Educate 120 Girls in Cusco for Economic Survival

Chicuchas Wasi teachers are creative...

Chicuchas Wasi teachers are specially trained to focus on empowering poor indigenous girls in a culture that has systematically disempowered girls and women for generations. Unique ways of getting and holding their attention, stretching their abilities with resultant achievements help to build confidence and self-esteem and are part of everyday learning at the CW school for girls. 

Our 4 & 5 year old kindergarten girls enter CW school with shyness and a lack of confidence that is quickly overcome with our teaching style and examples from the older girls. Our youngest girls in blue smocks in these photos are explaining to their classmates their Peruvian culture from the images on the board and demonstrate the types of houses or fishing boats used in Peru. With time and much practice they lose the shyness and stand tall and proud of their achievements. In keeping with the recent National Peru Independence from Spain, all classes learn and build a growing awareness of Peruvian history.

                    We cannot say this enough!

                               THANK YOU

for 19 years giving education to our girls. YOUR donations have kept our school doors open and education free to 112 girls who otherwise could not attend school at all. 

 YOU have made a HUGE difference in their futures

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Our school has grown from 13 little girls in a one room school to the 112 girls enrolled in our beautiful full primary school today. This is an amazing feat. We have overcome tremendous resistance from their community, to the active and enthusiastic support and participation from their families and community today. The progress of these girls is visible and spreads out at home, to their siblings, cousins, neighbors and beyond. More girls come to enroll every February now.

     WORDS FROM A VISITING UK GROUP...

“Chicuchas Wasi is a fantastic organisation and we wish them all the best. They were introduced to us by our tour guide, Efrain Valles, and we visit the group twice a year now on our tours. The project is doing such incredible work and there is always a sense of joy and enthusiasm from all those involved, not least the girls themselves. We are very privileged to visit the project and we always try to support them whenever we can. Many thanks for the warm welcomes we always receive, it is always one of the highlights of our tours to see the wonderful work being done by your incredible team."
                            – www.MeetthePeopletours.co.UK  

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             WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH 

Links:

• Official NEW Chicuchas Wasi website-please have a look

How do Chicuchas Wasi girls learn..

THANK YOU for supporting our girls and their education for 19 years. YOUR donations have kept our school doors open and education free to girls who otherwise could not attend school at all. 

                                      THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!  

                                      http://www.chicuchaswasi.org/

We teach CW girls the value of working together to come up with new ideas they never thought of alone and problem solving with their classmates for the best outcome. Every primary grade uses this style for some subjects and the girls have learned the value of collaboration with their classmates for great ideas. One assignment was to depict daily living (Project about Life) using math, creative problem solving for a better solution to a problem, sharing resources and more. The girls must write a report on their assignment, explain their findings and present them to the student body (photos of the 6th grade class). Younger students often eavesdrop, learn and copy the older girls - they too have big dreams and are eager to learn all they can.

Our girls dive into their assignment and don't mind the younger girls who gather around eager to learn about this lesson too. This is one of the ways to have our girls share their realities, daily responsibilities and difficulties and come up with better ways to reach their daily goals or help their families. CW girls have big dreams for their futures, becoming teachers, nurses, doctors and run their own business one day and empower each other as they share their realities and positive attitudes.

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To exaggerate the point, Ruth created a plan to help our soon-to-graduate girls understand better the huge responsibility and life changing reality of having a baby too young. The 6th grade girls were each given two raw eggs to care for as if they were their real babies. They could brag about their babies, adorn them to their liking but they could not neglect them and must protect them from breaking just like in real life.

The 6th grade girls about to move on to a co-ed high school are vulnerable to become teen mothers and needed a graphic learning experience that the raw eggs provided. Having a baby requires preparation that an 11 - 12 year old is too young to have and the ability to provide and care for the baby; housing, food, washing diapers, medical care if needed and so much more. The raw eggs didn't always get the care needed during this lesson and some broke. The girls got the point.

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“Because of its "multiplier effect", literacy helps eradicate poverty, reduce child mortality, curb population growth, achieve gender equality and ensure sustainable developmet, peace and democracy.”                              - UNESCO 

                                Gracias - THANK YOU - Merci

Links:

• Official NEW Chicuchas Wasi website-please have a look