Empower Highly Outcast Children and Their Families

Childhood is one of the most important stages in a person´s life, this is the age in which we learn our vision of ourselves and the world, this is the age were the bases are being settled for our personal development, but most important this is the age were dreams are being born. That’s why this trimester, to remember that they are an important key to our society’s future, we celebrated Children´s day, starting with a party organized by pedagogy students in which they participated in fun games and activities, it was and environment full of joy. For some of them it was the first time celebrating this day.

Another way we celebrated, was through our project “Change agents 2030”, that consisted mainly that the teenagers' group had to create social projects aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals to impact the community, developing a sense of change agents with the help of a mentor. The objective of this activity was to empower them to act in favor of the neighborhood they live in, using simple and effective actions, applying the abilities they developed at Mayama. As a result we got 7 projects focus on environment, social development and peace.

For last but no less important, we culminated with very great news. As you might remember at the beginning of this year we welcomed a new generation of children in Mayama, some of them live in poverty and some others in extreme poverty, sometimes this means they don’t go to school because they are not even officially registered. So during these three months we gave ourselves the work to help the first family of this generation to register their children so they could have access to one of the most important human rights: Identity. Having access to this right opens the door to many others, such as education and health services.

Working with children can be challenging but is also the most satisfying job, seeing them grow, develop and discovering the world is a new opportunity to learn with them and to let our inner child be. This couldn’t be possible without your support, it has been an elemental key to build good memories in their lives; you are an important part of Mayama.

¡Let’s keep celebrating the beauty of childhood bringing out the best in us!