ABOUT US

We are a community of people like you who believe that together we can transform violence into peace, intolerance into respect, and hopelessness into resilience.

We’re getting out the message that violence is unacceptable and co-creating an ecosystem of participatory, community-based support that puts the power of everyday change in everyone’s hands and leaves only the most complicated cases to the specialists.

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Cool Timeline

July 13

1 out of 3 women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) or non-partner sexual violence.

July 13

1 in 5 women experiences rape or attempted rape in her lifetime.

July 13

Globally, close to 4 out of 10 murders of women are committed by their intimate partners. In Ecuador, a femicide occurs every 3 days on average.

July 13

Approximately 1 billion children between 2 and 17 years old have endured physical, sexual, or emotional violence or abandonment in the last year.

July 6

Large and medium-sized enterprises lose almost $1.8 billion to Violence Against Women (VaW) every year in Ecuador and 81.3% of these costs are due to normalized violence

July 20

Of the population studied, 72.1% suffered some type of experience of control, 74.1% imposition, 65.9% rejection and 61.4% violence..

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Programs

VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Information, awareness-building campaigns and the transformation of culture through culture.

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COMMUNITY BUILDING

Strong communities provide healthy social environments for individual wellbeing, collective prosperity, and support in times of crisis.

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LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION

The life experience of individuals and their communities can be harnessed to promote resilience, empathy, and positive personal and societal transformation.

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Testimonials

Something magical happened in the circle
It was so amazing that it led us to reflect... and to say thank you.
A thousand times thank you. Because you can’t imagine what we’ve been through and what we achieved thanks to this acceptance, to having listened, and mostly, to having embraced it. The circle accompanies you... sincerely, spontaneously and with human experiences.

Sandra Jacqueline
Participant in the healing dialog circles
The circle of life
That’s the first thing I thought of when they told me about the healing circles. [...] You meet with other people... and you share... and you realize you’re not alone. What the person next to you shares may be what you are living. And if you haven’t lived it, you can still find a way to help that person resolve something.

María José Sáenz, Program Administrator
Nuestros Jóvenes Foundation
From Caterpillar to Butterfly: Awakening to Transformation
I felt really good about this topic: the meaning of respect and how I should value myself as the person I am.

Workshop participant in Quito, Ecuador

Our Most Trusted Supporting partners

Everyone deserves a violence-free life.

A “PEARL OF INSPIRATION” JUST FOR YOU

A pearl of inspiration is a place to start or to continue a healing journey, to learn from each other’s life experiences or to connect with specialists. A place to discover a word, a phrase, a song, a painting that helps us grow as human beings or create a better world