By Mick Quinn and Debora Prieto | Co-Founders
A very Merry and Happy Holidays to you all is coming from all 33 teenagers who attend our Critical-Thinking Program at our school, La Academia, here in Guatemala!!!
Education is the heart of our work. The Critical-Thinking / Advanced Functioning Skills Program for teenagers is about changing culture from the inside out. We are working towards this goal, not by teaching our students what to think, but by teaching them how to think for themselves.
While the concept of critical-thinking may seem simple to someone in a developed country, in Guatemala children are taught by their parents that their futures will be a carbon copy of all previous generations; a life of hardship full of tough manual labor and physical, emotional, and psychological suffering. IHF teaches them that this is simply not true, and that they are capable of rising above this insidious cycle.
We are looking forward to a wonderful year in 2017!!
Thank you for all the support,
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