Education Mexico Project #11972

Empower Highly Outcast Children and Their Families

by Mayama A.C.

Project Report | Jul 26, 2017
Caring for caregivers of our children!

By Nalleli Sierra Solis | Development Coordinator

Diagnosis of hip in yoga class

Emotional exhaustion, loss of enthusiasm, decreased self-efficacy are the main symptoms of Burn Out, Vicarious Trauma or Compassion Fatigue, which add to physical, mental and emotional suffering from chronic stress associated with professionals dedicated to the care of others. Although the Mayama team can be classified as operational and administrative, we believe that as long as attention is paid to the mental health of the collaborators, it will be directly reflected in the detriment or improvement in the fulfillment of the institutional mission and in this sense in the Quality of care that our children receive and the positive impact on improving their quality of life.

On this occasion we want to share our donors, a project that happens "behind the scenes", but we consider key that they know because if you are part of Mayama (with its constant support to the development of our 240 children we currently attend), Less that Mayama can do, is to co-invest (be co-responsible) with the health of the team that cares for the children.

This project that we share today, has been implemented during 2017, and is a mental health program for employees that covers the main aspects for the care and prevention of human suffering: physical, mental and emotional; Through oriental techniques: 1) Yoga (physical), 2) Ki-Gong (mental) active meditation, 3) Korean techniques and manopression (emotional) and 4) social integration strategies throughout 2017 .

The process started slowly (physically speaking), to detect illnesses. For example: after circular movements with the neck, palpate cervical area number 7, exercises that include sitting on the floor with legs bent at 90 degrees, lifting one leg at 90 degrees lying down, folding arm stretched towards body, touching jaw, base of the tongue; The group diagnosis at the moment throws team of collaborators of MAYAMA A.C. has problems of stress, lack of flexibility, back neck strain, feet, obesity, anxiety, exhaustion and physical and emotional fatigue. However, within the positive changes to 5 months of implementation, is that the collaborators mention have decreased headaches, stress, there is greater concentration, energy and more importantly: greater awareness of the emotional, physical and spiritual care of each one.

Do you consider this project important for the care of our children?

Thank you very much!.

Some exersices in Yoga class

Lesson of manopression (Mano-presion in Spanish)

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Apr 25, 2017
New Center in Educative Innovation Mayama.

By Nalleli Sierra Solis | Development Coordinator

"First Stone" event

Thanks to the initial donation of a loanable land by the government of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco in 2014, the creation of the advances in the capital campaign manual, the pro-bono donation of the architect Marco Amaral and the Lazo & Space Offices Who contributed to the architectural project with the design of spaces suitable for the education of children; It has managed to build the executive plan and the architectural plans that will be the basis for building the New Mayama Center.

At the end of 2016, we had “the First Stone” event to start officially the construction of the new Mayama Center. Our ambassador Sasha Sökol, as well as the donors who have joined to the campaign “We transform together” attended this event. It also began with the management of building permits and studies of "soil mechanics" in conjunction with the government of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco.

To date it has managed to manage 50% of the goal which consists of 16.9 million pesos; Money that is concentrated in a trust (special bank account) to give greater transparency and confidence to potential donors. The campaign is led by a campaign committee (led by Lorenzo Gallardo and Ernesto Saenz, members of the Board) to ensure the start of construction in 2017, as well as the search for donations in kind.

This new center will be able to attend annually 320 children, children and 180 families living violence and marginalization. Currently, Mayama's team is initiating the first contacts with the colony Valle de los emperadores in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga to begin the recruitment of the new beneficiaries who will be the first generation of children, children and families of the New Center. We need your help!

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"First Stone" Event with Sasha Sokol

Colony

Colony 2

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Jan 23, 2017
Back to School Program

By Nalleli Sierra Solis | Development Coordinator

Back to School Session

Almost 3 years (out of 5 in all), thanks to the implementation of the Back to School Program-BSP in conjunction with the Skills Development Program and the BSP-sessions with families, we have achieved the following results with the 3rd generation of children who entered in 2014: 1) It is the first generation that has been achieved to have 100% of children studying. 2) Of these 85 boys and girls who are currently studying, a strong evidence is the enrollment of 59 children (69%) in 2 schools of their colonies: the “Urbana 1098” school and the “Juan de la Barrera” school; and the rest (31%) are in the INEA (National Institute of Education for Adults, for its acronym in Spanish) and other elementary schools.

Of this 100% of children (85), 21% (18) is also studying within the 2 BSP-groups: a) literacy and b) regularization. Being 6 for the first and 12 for the second groups. In the “literacy” group are the children who by national educational policy are attending certain degree but they dont know basic functions like reading and writing and therefore are at de risk of dropping out. And, in the “regularization” group are the children that needs to reinforce their academic skills in spanish or mathematics.

This achievement makes us very happy if we remember that they are children living in environments of violence and high marginalization; conditions that affect directly in their development and especially their cognitive skills. In this sense, the results means that the BSP have developed literacy skills, concentration and mathematics, logics, in a specialized way, as a part por Mayama Program.

As part of this program there are sessions every 2 months with children's parents. These sessions are key to their academic development, because the main goal is to create study habits, develope discipline and become to parents co-participants in the exercise of the right to education of their children.

Our challenge for this project that continues is to detect with much greater specificity why some children do not advance like the rest. For example the case of Luis Ángel, who goes in 3rd grade, is 10 years old and does not manage to advance in syllables. For this, the Neurological Evaluation Battery has been acquired to be applied in this new cycle 2017; And thus be able to give a pre-diagnosis and be able to channel certain cases to specialized instances depending on whether the child's problem is academic, neurological or psychological.

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Session with parents

Parents working with their children

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