By Laura Baas | General Director
Last January 25th, Mundo de Talentos celebrated its fifth anniversary in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas! Together with our students, alumni, their families, guest teachers and our dedicated team we looked back on five years of inspiring activities of vocational guidance in Chiapas and Oaxaca. Words of the founders and managers of Mundo de Talentos, Laura Baas and Eleni Asimakopoulos, illustrated the journey that started in 2019 and the impact that the project has had over the past years. Alumni spoke and guided activities during the celebration. We are proud of them!
In 2019 we celebrated the official opening of Mundo de Talentos A.C., as the first sister school of IMC Weekendschool on the Latin-American continent. Thanks to our committed partners and network of passionate professionals, 670 children of primary public schools were able to participate in our program of vocational guidance during the past five years and three generations graduated. With the trust and support of our great partner Hotel con Corazón we opened our second branch in Oaxaca City in 2023.
We have been able to build an involved community in Mexico and across the border and look forward to keep on building and creating special moments for our students where they can get inspired and motivated to follow their own path towards their future. We look back on a very meaningful and festive day and thank everybody who has been involved in making Mundo de Talentos a success!
In the week before this event, during the Crafts module, first year students from Oaxaca visited the workshop “Quesos Don Juan”, located in the municipality of Reyes Etla and recognized for being the “World Cradle of Cheese and Quesillo.” Thanks to the master cheesemaker Don Juan López Pérez the students learned about the history of quesillo and how it is produced. Don Juan López Pérez currently has a micro-business thanks to the quality products he produces and offers, recognizing the importance of consuming local products and contributing to the economy of Oaxacan families.
Some weeks before this, students of the first year in San Cristóbal de Las Casas closed the module Integral Health with an excursion to the Red Cross. The Youth Area invited the students to play and reflect on the importance of construction of citizenship and social awareness, with a focus on emergencies. In addition, they shared important tools to save lives. All the students brought their stuffed animal and practiced reanimation! At the end of the excursion they got the opportunity to enter an ambulance and experience a little what it is like to be a lifeguard in action.
Also in Oaxaca, the first year students explored the module of Integral Health, for example with a very interesting excursion to the Faculty of Medicine of the UABJO! Medicine students took on the role of guest teachers and guided our students through various parts of the faculty like the surgery room. They shared why they choose to study medicine, what their biggest challenges have been and what kind of skills they need to develop to be able to become a skilled physician. During various activities the students learned about medicine in general, the systems of the human body, the most common diseases and the medical specialties that treat them. Mundo de Talentos student and parents that volunteered during the excursion left super inspired.
As of announcements of the past months, we are excited to share that Viani Palacios from Chiapas and Alejandro Luis Cruz Macías from Oaxaca have joined the board of Mundo de Talentos! Both of them have already actively been involved in our activities. Alejandro as a guest teacher in Oaxaca during the masterclass of Entrepreneurship and by activating his professional network for our project. Viani fulfilled her social service with us in 2022 to finish her second degree in Economics (ITAM). She focused on topics such as impact measurement and improvement of (digital) systems.
Currently Alejandro is Vice President of COPARMEX Oaxaca and entrepreneur in the supply chain management, logistics, strategic planning and quality management consulting sector. Viani Palacios has experience in project management at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deals Strategy, Mexico City and is currently fulfilling her masters in Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University and Research. We are very pleased with the participation of these two new socially engaged members and are looking froward to working with them!
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