By Daney Ramirez | Las Claras Director
First, THANK YOU for your donations and on-going support for The Las Claras Proyect. A lot of great things have happened since our last report. Finally, our project is more than stats and empty walls under construction at our center in Felipillo now we have faces, people we want you to meet.
Last November, Vital Voices Panama hired an A+ team that will lead and conduct all projects at Centro Las Claras in Felipillo. Two psychologists and one social worker joined the team lead by our Director and right away started an arduous job to build a strong curriculum in life skills, academics, psychological support, health and values that will help create strong, empowered, and highly educated young mothers that will change their communities in amazing ways.
Once certain of the intervention, the team hits the road, literally. Since January, the Las Claras team has been visiting health centers, clinics, hospitals, schools, churches, community leaders, etc., recruiting teen mothers for the program. The teens’ life stories are shocking, these young women have faced and live in deplorable situation, yet their strong sense of resilience is truly inspiring. Then you meet their babies, and you can’t stop thinking of the future they deserve. The Las Claras project will support early childhood development and help build the bond between mother and child, a bond that when strong and highly stimulated will change the future of these babies and of their community. It’s the faces that now keep us moving and inspire us every day.
We are also new in the Felipillo community and we started meeting our new neighbors. They are warriors, constantly battling to survive. We are excited to share a space with them and that is why we hosted a party titled “Dia de Colores” for the children in the community. Clowns without Borders made more than 300 children who joined us laugh and our friends from Voces Vitales helped us with cookies and small presents for all the children. We were happy to meet our neighbors and bring laughter to our community.
Finally, we met and shared with passionate students from Texas Christian University Global Academy three days in the community of Felipillo learning about our project and learning straight from community leaders everything you need to know about Felipillo. Students captured in a video their time in Felipillo and they even interviewed teen mothers at their homes, bringing to all of you a real time view of these young mothers lives, giving you all the oportunity to meet all the faces of the project. Thank you TCU!
Remember you are also an importance FACE in this project! Thank you for your support your continuous support in this quest for a better quality of life for teen mothers and their children. Keep donating and invite other to join us in this quest with their donation.
More faces and action still to come. Stay tuned!
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