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  • Implementing Organization: Fundación Quito Joven
  • Type: Proof-of-Concept
  • Location: Quito, Ecuador 
  • Thematic Area(s): Arts, Sports, Storytelling

Tejido Colectivo weaves together circus arts, climbing and a rights-based psychosocial intervention into a city-wide prevention model. Working in four priority neighborhoods, it co-creates weekly labs for 10- to 24-year-olds, centering free creative expression, collective storytelling and guided body-mind practices. Each session is designed to rebuild trust and belonging. Circus arts cultivate physical confidence and emotional co-regulation; climbing activates problem-solving and peer support; art-and-story workshops surface personal strengths and reshape fear-driven narratives.