By Jana Gottschalk | Project Leader
Dear supporter,
there is fantastic news from the workshops: In November, 31 young people will graduate thanks to your help!
Despite the pandemic and the continued low vaccination rates in Honduras, the training centers have been open again since March, albeit with limited access to comply with all Corona-related regulations. The local staff were able to offer five different training courses: Welding, Carpentry, Cosmetology, Tailoring and Automotive Mechanics. The latter has been offered for the first time this year.
Your donations made it possible to finance these trainings and to offer the new course. Therefore, 31 students of the 6th-9th grade, aged between 13 and 16 years, will be able to complete their training in November with the official certificates, so that the doors to the labor market will be open to them.
We are also very happy that boys as well as girls have participated in all the trainings and especially that the participation of girls in the welding training has increased. At the moment, we are working on preparing materials and premises for training in vehicle painting, which is to be offered from 2022. To make this possible and to secure future operations, we need your continued support.
Thank you for your donation!
10 years PPP
There was also a good reason to celebrate this summer! Pen Paper Peace e.V. celebrated its 10th anniversary and we put on a great online festival. There were concerts, workshops and networking. Among other things, we gave a stage to the winners of the international writing competition that we launched together with the Eckenroth Foundation. The winners, aged 10 to 14, presented their texts on the topic of "borders" and "friendship" and moved us all deeply. The event was a great success and we were able to draw attention to our projects.
We would also like to invite you to register for our newsletter. This way you will receive regular updates on the progress in Honduras. Simply go to www.pen-paper-peace.org and enter your name and e-mail address in the top right-hand corner.
So once again a thousand thanks!
Best regards from Berlin,
Jana and the team of PEN PAPER PEACE
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