Help 455 At-Risk Children in Mexico Stay in School

Summary

Provide early education, breakfast, child care and psychological services for 455 disadvantaged preschoolers in the México City Metro Area whose working parents cannot afford these services otherwise. project reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

By the end of 2008, 33.4 million Mexicans had abandoned school before finishing 9th grade according to Mexico’s Secretary of Public Education. Children from low-income working families have the highest risks of malnutrition, school dropout, and continued poverty. This project guarantees quality education as well as essential services for 455 at-risk children in the Mexico City Metro Area to continue in school, grow healthy, and be cared for while their parents work.

Activities

Advance the quality of life of 455 at-risk children by providing them quality early education, child care, breakfast, school supplies, psychological help for children with learning disabilities and parenting classes for their mothers and fathers.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $7,660
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $5,134
Total Funding Goal: $12,794

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The preschoolers will achieve an age-appropriate physical, intellectual and emotional development to successfully advance in their education, despite of their family’s lack of resources. Parents will support them as effective co-educators at home.

Project Message

Thanks to this parenting school, I have a better attitude to face new challenges; and in this school my children are safer, confident, and mainly happier which gives me huge strength to improve.
- María Luisa Morales Flores, Benefitted Mother

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Adrian Menendez

Watteau # 49
Col. Nonoalco Mixcoac
México, D.F., Distrito Federal 03700
Mexico
011525530955606
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Organization

Fundacion Educa Mexico Logo

Fundacion Educa Mexico
Watteau #49 Col. Nonoalco Mixcoac
México, D.F., Distrito Federal 03700
Mexico
011525530955606
http://www.globalgiving.com/projects/help-455-at-risk-children-in-mexico-stay-in-school

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in MexicoMexico and can also be found under ChildrenChildren.

For more information about Mexico, read the Human Development Report on Mexico or the Wikipedia entry for Mexico.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 25, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 12, 2009

Latest Update from the Field

Essential Services for Preschoolers to Stay in School!

By The Fundación EDUCA México Team - Institutional Strengthening & Development, November 23, 2009 05:12 PM

Teacher Aurelia Guerrero reads a story to her class.Cardboard & clay volcanoes “erupt” with vinegar and baking soda.Preschoolers enjoy their balanced lunch.
Thank you very much for your generous support! Your donations have allowed us to continue supporting at-risk children with services that encourage them to stay and succeed in school. 65.9% of them come from families with monthly incomes between 77 USD and 230 USD. Therefore, these services make a significant impact in their daily lives.

“I really like to come to school because I make many friends and I like to study and eat” – Fernando Tafolla Ponce, Five-Year- Old Benefited Preschooler

Meals
SEDAC’s Pre-School provides balanced breakfast and lunch for its 455 students. Each month, the School serves an average of 3,285 breakfasts and 5,645 lunches. The nutrition program has now been complemented with medical monitoring of each child’s height and weight. As a result, school staff make sure that children who are underweight or who suffer malnutrition consume the necessary intake of food. In addition, their parents are being informed of their child’s growth and the school has invited a nutritionist to offer them advice to follow at home.

School Supplies
This Pre-School has a teaching staff of 18. They use teaching material to stimulate the Pre-Schoolers’ five senses focusing on personal and social development, language and oral communication, artistic expression, and exploration and knowledge of their surroundings. Your donations have supported the maintenance of their computer lab, and the purchase of school supplies such as different types of paper, coloring pencils, paint, scissors, wooden sticks, straws, seeds, magazines, balls and balloons. These supplies, along with those available in the school, aid in the development of their fine motor skills, communication and memory.

Psychological Services
Psychological attention is mainly provided for students whose disorders affect their integrity and cause poor academic performance. Many of their problems stem from their family’s problems at home; therefore, their families also receive guidance. During October 2009, 37 children and their parents received therapy to address learning disabilities, adjustment and behavioral problems, and speech therapy. Each child continues to receive therapy and guidance as long as necessary.

Parenting classes
52.83% of their parents list elementary or middle school as their highest level of schooling. As a result, they lack the skills to support their children with school related matters and personal development. With the donations that have been received, the school has been able to provide Parenting Classes. The school psychologist gives speeches about family values, parenting skills, and habits that their children are being encouraged to adopt, for instance, using a fork and knife to eat. As a result, parents become co-educators at home who reinforce the teachers’ work and their children’s accomplishments.

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Best regards,

The Fundación EDUCA México Team

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