“I have been afraid for a long time. In some episodes of my adolescence they have hit me among seven simply to go on TV. At this time I spent a lot of fear and it is a fear that is established, do not take it away.” So The actor and musician Víctor Elías is sincere in the testimony that begins the third season of “EDUCING AGAINST BULLYING”the platform online of videos of the Colacao Foundation aimed at families with the aim of providing keys and tools to provide help in emotional education in values such as self -confidence, empowerment and prevention of bullying among their children.
After the success of the last two seasons, which already have more than 21 million visualizations, the Cocao Foundation (coinciding with World Day against Harassment held every May 2) presents the first testimony of this third season. On this occasion, together with Víctor Elías, actress Silma López, the influencer Núria Casas, and expert psychologists and pediatricians like Lucia Galán (Lucia my pediatrician) or Patricia Ramírez. These are added a Lara Álvarez, Sara Carbonero, Cristina Castaño, Nacho Guerreros, Carme Chaparro, Álex Roca, Ana Milan, Almudena Cid, Vanesa Romero, Rafa Guerrero or Jero García, personalities that have also shared their experiences of bullying and have offered advice to combat the bullying.
“In Spain, Almost two students per classroom are victims of bullying. It is important that this problem is spoken and therefore from the Colacao Foundation we promote projects and initiatives to sensitize, investigate and educate around bullying, such as’ educating against the bullying’. We must put this problem in the center: it is everyone’s thing, ”says Javier Coromina, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Colacao Foundation.
Víctor Elías’s testimony
“At school, I had the nickname of the ‘gerrinal’, which had nothing to do, but they called me so so that people would not approach me.” This is how Victor Elías recalls his time at school, specifically, from 6 to 10 years until they changed him school. The reason? “Because I couldn’t anymore.” In his testimony, the actor emphasizes that, during the school stage, leaving on television was not easy, because his classmates treated him differently: “Not going to school and going on TV was not the typical thing about ‘Ah, what a guay’, and like my classmates. The fact of being different, the one that does something else or other activities, lack of school, the exams change …, it is not entirely pleasant when you are 7 or 8 years old.”
Therefore, Elijah highlights the importance of talking about what happens to us as children: “Talking is very important. To say how we feel makes us feel better.” In addition, He also appreciates having a family environment where communication is facilitated: “I went from being in a little unstructured home to a more organized place. I thank my uncles to have a constant talk with me, not only about my feelings, but also of the good and bad things that happened to me. When you are 15 years old you think it is a roll, but, now, reasoning it thinks that ‘less bad’. This older allows you to make your own decisions. ”
Finally, he advises children to look internally to detect what happens to them: “A advice is to talk to ourselves and ask how we ask our parents and relatives: ‘How am I?’ We try to get better with ours”.
Initiatives of the Colacao Foundation
The Cocao Foundation, created in 2021, has the objective of encouraging children to make the best of themselves, defending what makes them unique, and fighting bullying. This entity vertebra its social action through three axes: that of the education —With the development of educational projects -, that of the disclosure —Promoing the social debate – and where the project “Educating against the bullying”, And that of the investigation —To through the development of studies that provide quality data.
Within the framework of education, The objective is to boost educational projects for children and families that seek to help in the prevention of bullying. One of its most prominent programs is the free school project “We are only”, intended for all Primary schools in Spainto address the problem of bullying from the root, through Emotional education and the prevention. This last project has been established three school courses with a very good reception by the educational community. In fact, since the beginning of the project more than 3,600 schools have been registered and in this course more than more than 180,000 students.
As for the research axis, the Colacao Foundation together with the Complutense University of Madrid, has made The I study on bullying and cyberbullying in Spain in childhood and adolescence. This is the most complete research to date in our country with a sample of almost 21,000 students from the 17 Autonomous Communities, which reflects that from 4th grade to 4th secondary school Almost two students per classroom – 6.2% – recognize themselves as victims of bullying. In addition, the study also reveals that 2.1% of students recognize themselves as a stalkers – a stalker for every two classes – and 16.3% – almost 5 students per classroom – claim to have witnessed situations in which a partner from the same center has been harassed. The study also highlights data on cyberbullying, where 10.3% of young people with Internet access without adult supervision reported having suffered during the last two months and repeatedly some situation of ciberbullyingand relate both harass, highlighting that almost half of the victims of bullying (46.4%) also suffer ciberbullyingso the suffering lengthens beyond the hours of assistance to the school.
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