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6) Cámara de Comercio e Industrias de Tegucigalpa: Close collaboration and a grant
signed.
IND. 6 Number of youth at Risk benefiting from OCs
During this period, discussions were held in April with partners and coordinators to
evaluate the role of the OCs in the communities. It was concluded that the
establishment and development of the OCs positions them as permanent social
structures promoting violence prevention in the communities. The young beneficiaries
attending the OCs become part of them and develop a sense of belonging. As a
result, success in preventing violence is directly related to the participation and
integration of the beneficiaries in OC activities.
Therefore, in order to foster that sense of belonging in the children and young people,
instead of calling them “beneficiaries”, they will now be referred to as OC "members."
This name change does not alter the requirement that members must be between the
ages of 9 and 29 and spend at least 10 hours involved in activities at the OC.
Calling the young people “members” implies that they continue to belong to the OCs,
even if their attendance has the ups and downs of an open model. This can occur
because some young people have already taken advantage of the OC services or
because others are not particularly drawn to the ongoing OC activities. This makes it
imperative for the OCs to frequently streamline their programs to offer a constant
supply of attractive and varied prevention services.
There are also cases where young people have moved away from the community,
they are now beyond 29 years of age. Unfortunately the OCs have not updated their
databases to deal with such cases. An effort will be made in the following periods to
obtain a more accurate database of the actual number of beneficiaries at each OC.
As of June 30, there were 15,620 OC members. Of the total, 6,950 were registered
before 2011, and 8,670 from 2012 onwards. Below, a breakdown of the membership
by city and OC:
OCs Female Male
Total
June 2013
LA CEIBA 620 708 1,318
Armenia Bonito 74 69 143
Búfalo 114 179 293
Primero de Mayo 46 30 76
San José 172 16 88
San Judas 178 46 324
Melgar 31 39 60
Mercedes 5 29 34
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