By Sophie Birkett | Head of Operations, Charitable Trust
Dear Supporter,
The children we work with that attend the toy libraries (ludotecas) come from different social environments and backgrounds within the Yucatan pennisula; the toy libraries were created to offer a safe environment where children can go to play and learn about their rights which empower them to stand after themselves and become better citizens. The toy libraries are free and kids can attend it all day long if they want to. The ladies that run it are women from the community (mothers) that have been hired and trained by Save the Children to be in charge of the ludotecas. They have 9 of them in total in Quintana Roo, and like many NGOs, Save the Children also rely on donations to run.
The funds that we raised this time thanks to your donations, have helped to buy a stereo and a white board that was very much needed by one of the ludoteca we support. It might look like a stereo and a white board are not vital, however, activities such as music and dance, which are a core value on every children’s development; require a stereo and until now, they had been using a couple of small speakers that didn’t allow the children to hear. Also, they had a very old white board for different activities which was broken. Now they can use their new board for their different activities.
Every week they have a topic which can go from children’s rights to different values like solidarity, empathy, environmental education, health and nutrition, etc. They empower these values and topics through different workshops during the day; sometimes the volunteers prepare presentations on a GVI laptop and have the children sitting down around the computer. Therefore, we have given a down payment to buy projector too so that all the children watch the screen which enables better understanding of the topic presented.
I hope you can see that the items will really enhance the children's experience at the ludotecas which are greatly needed.
Thank you for supporting this project.
All the best
GVI Mexico
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