Educate 80 street working children in Guadalajara!

Since the last report, Mexico has faced the second COVID-outbreak, which have impacted the children and their families’ financial situation and threatened their health - 97% of all our beneficiaries and their families have been affected negatively financially by the crisis since its beginning.

Due to the pandemic, this program had to adapt to the restrictions issued by the local authorities. We keep attending the children in the ways that we are allowed to, either attending them in the streets, in our educational centre, or at their homes. The operation is continuously shifting from “in-person” to “at distance”. We hand out the printed educational activities together with pantries when we aren’t able to carry out the activities in the streets as planned. The pantries are still handed out once a week, containing food and basic utensils for the children and the families, to mitigate the extreme stress they are living at the moment.

But, in the midst of the critical situation, we are living at the moment, there is room for some great news as well… Seven children have been canalized from our street program to our school program! This implies that they have improved their educational abilities, but also their social-emotional skills have improved to such degree that they can be integrated into our school. This is a significant step in their path to creating a better future for themselves!

On behalf of MAMA, I would like to express my sincere gratitude for all the support we have received. Thanks to you, this intervention is still possible, even though the odds are against us in times of crisis.