Providing 570 students with digital education (Gt)

Niños de Guatemala

Providing Digital Education to 570 Students during the Pandemic

Total Funds Raised: $114,438.

Total Tablets Purchased: 114 tablets.

Total Schools Benefited: 3 Schools.

Total Children impacted: 570 students.

We want to sincerely thank all our supporters for your generous donations during this amazing campaign, which allowed our students to receive digital education during the Covid-19 Pandemic lock down.

Generosity transforms the world, one act of kindness at a time, and your participation in this effort, is proof to that statement.

Due to the global crisis that originated with the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020, our students had to do remote learning for almost three years. As most of our students lack access to connectivity and electronic devices, they suffered significant learning loss, falling behind in Math, Reading, Writing and English. The lack of routine and diminished interaction with others affected our students' mental health and social skills. While not attending school, they did not have access to the daily nutritious meal we supply them and were less active physically, affecting their development.

Thanks to the funds raised throughout this campaign, our then 570 students, from 3 community-based schools, were able to continue learning their academic material remotely with access to digital tablets, as they also climbed on the accelerated technology learning-curve that impacted it us all during lock down.

As we reflect on the great impact of this campaign, we look forward to face the future with even more progress plans. Stay tuned for our new fundraising campaigns for 2023 as we continue to increase and improve the programs our children have access to through the holistic education programs at Niños de Guatemala.

The purpose of holistic education is to prepare students to meet the challenges of living as well as academics.  It is a comprehensive approach to teaching where educators seek to address the emotional, social, ethical, and academic needs of students in an integrated learning format. Emphasis is placed on positive school environments and providing academic and nonacademic support to students.

Thank you!

Sincerely,

Patricia Starrs

Director of Fundraising 

Links:

• http://www.ninosdeguatemala.org

How time flies when you are changing lives and having fun!

Our school year ended last weekend, and even though we feel sad to say our kids goodbye, we also feel proud to see them succeed another year. And as 2022 is coming to an end too, we thought it would be fun to go through memory lane and remember all the good things that happened this year.

Thanks to the funds raised last year on GlobalGiving we were able to buy 30 more tablets! We started the year stronger than ever and with that tablets, we had the opportunity to start covering the Eight grade. 

Moving on to the middle of the year, we had the exciting news that our students could go back to in-person education. Having them back in their classrooms represented a new way of education where the traditional mode met the technology mode creating a new balance. With the help of technology we are able to show them better ways of learning and working. Now they know that some of the schoolwork that they are doing in class can be finished at home thanks to Google classroom, Teams, Tzunun, and other platforms 

We hope that next year we can continue implementing this new balance with the rest of the Eighth graders and start with the Seventh grade. Thanks to your donations we are able to prepare our students for a world where technology is not something you want but something that you need. We hope your year has been filled with positive energies and good news as our year has been. Thank you for joining us on this incredible journey.