By Debora Prieto and Mick Quinn | Co-founders
Ethics and morals form the basis of our values.
At the Integral Heart Foundation we think that although intellectual and academic achievements are important, they don’t have significant value if they don’t go hand in hand with moral development.
Our senior students are going through a 3-year full-time intellectual program, helping us in La Academia (our school in Guatemala) with the younger students in tutorial classes and they also participate and serve others in the community. In doing so, their hearts are expanding and so are their views and perspectives in life in regard to tolerance, other cultures, philosophies, ways of thinking and customs.
In the last three months theyhave also helped us with our families, not only at the school but also doing social visits with our social worker to the homes of our sponsored students. Seeing the homes of the little ones made them think a lot about what to expect of them when are in our classes and this is teaching htem to be more considerate.
The senior students have also visited a school in their own neighborhood, which they were not aware of, for deaf-mute children whose families have a humble background. Since that visit they have become interested in learning their language as they realized how difficult it was for them to communicate with their peers because they never thought about speaking with sign-language.
Our senior students are also volunteering in clinics that operate on Sundays by local charities specializing in animals, pets and street dogs; to neuter/spay animals who come from financially poor families or even directly from the street. They spend their Sunday’s helping to make these clinics happen.
We are so proud of these amazing students and all they can teach to the younger ones, not only with their own learning and experiences but also by example.
We think they are on a great path to make Guatemala a better place and they are the ones who are going to teach the younger generations how it can be done!
To all of you who are trusting us to make this happen, thank you so much, your heart and donations are making a big difference at all levels in this small community.
From the bottom of our hearts Thank You!
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