By Inge Hernandez | Project Leader
December was a month full of different and exciting activities! We had 3 main celebrations in our four child centers: Family Nights, Kindergarten Graduations and, of course, Christmas celebrations.
During the Family Nights, we invited all the children’s families to visit the child centers so the teachers and the children could show their families the projects they worked on during the whole year. As you know, our child centers are inspired by the Reggio Emilia pedagogy – project based learning – so the children get to explain a year-long process of investigation, analysis, final products, but most importantly, get to explain everything they learned! This night is very important because the families get to see how their children have grown and developed so many abilities. These nights are very emotional to us because we get to see the parents’ reactions when they learn how intelligent and capable their children are.
Then, a few days later, we celebrated the Kindergarten Graduations in our four child centers as well! The children that completed the “transición” level got a diploma so they can now begin the first grade in their new schools. For us, these graduations were very moving because we have had the opportunity to see these children grow and learn so much throughout the years. Many of them began to come to our child centers when they were 1 year-old and now, four years later, we see them graduate and move on to a very important stage in their lives. This celebration meant a lot to us as well because we know the importance of investing in early childhood education, we know that this means that there are less probabilities for them to drop out of school and more probabilities for them to finish high school and to have the opportunity to go to college!
Lastly, we celebrated Christmas! Christmas is a very important time of the year because we get to contemplate about the important things in life. However, we also celebrated Christmas with fun and exciting parties in all the child centers. The children enjoyed all the activities, food and gifts we were able to give them thanks to donations from people like you.
Without a doubt, the children could not stop smiling and enjoying all these celebrations. At Fundacion DEHVI, we work to give these children the best opportunities so they can develop life-long skills that will help them in their present and their future. We passionately work so these children, when they get older, can remember their childhood as a time full of learning, excitement, laughter and a lot of love for them to be able to live their lives as strong persons of integrity.
Thanks to your donations, we are able to work together to keep benefitting these children living in poverty – and their families – and many more to come!
By Inge Hernandez Beck | Project Leader
By Inge Hernandez Beck | Project Leader
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