Educate and Empower Girls in Mexico

Dear GlobalGivers,

We are happy to spread cheer and good news during this holiday season!  

As we mentioned on our last report we are continuing our work in schools with teachers and students from the Acaxochitlán community.

Our workshop started in August and just concluded with the participation of 35 teachers and 3 head managers from 17 different schools.  After the workshop, an activities kit was given to each teacher for them to use during class. These activities kits are a fun way to teach and for students to learn about gender equality and risk prevention, in an interactive way. Of course, our Yo quiero Yo puedo collaborators will be accompanying the teachers during these classroom activities.

Since we are so proud and happy to be carrying out this project, our board members were eager to visit and were finally able to during this last month of November. During their visit they observed classroom activities, met and had conversations with teachers and parents.

For the next phase this last month of the year and continuing into the next one, our team will be working with teachers to adapt the program into their classroom activities.  Yo quiero Yo puedo will be there to support teachers and students during this learning (and fun!) process in the following months.

We have included photos from these past activities and we look forward to continue sharing upcoming news with you!

Happy Holidays!

We want to give all of you a warm welcome back!

The new school year has started and we are continuing with our work of empowering girls full speed. We gave our teachers and students time to relax and enjoy their summer and now we are back with new fun activities for everyone!

As we are still carrying out many activities with new (and old) participants, we would like to share with you what we are up to:

We had a very successful beginning of the year meeting with educational authorities. These authorities are in charge of elementary schools mostly attended by indigenous children and we were granted the participation of 7 more schools; this completes a total of 17 participating schools.

Since it is our second year in this community, our team has also been busy visiting schools that participated during the first year. Not only that, but they have supported and guided these teachers during their activities with students.

A 40 hour workshop for new teachers is currently underway; during this workshop they learn more about themselves, acquire new knowledge and prepare to replicate with their students.  

They replicate these fun activities and share this newly acquired knowledge in their classrooms with their students. Of course, we help them prepare fun and age appropriate activities for their students and ensure that they are sharing these messages in an optimal manner.

Our goal this year is to train 400 girls and 400 boys in life skills, sexual health, reproductive health, STIs prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, violence prevention and (we added this new topic this year!) masculinities. As we have been working for many years, all of our programs have a gender equality focus; therefore, we are excited to include this new topic about masculinities to our program.

As always, we want to THANK YOU for your ongoing support. We wouldn’t be able to continue our work without it.

Until next time!