Arte Pro, a necessary initiative
Arte Pro is a non-profit organization that, through the relationship between art, science, and social psychology, has created the opportunity to positively impact the lives of children. Some time ago, we crossed paths with the founder, Luz, and decided to join a project we believe in and where we know there is something very valuable we want to share with our community.
What is Arte Pro?
Arte Pro came from a force to heal something on a collective and personal level.
Arte Pro, currently celebrating its tenth anniversary, has designed and implemented programs capable of truly generating an impact, far beyond their difficulties and challenges. Through workshops ranging from agroecology, dance, and cinema, to mindfulness and yoga, and accompanied by psychological and neurological processes, children discover, learn, and experience other ways of dreaming and creating.
Arte Pro primarily works with children between 5 and 12 years old who are in situations of vulnerability, risk, abuse, extreme poverty, abandonment, violence, or born in prison. One of its most important populations is girls and young women who are victims of abuse, prostitution, human trafficking, and adolescent pregnancy. Additionally, its programs have been implemented in orphanages, shelters, and foster homes in Mexico City, as well as in prisons and juvenile detention centers, in marginalized towns and neighborhoods with high rates of violence. They have worked in indigenous communities, as was the case with the community school they established in San Pedro Mixtepec, Oaxaca, where the accumulation of all the methodology they have been building for years allowed them to approach a new community, get to know them, learn from them, and collaborate to design a program that adapted to their needs and tastes.
This creative and conscious approach provides tools for self-reflection and introspection, creating a space for personal dialogue and awareness that promotes self-sufficiency, self-respect, respect for the opinions of others, and a critical and practical mindset.
How can I get involved with Arte Pro?
