Inspire 3000 Honduran Children to Excel

We are pleased to tell you about a NEW CHAPTER in our book of continued commitment to foster reading!

As our education team continues trekking towards providing a wholesome education for our students, we created a partnership with Proyecto Chispa or "Project Spark." This non-profit in Honduras focuses on providing books to schoolchildren and preparing teachers to engage creatively with their students. 

Together with the Department of Education in Intibuca, we provided training sessions for 120 teachers. Our Chispa partners covered topics like how to motivate students to keep reading a book they've already started and how to foster imagination by asking children to think of alternative book endings. Many teachers not only received the benefit of passing this knowledge on to their students, but also to their own children as many of them are parents too. One teacher mentioned how this initiative complements the digital books already available in Kolibri. Adding how her students come from low-income backgrounds who "couldn't allow themselves to buy a book, yet in Kolibri we have a great diversity of books. [I am] very happy to utilize this teaching method in my classes." 

With the conclusion of this training we have begun preparing our schools for this year's reading contest as we create excitement amongst the professors who can then ignite the "spark" onto their students. 

Until the next chapter!

Links:

• Mini Documentary of Chispa Training
• Training Blog on our CREE website

Another school year in Honduras is well underway, and we are excited for a new partnership with Project Trust!  As an organization, they connect gap-year students  (high school graduates, taking a year off before university) from the United Kingdom with partners abroad. Project Trust's Honduras representative, Jake Compaan, who also serves as director for the 'Vida Abundante' bilingual school in Yamaranguila, connected us with two young women from "across the pond" who have now travelled all the way to our bilingual school in Camasca.

Oli and Jasmine, will be spending half a year with us and they have already hit the ground running, by hosting an English enrichment program with our bilingual junior/senior high school students during their first month. And now that school is in session, they are happy accompanying our elementary school bilingual school students in their daily routines.

Their help will be invaluable as ANY volunteer at our school always provides an opportunity for our children to practice their pronunciation and vocabulary. We are excited to see what other projects they get involved in while they are down in Camasca and wish them a wonderful learning expereince that they can share with peers in the future. 

Welcome Oli and Jasmine, we are happy and excited to have you in Camasca!