Argentina: Improving Children Access to Education

 Even if schools are still closed in Argentine, we are still working in accompanying children through their education. It was quite hard to address the change, reorganize and keep in touch with every child and family of the program. Especially in rural areas and slums, where children do not have access to digital services and devices, inequality in school access is increasing. Our team of teachers and social workers managed to visit families, coordinate the provision of school supplies and goods, develop specific activities with each family, according with their possibilities in order to keep accompanying girls and boys through their education. The communicate weekly, teachers mostly use phones, sometimes by WhatsApp, others by line or text. In Cristo Obrero, a school located in a slum of Santa Fe City, children are experimenting home gardens and recycling, together with their families. Last week they exchange pictures between them and with their sponsors / Padrinos. We want to share them also with you, so you'll find than attached!!! Thank you for trusting and no leave argentine children behind.  

Links:

• Padrinos Solidarios home page

After school ended on December, our students are enjoying their vacation. It’s being a very hot summer in Argentina, in chaco region and the north provinces temperatures reaches more than 40 C!

School will start again at the beginning of march, and so, from now to then, we will be focused in working together with schools on the organization and planning of 2020 activities. This is a very important phase, in fact, at the beginning of each year, ACDI’s coordinators design the main strategy for each initiative and school, defining together how to allocate founds to improve children’s education. Normally the majority of the schools we work with ask our sponsors to support school fees, transport, materials, uniforms and shoes, but also sport activities, health care, professional consulting for children and families who are passing through a very delicate situation and school canteen reinforcement.

This year, since the food emergence recognized by society and declared by the government, we decide to support particularly food security, through the reinforcement of school canteen but also promoting a series of project based on school gardening and the production of vegetables.

See below some pictures of our experience in Cristo Obrero School, Santa Fe, Provincia de Santa Fe.

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