Sensitization Manual
"Spreading the Resourceful Child Project in the Community”

In this document its is presented a summary of the "Resourceful Child" Project, which includes basic concepts and the variables of the infantile resourcefulness, so that the field professionals get familiar with these contents and transmit to or share with the members of the community in order to sensitize them about the benefit of implementing the project in favor of children’s development. It is very important that the community realizes the importance that this project has for its population. The transmission is carried out considering the cultural characteristics of the whole population. In order to do it, principles and strategies that must guide the sensitization stage and transmission of the Project’s advantages are presented in the last part of the manual.

First textbook "The Resourceful Child"
Theoretical and conceptual aspects

In this first notebook three documents are presented about theoretical and operative aspects related to the “Resourceful Child" project. In the first document called: "Basic foundations and principles to implement the Resourceful Child project" fundamental concepts, theoretical and operational principles of the project are developed. Also in the second document called: "Theoretical principles of the cross-cultural intervention", the theoretical framework, the principles that fundament this type of intervention, the strategies to select the intervention team and other related topics are developed. In the third document: "Andean Socialization", own aspects of the socialization process, characteristics of the Andean family system in contrast to the western family system, the world of Andean baby and his/her family, as well as the care given by the brothers, infantile work and disciplinary style are presented.

Intervention Manual

The objective of the intervention manual is to offer a referential framework so that field professionals can orient themselves in the implementation of the "Resourceful Child” Project. Nevertheless, it must be only considered as a guide for the preparation of workshops, sessions, resources and materials, considering the participatory principles that fundament them.

Second intervention manual
For children from 1 to 3 years old

This manual is formed by five chapters. In the first chapter called "Theoretical Aspects" themes like capacities of children from 1 to 3 years of old, characteristics of Andean up-bringing, hygiene, the concept of “parentalidad” in the communities among others are presented. In chapter II called “Theoretical fundaments and promotion of the resourcefulness variables", it is explained the theoretical bases of the six variables and how they should be promoted specifying the strategies, activities and games. On the other hand in the chapter III called "The intervention", the methodology to generate the changes in the population is presented. In addition the structure of the workshops with mothers and the program for the sessions with children are described and explained. In chapter IV called "The model session", it is presented a session with songs, activities, materials and a list of games. In chapter V "Model of an intervention workshop", the stages of a workshop and seven models of workshops specifying the theoretical foundations and the activities are presented.

Third intervention manual
For rural Andean children from 3 to 5 years old

This manual is formed by seven chapters in which theoretical aspects about development of competences in children from 3 to 5 years old and the characteristics of the Andean upbringing in these age period are presented.

Health prevention guide
For rural Andean children from 0 to 5 years old

The objective of this guide is to offer the intervention team, community promoters and parents from the intervened communities a basic knowledge of factors that influence children’s health, how the diseases are gotten and what kind of good practices must be applied to prevent them.

"The intervention"
Multimedia product

This product helps to get to know the development spaces of rural Andean children, who participate in the project, the project intervention strategies and methodology to promote the resourcefulness variables. It has been prepared making use of photography and videos of children collected from the communities´ reality, where the project is being implemented.

This is a product prepared to train the intervention team, therefore the theoretical content that accompany photography and videos, have been developed with the purpose of polishing the used intervention methodology. This product includes videos of “rural patios” built in each community by parents and other community members with the support of the project.

"Carlita, Project symbol"
Multimedia product

This product was prepared making use of photography and videos taken and filmed in the intervention field. It shows the evolution process of Carlita, a baby girl, who was born in her mother´s 7 months of pregnancy. She is from Tuco community in Huancavelica. She had a very low weight, when she was born due to fetal undernourishment. When she was 3 months old, she was evaluated and the results said that her level of development was similar to a "not yet born” baby. In that moment she did not even responded like a baby, who was one month old.

Carlita´s mother had a regular participation in the workshops. She was one of the first mothers, who built and implemented the "child’s development space" at home. Through videos we have registered Martina’s performance as mother, in the workshops and in her house. There are also scenes of a visit done to her house and an interview, where she tells the story of her child and her family.

In the last evaluation carried out to Carlita the results show a great progress in her development, her nutrition and health status. In the videos and observations, she is wide-awake, active, clean, content and attentive. Because of her excellent development she has been considered as a child symbol of the “Resourceful Child” project.