Educating for Inclusion: Transforming Mindsets
Our social education program reaches schools, universities, and businesses to raise awareness about the rights and dignity of people with disabilities.
El Arca Choluteca's Social Education Program is our advocacy platform for transforming mindsets. We visit schools, universities, and businesses to talk about dignified treatment and the rights of people with disabilities.
The most powerful aspect of these talks is that they are not only given by our professionals: our own members with disabilities actively participate, sharing their experiences and showing their abilities.
In every school visit, children are transformed. They go from initial curiosity to understanding, and finally to affection and admiration. Many end up wanting to visit El Arca or become volunteers when they grow up.
We also conduct inclusive entrepreneurship workshops, training single mothers and other vulnerable populations with tools for self-sustainability.
This program demonstrates our philosophy of 'walls outward': El Arca doesn't stay within its walls but goes out to impact the entire Honduran community.