By Emma Guerra | Director of Education
Expanding the education programs in the rural community with music, ballet , painting classes and a cine-club.
Our Foundation is convinced that providing art classes to children between the ages of 6 and 15 is very helpful in their integral education. In this rural community called Don Diego, the children and the youth do not have the means , or the access to cultural activities. The public school does not provide it, and they cannot afford to pay private teachers for those classes.
Our teaching staff continues with the after school support in maths, reading, computer and sciences classes, with good results, But that is not enough for their integral education, and for their motivation to learn .
We have dedicated part of the DONATIONS RECEIVED from various generous donors, some of them thru GLOBAL GIVING, to build a new classroom this summer, specially made for the area classes, and for multimedia , specially for showing educational videos and films, with a good 4k projector.
The children are very happy with the art music and ballet classes, this motivates them to frequent the education center, and it opens their mind , and motivates them
The small cine club, is also a great tool to not only entertain them, but to show them movies that foster human values. Our teacher are using this tool, the cinema, in their academic work, to develop the creativity, and transmit information, knowledge, values and to develop social skills in the students.
Is is important to mention that most of these children and youth, in the rural area, do not have the money to visit the commercial movie theaters of the near by town , San Miguel, and do not have quality , big tv sets at home.For many of them this new classroom with the big projector, is a blessing, and hopefully will help them in their education and social life, keeping them away from being vagabonds in the streets.
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