Help 455 At-Risk Children in Mexico Stay in School

We want to share you the closure of one of the programs implemented in EDUCA schools. This is “Aflatoun, Social and Financial Education for Children”. Which aims to inspire children and teenagers to empowered social and economically to be agents of change in their lives and for a more equitable world. The learning methodology is child-centered participatory, learning - making, games and activities.

 Our activities this school year were:

1. Annual Training for teachers: in order to review the key elements of the program as well as new strategies and techniques work in the classroom. In this activity participated 33 teachers who teach underprivileged children.

2. Visit the Interactive Museum of Economics: where issues such as decision making distinction of needs and wants, reasoned consumption and resource management worked. This activity benefited 107 poor children and 9 teachers.

3. Visits to banks: Children learned about the activities and operations of banks and the children's services they offer. This activity benefited 86 children and 7 teachers.

4. Week of Culture and care for the environment: the children performed educational activities about recycling, visited an urban vegetable garden, participated in a workshop dealing transplantation seeds and learned about the life cycle of bees and their impact at life on our planet. We benefit to 1206 children and 46 teachers.

5. Olympics Aflatoun: On April 19 we hosted the first Olympics of the Educa-Aflatoun Network to create a space for conviviality, fun and healthy competition, in which teamwork and effort by the children resulted a great experience. 500 children participated, 400 parents and 30 teachers family.

6. Financial inclusion workshops: These workshops work issues as: the importance of saving natural and financial resources. We transmit to children with stories that reflect on the meaning of Recycling, Reuse and Recycle in everyday life, and family and individual financial planning. 1180 children participated.

The Aflatoun program has already been implemented in EDUCA for more than six years, thanks to you and your donations we can provide continuity and help more children.

The current situation in Mexico and the world, it is important that children can be empowered socially and economically to be agents of change in their lives and for a more equitable 

With your help we achieve to install a School Playground, to develop skills for life and to reinforce academic learning though play activities in space designed for the EDUCA Network schools.

This Playground benefits 279 needy children and 7 teachers.

This area has a library with interactibos books and teaching materials that bring children to science.

We hope that we can open more areas like this during this year. Interaction with areas like this, it is essential for the development of children EDUCA Foundation benefit. This will give them the possibility of a better future.

Thank you very much for your support !!!

None of this would be possible without your donation.