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of Agenda SOS
December
24, 2019: The annual Christmas Party marks the end of our school
year. Christmas holiday, final term grades, moving on from our
informal school to State education, farewell to friends, start
of the "Summer break". We have also
finally found a solution to our quest to provide Pedrito
with a Braille enabled laptop (it is even now Amazoning its
ay to Peru as we write this).
December
7, 2019: This is the time of year when our last term is winding
down. Also the month of graduations, children who have been
with us for their entire educational experience (because they
were too old to start in first grade in a regular school). Part
of graduation is to receive a certificate from the Ministry
of Education indicating the level of skills we have helped them
achieve. Our next report will cover their
Christmas party - which they will celebrate with us in the next
few days.
November
2019: Along with the learn-a-day classroom activities, we have
given the children in our little school in Peru a month of extra
curricular activities and events. Here is a pot pourri of some.
October
2019: Each month our children, with help from their much-loved
teacher, Patricia, make a three-part journal. One part might
include International, national or local news. Another, a review
of a recent event they were in. Finally a recipe or 'how-to'
section. It is published on the class bulletin board during
all of the following month. Click below for current edition.
September
2019: When a street kid, whose parents are not available, finds
her Grandmother she
has a new way to get off the street, and if he finds his Aunt
or Uncle: same story. We actively
search for extended family members, and then do what we can
to help develope a surrogate
relationship. When this works it is beautiful to behold.
Winter
is about to give way to Autumn in South America. This means
there will be more days when sports and projects can be held
in our garden and other out-of-doors venues. In the meantime
indoor exercises, and projects are all the rage,
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August 2019: Our School year trundles on laced with special projects
and fun diversions:
Kids throw surprise party
on popular teacher's birthday
Art and Gardening
Sports and physical exercise
We do almost no fund raising.
Have tried from time to time
but only succeeded when
others kindly did it for us.
By now they are all retired.
For two years we have kept
going by sharing the pensions
of our two founders. So, while
we no longer do fundraising,
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July 2019: Pedro, using Brail, keeps up with a sighted class.
We are searching for &
asking for Brail Books (even a Brail enabled laptop
- new or used) for our bright, lovable blind student,
Pedro. If you have (or have access to) any Brail teaching
or reading material or devices (in Spanish) please
do contact us. Thank you.
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June 2019: Students: Out for sports day. Community: In for meeting
& help with micro biz.
Winter
ended last month and Springtime in the Southern Hemisphere is
in full blossom. Days in the Trujillo school are occupied with
classroom courses, sports and tidying up their little garden.
August
2018:
April
2018:
Two
Schools operating
We had
expected to open this school term with only one facility remaining
open in Peru. We and the children had to flee our second school
leaving it to the elements and vandals at the height of last
year's flooding.
It made us all sad. Worse was to follow: we ended 2017 in debt.
Had no funds to build, buy or furnish a second school. For the
first time in the project's nearly two decade history our costs
had exceeded what we could raise from donors or cover on our
own.
All was no lost however. A ray of sunshine arrived. Mostly
through Charo's efforts we managed to squeeze both schools into
our surviving Alto Trujillo structure.
Now they are both ticking over delightfully in the refurbished
original school house.
May the learning continue... And now
to raise some funds.
within
one school house
.January
2018:
Eighty
percent of our students go from our little school to continued
formation in the national educational system.
Some of our students, however, were recruited at an age too
old for us to be able to educate to the level of students their
ages who have been in school all the years ours were not. These
we teach for +/- two years: graduate with a Gov't. approved
diploma listing all their skills.CLICK
The rest of our students (those not graduating) Charo matriculated
in Public school # 02.2018. Their new professor has told Charo,
they are "best prepared of all her students".
