Olga's Quarterly Report April-June 2020
Livingston School Project
Work Performed
The TEACH organization has promoted education in various Livingston communities and has been a staunch partner of the Maya Qeqchi Cultural Center Association in ensuring the success of its pursuits. The beneficiary schools have been the Lagunita Salvador Coeducational Rural Official School and the Creek Cuatro Cayos Official School.
Transportation project for the children of Baarra Sanabria.
Nutrition Project for the Creek Cuatro Cayos school.
Scholarships for the first three young graduates of the Lagunita and Ensenada Puntarenas Village schools.
Purpose:
Strengthen and promote primary and secondary education for children wishing to improve themselves academically.
School Year 2020
April, May, and June of this school year have been difficult months because of the covid-19 pandemic that has affected the entire world.
In Guatemala it has affected public health, employment, education, and the economy. The quarantine has brought everything to a halt, just as it has done in other countries around the world.
Our children’s education and our country’s schools have suffered because of the insufficiency of technological services.
Nonetheless, our teachers--Yolanda Xi and Luis Felipe Caal--have managed to perform their teaching duties and ensured our children’s progress. They made it possible for their students to continue learning at home.
The following pictures show what they have been able to achieve with their students.
Luis Felipe Caal, the Creek Cuatro Cayos teacher, pays weekly visits to the school in order to distribute homework to his students and urges their parents to support their children in completing their homework so that he can review it every other week.
Yolanda Xi, the Lagunita School teacher, distributes learning guides and notebooks to students so that they may use them at home with their parents’ support. She, too, visits the school and reviews the homework every other week.
Fighting the pandemic, having to make changes from month to month, and continuing to teach the children in the communities has been a great challenge.
Nutrition at the Creek Cuatro Cayos School
The nutrition project has been working as follows:
Because of all the changes required by the covid-19 pandemic, students and their families have been staying home and the economy has contracted.
For that reason, it has become necessary to deliver the school meals to the students’ parents.
Vitamins and vermifuges intended to supplement the body’s natural defenses have also been entrusted to the parents
Vitamins and vermifuges being delivered to parents. This woman has five children in the school.
Parents are grateful for the support provided to the students and are also grateful to the teachers for their efforts to care for their children despite the restrictions imposed by the government.
The Guatemalan government has already started reopening the economy but has not yet determined if students will return to school.