Transform Education for 90 Children in El Salvador

Just as your financial support allows access to a quality education in this remote area of El Salvador, a quantitative leap in the process occurs as partners join in and share their expertise with the students. Each exchange opens our horizons and brings a new part of the world to our students and to our school, Amún Shéa.

We recently had three interns from the University of Michigan chapter of GlobeMed sharing six weeks of their summer break to assist with our Nutrition program. They supplied resources, time and expertise for our vegetable growing project, our Tilapia fish farming and our hygiene program. Katya, Haben and Darci became part of our community and to some degree, we became part of theirs.

Always great to have MoverMoms, from the DC area coming to share with us. A lot of fun and games, and some serious cooking classes.

NOMAD is a Portuguese organization that returns several times a years, bearing fun and gifts. The last group supplied us with musical instruments, including violins. Joanne from England was in the area, so she stopped by and gave some classes on the new violins.

Gernot is a German computer/communication businessman who upon hearing about Amún Shéa decided to bring equipment and give a week-long training course to our students.

Each one of these contacts, and other like them, greatly enrich our educational program. Their support, coupled with your continued financial support makes our goal of a quality education into a reality.

We are counting on you, and a big THANK YOU!

We believe that education must assume responsibility for local economic growth and social health. Education benefits the community not only by developing well-prepared citizens for the future, but through the learning process itself, which has positive impact on present-day challenges.

Many understand the importance of linking education to local settings or surroundings, but we go one step further: we maintain that real learning must not and does not stop at observation, but must include interaction.

Simply put, we learn by doing and doing the activity for real.

Your support to this program is changing the very concept of education and development in northern Morazán. We sincerely thank you for your support and would further help us by spreading the word to your friends and family.

Thank you

Links:

• More detail with regard to shifting control to students

Karina, Kelly, Jakeline and Gerson depend on scholarships to be a part of the Amún Shéa educational program. Just knowing the funds will be available to cover their expenses brings a sense of relief that allows them to concentrate on the work and responsibility their learning program requires. You see, each student has their own unique study plan, built around their particular interests and gifts.

The innovative problem based curriculum, created by and implemented at Amún Shéa, allows students to explore areas of concern that draw their interest.  They are then free to investigate any and all information regarding it and propose solutions for that particular concern. In this sense, the program is life-changing, not just for the students enrolled in school, but for their families and the communities that benefit  from the solutions.

Funding our scholarship program brings a double benefit. Not only in guaranteeing program access to students, but in supporting the design/build of an educational program that can be replicated in areas of similar socioeconomic conditions.

Karina, Kelly, Jakeline, Gerson and the Amún Shéa community thank you for your generosity in supporting our scholarship program. Please ask your family, friends and acquaintances to join in so that we can include other students with great ideas and initiative.

Links:

• English version of recent news column on Amun Shea