Empower Highly Outcast Children and Their Families

2019 was a great year for Mayama. Our number of beneficiaries grew from 120 children in 2011 to double children in 2019 to 289 and 53 families in Family Intervention Program. And also we visited to UN in order to present to Mayama Model and the new recent aspect with a Mexican enterprise “PETSTAR” that includes elements from an economy circular; as an example of project that includes he objective number 8 of 2030 agenda.

In terms of professionalism, we obtained a renovation and achieved the maximum level of transparency and resources management by the Mexican Philanthropy Centre (CEMEFI) and this is for us an opportunity to thank our donors for their confidence. We are now taking a path of constant evaluation, beginning with the children's improvements, and from the team as well, and also a commitment to share our results with both donors and beneficiaries (families).

And finally in this December we say goodbye a entire generation of 82 children that conclude their program; and we celebrated with a traditional Mexican party call “posada” with all families and children from Mayama.

Thanks to be part of Mayama this year. 

What’s your best memory of summer when you were a child?

As humans, experiences are a powerful element that help us grow and know the world that surround us, specially during childhood. For this reason, we are always in search of learning experiencies for our children that help them create amazing memories.

This summer wasn’t the exception, on the first week, children visited the local Zoo, in which they discovered the animal species that exist, the enviromental conditions that they need and the importance of taking care of the earth as the home that it is for all of us.

The second week they visited the local Aquarium, which was a sensory experience because of all the beautiful colors of the fish. Children were amazed by the diversity of sea animals they saw.

It was a great summer!

After it was finish, they were ready to go back to school. With the help of a local company, all of our children were able to have new school supplies, making possible for all of them start school on time, accesing their right to education. 

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Hello friend, its been three months since the last time you read us, and we are happy to share with you some of the most relevant events in our organization.

In March, we worked on prevention of sexual abuse, highlighting the difference between good and bad secrets, private parts of the body that no one can touch, and identifying their support network to ask for help in case they need to. This protection tools are important since they live in contexts that make them more vulnerable.

During April, we celebrated Children’s day, each group had his own event so it meant two days full of celebration. With the help of our volunteer partners we made possible to create a party with a lot of fun activities, some of them were: cookie decoration, dance contest, team games, and doing clay from scratch. You could see their happines reflected on their smiles.

 In May, we talked about the importance of the enviroment, since the origins of the earth to the envorimental footprint of the human being among the history. We reflected about what we can do now to decrease each own enviromental footprint and what strategies we can do in our lives and community to protect the enviroment.

Finally, in mid May we celebrated one of the most important events for our organization: the 8th Anual Report, in which we shared our results and growth of 2018 with our donnors. This event also represented the launch of our fundraising campaign to build a new Learning Center, that aims to have better educactional spaces. You can find more about it in our projects on GlobalGiving’s platform.

Thank you for being part of this amazing project, trough your donation you’re making possible that children living in contexts of poverty and violence acces to  development opportunities to bring out the best in them.

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We started this year full of energy, enthuasiasm and arts. Working with integration, safety rules, team work and artistic abilities.

The starting of a new period means to go back to a routine in order to get a work rythim, so the first weeks of the year children and their families remembered the rules we have at the Learning Center, and opening a space of participation they had the opportunity to gave some ideas regarding safety guidelines.

After this important step, our days were focus on developing social abilities trough integration games and activities in wich children could interact between them. The purpose was to help them go back to the routine, build a trusting enviroment and open spaces to strengthen friendship in them, as this contributes to a greater permanence in the program during the year.

Under the premise of learning between equals, children participated in a art project called Empty Bowls, that was guided the whole time by our youngest volunteers. It was a completely new experience for everyone since we use different materials than the usuals. This project was about making from scatch a personalized bowl using clay, and we worked on psicomotor skills, social and creative abilities, helping children to see that everything has a process to get it done.

We had too a special visit from a local leader cardboard Company, that showed them how do they work, their core values and the diverse steps they follow to finish a product. They were very interested on the information and had a lot fun building their own cardboard box.

Finally but not less important, as an organization, this year we will give hugh step, as we started with a fundraiser campaign to build a new learning center that will have wider spaces and more capacity to attend more children and families.

Thank you once more for being part of every new beginnig, you are an important part of this amazing team and the growth we have had among this months. Let’s keep working together to bring out the best in us!

We feel very honour you were part of it all over this year, we recognize that even in the distance one can always be active part of a positive change in the world. It was defenitely a challenging year and that means we are growing.

This last three months weren’t the exception: actions for the prevention of sex abuse, actions for the right to education, visit to international book fair and the closing celebration with children and their families are some of the most outstanding events in the institution.

In October, we focused on developing tools and concepts in children for the prevention of sex abuse with the help of an specialized organization in the topic. It was very important since they live in a context in which they could be vulnerable to multiple situations. With the consent of the families, now they have more habilities to be protected.

Meanwhile in the same month, we oficially opened a group of teenagers with the beneficiaries that are part of our programs but just started higschool this year. This action represents that the content they are learning now is adapted to their current stage of life, and that they’ll be having a special boost for new education opportunities, such as scholarships in recognized universities.

Later on in november, we were invited to paticipate in the International Bookfair that takes place every year in our town. We decide to take the youngest groups to live an amazing learning experience. Fun workshops, theater plays, and a interactive reading section were some of the things they enjoyed, contribuiting to their right to education and play.

Finally, we closed the year with our traditional Closing Celebration with children and their families. This time we gave it a twist by presenting in a creative way some of the important topics they learned during 2018. With 240 children we can say it was a great way to close this period.

Thank you once more for being part of the amazing team that motivate and inspire us to be better. On behalf of all who are on this side of the organization, we wish you Happy Holidays and a great 2019!

See you next year.