room 20×10 m2 with no bathroom, alcoholic father, and drug addict brother. We aim in 2023 start a peace education program training teachers and children in order to reduce violence at school and in the family.

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