By Anelia Fernandes | Project Leader
Dear supporters and friends,
Almost three months have passed from our previous progress report and we wish to provide an update on the latest developments in our endeavors to invite traditionally deprived communities to participate in scientific enquiries and knowledge.
In the month of May, we hosted a visit of 78 second-graders from the depopulating town of Vidin in Northwestern Bulgaria. When asked what they liked most, an avalanche of answers ensued: earthquakes, space department, everything…. The teachers shared their plans to start project-based cycle integrating educational content from Physics, Astronomy, Math, addressing planets, solar system, galaxies, constellations, and the experience in Muzeiko would serve as inspiration. And the school would strive to find resources for more workshops in the children’s museum. However, once again, we had to acknowledge the bitter fact that there was a considerable gap between Sofia and the countryside in terms of learning opportunities and financial means.
Thereby, guided by the vision that education is to be empowering and inclusive for all, we launched a Muzeiko@School program aimed to reach out to children who cannot afford to visit Muzeiko and whose schools find it difficult to organize a field trip because of parents/guardians’ permission and bureaucratic formalities. This initiative also seeks to address children from social care services/ institutions who are deprived of parental care and/or socially and pedagogically neglected.
In these pursuits, we contacted CONCORDIA Foundation, which works with children aged 5-18 years and families from marginalized groups living in poverty, with mild mental and/ or physical disabilities, and those who have dropped out of the education system. We agreed to conduct a science show with a workshop in one of their centers, as well as to host a visit to Muzeiko for the children residing in another residential facility.
Hopefully, thanks to your good and generous hearts, our next project report will bring good news and share positive experience from our work with CONCORDIA’s children.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude for your donations and wish you sparkling summer mood with one of our favorite quotes from the Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman:
“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
Muzeiko team
By Anelia Fernandes | Project Leader
By Albena Koleva | Project leader
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