Quarter Program Report: Scout Experience: Ready for life

The project impacts over 10,000 youth and parents from the Camino Verde, Mariano Matamoros, and Granjas Familiares neighborhoods of Tijuana. It provides dedicated support to adolescents and youth in the areas of character, education, and leadership. Character activities focus on learning to be and learning to live together through the strengthening of various dimensions of the individual. These activities aim to strengthen psychological resilience, provide direct psychosocial support, and promote a specific value system according to the Scout Promise and Scout Law. Character activities are implemented using the Scout Method and the five programming principles of the United Nations as crosscutting practices. Education activities focus on learning to know and learning to do by using a "learning by doing" approach to math, language, and logic. These activities develop skills in the areas of ecology, sports, humanities, communication, security, and technology. Education activities provide dedicated support to adolescents and youth who are currently out-of-school, have low academic performance, have a learning disability, and/or are in transition between primary and secondary or secondary and high school. Leadership activities develop competencies related to social project management and use the learning through service approach to develop social leadership competencies. These activities strengthen the sense of community and promote dialogue and understanding among young people. Leadership activities have a strong voluntary service component in the areas of peace, environment, and development, and engage national and international scouts with local scouts. The project puts special emphasis on developing monitoring and evaluation systems that provide useful information for measuring social impact, strengthening organizational learning, and supporting decision-making processes. The project's impact is scalable and replicable, setting the national standard of the organization for work on character, education, and leadership among at-risk adolescents and youth living in highly vulnerable environments.