Aprender Jugando - Programa de Transferencias Metodológicas

Summary

The video presents Tiempo de Juego (“Play Time”), a foundation that began working in Cazucá about 13 years ago. It started by placing a soccer ball in a field to engage children with abundant free time. The activity also brought parents together and helped strengthen community relationships.

A central lesson from the foundation’s experience is to let communities shape the work. Local people have the skills and knowledge to respond to their own needs. For example, a bakery initially created to provide snacks for children grew into a social enterprise that provides jobs and involves mothers in the program. Young participants also became community leaders and now help guide the foundation’s work.

Tiempo de Juego developed “Football for Peace,” a method that uses sports—and later artistic activities such as music—to build values and life skills. The video describes transferring this approach to other communities while adapting it to each place rather than applying it as a fixed formula.

Methodology transfer process

1. Participatory diagnosis

   • Use play to communicate and build rapport.
   • Listen to community members to understand local conditions, needs, and opportunities.
   • Identify local leaders who can adopt, implement, and sustain the methodology.

2. Collective construction

   • Invite leaders from the new community to an immersion at an established Tiempo de Juego center.
   • Use the experience to explore what community activities could achieve.
   • Decide together what to promote or change, which life skills to emphasize, what activities children are likely to enjoy, and where and when to hold them.

3. Implementation

   • Local leaders organize sports and arts activities for children and young people.
   • They put the community’s agreed psychosocial approach into practice.
   • The Tiempo de Juego team provides in-person and virtual support.

The intended result is an empowered community: children take part in meaningful activities during their free time, parents become involved, and local leaders can continue directing the program so it lasts over time.

The video also features Ladrillera Santafé, a company that partnered with Tiempo de Juego. Its representative says the program helped the company connect with communities through soccer and the arts. The approach addressed concerns about children’s free time and residential coexistence while creating opportunities to build values, peace, and cooperation. The company views community engagement as part of being a good neighbor and notes that strong community relationships can benefit employees and the business.

Speakers and sources featured

• Tiempo de Juego representatives: Describe the foundation’s origins, community-led approach, methodology, and transfer process.
• Ladrillera Santafé representative: Explains the company’s partnership and the value of the “Building by Playing” program.
• Music: Background music is heard; no musician or song source is identified in the subtitles.