By Kate Robey | Charitable Trust Operations Manager
Dear Supporter,
Towards the end of 2015 the GVI Mexico staff and volunteers started, what is hoped to be, a long-term project within the community of Invasores. The project aims to provide the children with a variety of educational workshops covering several topics (English, literacy, movement and health).
The Invasores community is an area with extreme poverty, containing people from some states within the south of Mexico who have built their homes using the waste materials from a nearby industrial dump site. This community is illegally based on federal land and has an association with limited access to educational resources and other social issues including over population of animals, such as cats and dogs. This issue has been address by our current partner Cocos Animal Welfare.
In partnership with Cocos, GVI ran a 1 week summer school within Invasores that included a variety of educational sessions covering several topics. This 1 week, short-term project was such a great success that it was always the aim to continue this work within a more long-term project.
Towards the end of the year, we facilitated the first weekly educational workshop to children within this community, covering similar topics previously carried out in the 1 week summer school session.
The current structure of these workshops includes starting at 9am in the morning and begins with a welcome for the children, followed by a pre-prepared workshop, focusing on either English, literacy, movement and health) and finishes with a short reflection and goodbye reviewing the day’s activities and the children’s response to the lesson. Hand washing resources and drinking water are also provided for the children if required.
Upon completion of this workshop, a report is completed that includes information on the number and age of the children, the planned educational activity, a summary on what was successful and what can be improved on in regards to the planning for forthcoming lessons.
We are very excited about the future of this project going into 2016 and we look forward to brining you more news and updates.
With Gratitude,
GVI Mexico
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