Growing, growing, growing...
Here at AMG Guatemala, one of the things we have been working on this year is "Life Skills" training. We have challenged all of our childcare centers to help the sponsored children develop skills that they can use to help provide for themselves and their families. Below are a few examples of how some of our centers have carried out the challenge!
Verbena School, Guatemala City - "We have been working this year to teach our sponsored students gardening and planting concepts that they can share with their families, creating opportunities for them to grow their own food and/or sell in their communities. The students have been given plots of land near their classrooms to grow different vegetables that they can bring home and enjoy. They have been so excited about this new program and were thrilled with the results shown below. They were all so proud of their work!!"
Also, a few weeks ago Robin and I took a trip to western Guatemala to visit some of our childcare centers in that part of the country. In some of these centers, they are teaching the children Life Skills such as sewing and weaving. Here are a few pictures of our visits and some of the "life skills" that are being taught.
Nahuala childcare center in western Guatemala - "we are teaching weaving, embroidery work and knitting to mothers of sponsored children to help them develop skills that can help them provide for their families."
Otto, one of our supervisors, "reluctantly" modeling a hat and bag! :)
And a few pictures of our visits to various childcare centers.
Here is Ruth with a group of sponsored children:
A drama the little ones put on for us:
Robin with a few girls who were pretty excited that she was there:
Bob and a little boy:
As always, thanks for sharing with us. Have a great day!
