On Friday was a human trafficking workshop, collaborated between several organizations throughout Costa Rica with the help of several students (us), from Miss Amy's advisory. The preparation was the night before, rather brief but pretty straight forward. To be completely honest, I personally was not exactly sure what the outcome was going to be or what exactly I was going to be doing but I trusted everything would work out, which it did.
So, I was assigned arts and crafts with Omar and Sydney, which went really well. I understood the concept of the workshop- there was one serious discussion, a 4 step explanation and a Q&A, which are the two intense, informative stations, run by the psychologists and the people fro the organization. Then the rest of the stations, run by the students, were fun, distractions to make the whole workshop memorable. Therefore we didn't actually experience anything intense, which was actually a bit relieving. At times, the experts say, some kids could be a bit disturbed and this would show up in the art. But for the most part it was just for fun relating to the topic, so we had 5 trusted people.
The lower school workshop flew by. The three of us in crafts were in a motion, just going through groups 15 minutes at a time. Then, we went to the upper campus which was a little different. It was more of a conversation and a little bit more straight to the point; more about human trafficking than "good touch, bad touch". I was found in a group with some 6th-8th graders and it was a little difficult because they didn't understand the concept of human trafficking. I think this is really tough because you don't want to scare the kids, but the reality is scary. They asked me to tell them, so I briefly explained something not too scary and they were shocked but happy to know the truth.
Then there was a discussion with the older students (us) and that went really well. It was very interesting, we talked about all sorts of things- what causes human trafficking, how can it be stopped, etc.
Overall, the day was a success and there were really little to no obstacles. Don't worry, Miss Amy, it was great!
So, I was assigned arts and crafts with Omar and Sydney, which went really well. I understood the concept of the workshop- there was one serious discussion, a 4 step explanation and a Q&A, which are the two intense, informative stations, run by the psychologists and the people fro the organization. Then the rest of the stations, run by the students, were fun, distractions to make the whole workshop memorable. Therefore we didn't actually experience anything intense, which was actually a bit relieving. At times, the experts say, some kids could be a bit disturbed and this would show up in the art. But for the most part it was just for fun relating to the topic, so we had 5 trusted people.
The lower school workshop flew by. The three of us in crafts were in a motion, just going through groups 15 minutes at a time. Then, we went to the upper campus which was a little different. It was more of a conversation and a little bit more straight to the point; more about human trafficking than "good touch, bad touch". I was found in a group with some 6th-8th graders and it was a little difficult because they didn't understand the concept of human trafficking. I think this is really tough because you don't want to scare the kids, but the reality is scary. They asked me to tell them, so I briefly explained something not too scary and they were shocked but happy to know the truth.
Then there was a discussion with the older students (us) and that went really well. It was very interesting, we talked about all sorts of things- what causes human trafficking, how can it be stopped, etc.
Overall, the day was a success and there were really little to no obstacles. Don't worry, Miss Amy, it was great!
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