Empower Highly Outcast Children and Their Families

¡Time has passed by flying this summer and we have so many things to share with you!

As the summer begun children started school vacation for the next one and a half months, while this was happening all the teachers were on training to learn and consolidate new teaching strategies. We always look to improve every class and session.

But there´s was one program that outstand this season, we are talking about “My Rights”, responsible of promote, procure and protect children’s rights to identity, education, protection, and play.

As you may heard before, this 2018 the fifth generation started its process in our programs, and so far they been doing it great, but there were still some children that were not attending to school and some others didn’t have their birth certificate. And as these are two essential rights, we needed to speed out the process to make it happen, a process that requires determination.

After some weeks of hard work we finally achieved that four children get their birth certificate and other four were subscribed in the school system, it would not have been possible with the great support and disposition of the families.

And if this weren’t enough, we are happy to share that three children of the graduated generations are now part of a scholarship program that will support their college studies.

But it wouldn’t be summer without fun activities, so before our children started school again, we took them to one of the biggest parks in the metropolitan area and to a Museum for kids, making the most of their vacation and having a great time building new learning experiences.

Finally, in order to contribute to their right to education one of our partners gave to every child a new backpack with school supplies. For some families is hard to afford the material they will need along the course and it can determine whether they send them to school or not, fortunately now it’ll be easier for the kids to continue with their elementary studies.

All this happened in one trimester and were glad you are being part of this story thanks to your contribution. Let’s keep bringing out the best in us to make this world a better place for everyone.

Childhood is one of the most important stages in a person´s life, this is the age in which we learn our vision of ourselves and the world, this is the age were the bases are being settled for our personal development, but most important this is the age were dreams are being born. That’s why this trimester, to remember that they are an important key to our society’s future, we celebrated Children´s day, starting with a party organized by pedagogy students in which they participated in fun games and activities, it was and environment full of joy. For some of them it was the first time celebrating this day.

Another way we celebrated, was through our project “Change agents 2030”, that consisted mainly that the teenagers' group had to create social projects aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals to impact the community, developing a sense of change agents with the help of a mentor. The objective of this activity was to empower them to act in favor of the neighborhood they live in, using simple and effective actions, applying the abilities they developed at Mayama. As a result we got 7 projects focus on environment, social development and peace.

For last but no less important, we culminated with very great news. As you might remember at the beginning of this year we welcomed a new generation of children in Mayama, some of them live in poverty and some others in extreme poverty, sometimes this means they don’t go to school because they are not even officially registered. So during these three months we gave ourselves the work to help the first family of this generation to register their children so they could have access to one of the most important human rights: Identity. Having access to this right opens the door to many others, such as education and health services.

Working with children can be challenging but is also the most satisfying job, seeing them grow, develop and discovering the world is a new opportunity to learn with them and to let our inner child be. This couldn’t be possible without your support, it has been an elemental key to build good memories in their lives; you are an important part of Mayama.

¡Let’s keep celebrating the beauty of childhood bringing out the best in us!