Christmas in nurseries or social assistance centers

It is very likely that for the majority of girls and boys on the planet, the Christmas season is their favorite as some of the most beautiful and memorable memories of their childhood are created during this time and that will accompany them throughout their lives.

In addition to enjoying the holidays, getting excited about the arrangements, the decoration and getting out of bed a little later, at Christmas time it is a pleasure to spend time with friends and loved ones and show them our love and how important they are to us in our life.

However, have we ever wondered what Christmas is like for those children and adolescents who do not have a family, who have been abandoned, who are migrants or who, to protect their physical and emotional integrity, it is best to stay away from their mother? and dad?

According to teacher Dulce María Mejía Cortés, general director of legal representation of girls, boys and adolescents of the National System for the Comprehensive Development of the Family (SNDIF), Christmas time in nurseries or social assistance centers It is also special and welcoming for minors who face different family and social situations.

“How do you live the Christmas season? It is a wonderful time to live with girls, boys and adolescents who are in the social assistance centers of the national system; you live in a normal way, like in your house, like in mine “The children, of course, who like gifts and like piñatas, like posadas and that coexistence with their peers and also with peers who are in social assistance centers, happens on a daily basis.”

It is not difficult to know about their wishes for Santa Claus or the Three Wise Men, especially in the case of older boys and girls, the official pointed out.

“There are also adolescent boys and girls, of course what they want is to see their family. On some occasions this family coexistence cannot occur, what we do is explain to them why some girls, boys, adolescents come to the centers of social assistance for this residential accommodation, on some occasions, the same parents or family are the ones who commit what the law indicates as crimes in their grievance, or children who have been abandoned by their family or who are foundlings, that is, they do not even They know the family, they don’t even know who their parents are,” he explained.

When faced with a case like that, a lot of psychological work is carried out and the reason why he cannot live with his family is explained to the young person, even if it is his greatest wish.

“For example, in the case of children or adolescents who are in the context of human mobility, migration, their family is in another country; but what we do do in the national system is to try, ensure that the girls, “Children and adolescents feel in an environment of affection, welcome, in an environment of care,” highlighted Mejía Cortés.

Family circumstances or social environment do not prevent boys, girls as well as the little ones from enjoying a good dinner on December 24 and feeling joy and excitement when they wake up on January 6, Three Kings Day to confirm that a gift for them.

“What we do do in the National DIF System is to try, to ensure that girls, boys and adolescents feel in an environment of affection, in an environment of welcome and in an environment of care, above all (…) It guarantees that each of the children receives a gift; the children even write their letter where they give the options of what the gifts are, what they want? for example for Three Kings and that comes to them” he stated in the interview with Grupo Imagen Multimedia.

By December 2023, around 160 children and adolescents will have a Christmas very similar to that of the rest of the population in Mexico; They are even present in the good wishes of girls and boys who today have the fortune of being part of a family.

This is the case of Ari, 10 years old, who asked among his wishes for boys and girls who do not have a family like him, that they enjoy the time of Christmas to live together.

“Let them bring toys, let everyone live together, let them play games, let the children have fun,” he expressed when going to play at Los Venados park in the company of his mother and younger brother.

Yaretzi, a 9-year-old girl who also took advantage of the vacation time to take a walk in the park, commented on her wish that children without families and who live in facilities like those of the DIF “eat well and have a little place so that they are not cold, they are not hungry, or cold.”