Health and education for children in Chiapas

During the last months of the year, our intervention with early childhood children in Chiapas consisted of recognizing and strengthening protagonist participation strategies.

We carry out sessions in public spaces based on games and significant learning activities, to reinforce fine and gross motor skills, which is important for their age and above all, because many of them do not attend school formally, so they present certain delays. compared to other children of his age.

In the same way, listening to their word and attending to their needs through activities and free play, strengthens their participation and promotes collective leadership, where little by little they recognize themselves as a group and learn to relate to other children their age. .

During this 2022, more than 55 children between the ages of 2 and 6 participated in the educational activities, accompanying families who work in three public markets.

We invite you to follow us on our social networks @melelxojobal and learn much more about our work.

On behalf of the entire Melel Xojobal team, we wish you a Happy New Year 2023, and we also appreciate your constant solidarity for this project. We hope to be able to count on her again this year.

Our best wishes to you and yours.

During this long process of pandemic, indigenous children accompanying working families have suffered the consequences of a political, economic and social system that does not take them into account. One of the most serious consequences is the serious educational gap they are facing, since for two years they have not attended school regularly. 

Melel Xojobal has been present during this time to be able to accompany this school reinforcement process with educational activities through games and exercises in the markets. Thanks to your collaboration we have been able to deliver school supplies and maintain educational sessions.

This school year (August 2022 to July 2023), many children will return to normal face-to-face classes, but face new models of education that they are not familiar with, because most of them did not attend a single day of school in the last two years.

At Melel we are very attentive to continue accompanying the emotional situation that the school load can cause, as well as meeting those who will not return to school for various reasons: family, economic, discouragement, etc.

As of September 2022, we will increase the presence of our work in the markets, to identify those children who do not go to school and offer this support.

We are sure that people like you are interested in the well-being of indigenous children, so we invite you to learn more about our work on our social networks and on our website:

@melelxojobal

www.melelxjobal.org.mx

Your economic and active collaboration in our networks greatly supports making more people aware of the rights situation of working children and motivating them to join our cause.