Gender Equality Guatemala Project #12451

Lets Be Ready

by Lets Be Ready

Project Report | Sep 10, 2024
Training is important to keep improving education

By Margarita Bejarano | Teacher

Ideas about reading and writing

“Education does not change the world, it changes the people who are going to change the world” (Paulo Freire).

Hello everyone,

It is a pleasure to greet you and write to you through this medium. Incredibly, we are less than two months away from the end of the school year. To be honest, I haven't felt at what point so much time has passed. However, I am very happy for the accomplishments and activities we have done with our children and teachers to continue to change their future.

We recently had our teacher training with the entire “Let's be Ready” group. Together with the director: Sarita, we organized a very different workshop from the previous ones; with the objective of not burdening our teachers too much with the topics and to do something different and not repetitive.

We continued to update ourselves on the new planning from the Ministry of Education (CNB), clarifying many of the doubts we still had. Thanks to the research of Seño Roselia, who presented this part, we have a better understanding of how to plan our classes.

Now that we are about to finish the school year, we also shared simple ideas made with recyclable material on “art”, “reading and writing”. Each teacher made a presentation of two to three ideas of what they have done or found to do at the end of the year. Most of them were very creative and showed us new ideas.

Another part that I really liked was the “teacher interview”; each teacher sent us a question about what they wanted to know about other teachers, either about their classroom activities or about their life in general. Although most of the questions had to do with classroom activities, there were a few that helped us find out how the teachers were doing, how they were feeling. This helped us to bond more as a group and to keep an eye out for some who we know are not having a good time. I feel that we are like a family.

Another important topic was the “school gardens”. This year, we have a person assigned to work the gardens in each of our communities. In this workshop, she gave us a detailed explanation of why they are important and what we can do to make them work in the classroom. As we are starting again with this program, it has worked in some communities and unfortunately not in others: because we do not have a decent space. However, we are already looking for new ways to see if we can still implement it.

Overall, I can say that the workshop was very successful. We hope that everything we presented and saw during the training will help the teachers to finish the year with very good results.

At the moment, we are preparing for the activities of September 15, which is the date of independence in our country; but in the next report we will have more information about this...

Thank you for your contribution and support, if it were not for you our children would not be able to excel, GOD BLESS YOU! Receive a warm hug from us.

Ideas about art

The creativity of our teachers is evident

Ideas with tree leaves

Irma and Yessica work in the Tecpan area

They are Elba, Glenda, Rosario, Alicia and Roselia

Eli, Joseline, Delsy, Maria, Angelica and Lidia

Edvin, Sandra, Blanca and Lilian

Margarita and Delsy who work in Antigua

Let's be Ready Team

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Jun 18, 2024
Take care of the planet, don't destroy it!

By Margarita Bejarano | Teacher

Earth Day hike

It is a pleasure to greet you again, thank you always for the support you give us; there is no doubt that you are part of the change that our children need for their future.

As you know during the months of April and June, we celebrate "Earth Day and Environment Day"; with the aim of raising awareness of the damage we do to the planet with pollution and to do activities to take care of it, we dedicate enough time to investigate, learn and recycle. And this year was no exception, each of our teachers did a different activity to teach them the importance of the planet for human beings.

Some of us took a walk with posters to remind people in our community of practical ways to contribute to taking care of the Earth; for example, by not littering, saving water and electricity, planting trees and recycling at home. Others made handicrafts using tree leaves, stones, sticks, etc.

These activities have helped us to instill in our children the importance of taking care of everything around them and respecting the Earth, which is our home.

This year, we obtained support to make school gardens in the different communities where we are located. It has been easy in the areas where there are gardens, because some parents have made their plot available to do so. However, there are places where it has not been possible to do it; therefore, we are working with planters. Thanks to the help of Elizabet, who is in charge of visiting the communities and making their respective vegetable gardens, there are schools that are already planting for the second time. Some of them have already made a vegetable salad with what they harvested.

The children and parents are very happy with this activity, because in addition to reinforcing many subjects, we are teaching the children to be responsible and to take care of their own crops. Now that winter has begun in our country, we hope to harvest even more.

Amazingly, we are about to finish the sixth month of the year and we still have a lot to do with our children. Therefore, next month we will have our second training with the teachers; which we hope will be a success with that of the beginning of the year. We are trying to incorporate new topics and continue to learn from the skills we have. We look forward to reporting more in our next report.

As always, it is a pleasure to write to you and tell you about our progress and activities; many thanks to all our donors! Your contribution is life for our program. Please continue to support us so that we can continue to improve the future of our children...

Awareness messages

Collecting garbage for recycling

Preparing the land for planting

Obtaining planting results

Some children planted in flower pots

These were the results

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Apr 1, 2024
"Teaching from the heart"

By Margarita Bejarano | Teacher

"The teaching that leaves a mark is not the one that is done from head to head, but from heart to heart" (Howard G. Hendricks).

I am happy to greet all our sponsors, it is a pleasure to be able to share again our activities and highlights with our children.

Despite unforeseen events and difficulties, we managed to start a new year. All our teachers are working in their respective centers and with the required number of students. This year, we have some schools that have more children, due to the overpopulation of students in the communities and because of how famous the program has become.

Thanks to the workshop we had in January, we are applying the different ideas to give better stimulation to our little ones. Since we have 4 year olds, we must give them adequate fine motor stimulation to develop their skills to the maximum. An expert teacher in this is Roselia Canux, who works in the community of Patzicía in one of its villages. Thanks to her good work and the follow-up she has given to those who continue in the program during the preschool stage, she has achieved that their progress is noticeable in the first grade of primary school.

We worked on two weeks of adaptation and the general topics for these first months, such as: colors, lines, rules of coexistence, weather, identification and tracing of their name, among others. Also, we are doing the assigned activities of the "Star Books" that give us a preview of the topics we will see during the year.

This year, we will implement "school gardens" again, more formally. Now, we have the help of Elizabeth, who will be in charge of helping us to make our own garden together with the children, to continue learning different topics and help them to be more independent. Also, due to the different changes in the economy, we are helping them to find solutions to have what they need at home.

Thanks to the help of people with a big heart, we were able to obtain support for the schools that needed it for this year. However, we still need your contributions to continue helping these communities. Thank you so much to those of you who are already doing this, you can't imagine how essential it has been.

Please continue to support us with your contributions so we can continue to improve the future of our children.

Greetings to all our readers and donors, I look forward to writing new developments in our next report...

Fine Motor Skills

Learning to cut

Outline of your name

Sequence with the "Brown Bear" book

Roselia Canux and her children

The first lettuces are already coming out

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