By Veronica Taveras | Project Director
REPORT SEPT - DEC. 2024
THE BIENVENIDO PROJECT - FUNFONAVI 2006-2024; 18TH ANNIVERSARY OF SERVICE, ENSURING EDUCATION, NUTRITION, AND SOCIAL-SPIRITUAL VALUES TRAINING FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN THE BIENVENIDO COMMUNITY, MANOGUAYABO RD, WHO LIVE IN EXTREME POVERTY, IN ORDER TO BUILD A CULTURE OF PEACE.
DECEMBER
As in many villages around the world, we celebrate Christmas, an event that brings families and friends together to ease the needs of the most vulnerable, showing them a little love and empathy, being a voice for those who have none, and making them a little happier. With your support, we gave a GOOD NIGHT to more than 500 people, offering meals, fruits, and treats, where each child is the prince of the night.
TRIAD CHURCH sent a group of volunteers from North Carolina, USA, to celebrate a collective birthday with more than 150 children from the FUNFONAVI family. It was a very meaningful day for every participant, where each one received a gift, candy, cake, hot dogs, sodas, and much more!
The JOAS EDUCATIONAL CENTER - FUNFONAVI provided a comfortable space for the little ones, where they attended school in their pajamas, enjoyed a seasonal breakfast, took photos, and shared time with teachers and students. After all, December is a time for celebration and sharing!
Teaching children to share their snacks and making others feel special will help leave a better world than the one we were born into. Children hug, forgive, and care for each other. At the end of the first school semester, we want every child to feel integrated, valued, and loved in the great FUNFONAVI family.
NOVEMBER
The Bienvenido Project and the Bendición Network joined forces to invite the beneficiary families to celebrate FAMILY DAY, a day of equality, love, dynamic service, and family groups attending the activity. The guests enjoyed cotton candy, pizza, sodas, and a beautiful children's show where everyone danced, sang, and learned about family values such as love, equality, and service. We also ate pizza, sodas, and sweets.
OCTOBER
THE VIDA FOUNDATION FOR BIENVENIDO AND NEIGHBOUR, SWITZERLAND, donated over four hundred t-shirts to the beneficiaries of the Bienvenido community. Once again, The Bienvenido Project invited the youth to a NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS, where teachers, along with part of the FUNFONAVI team, gathered them for a very special time, teaching them how to love themselves, promoting non-violence, and how to take care of their bodies and minds in a society that is deteriorating more and more each day. Each champion received a toast and a NEIGHBOUR t-shirt!
THE AULA HOPE FOUNDATION FROM ASHTON SCHOOL brought a group of students to The Bienvenido Project to teach Basic and Secondary beneficiaries values of empathy and healthy coexistence through games. The Hope Foundation students also painted the children's faces and brought raw food for the feeding program.
SEPTEMBER
Due to the ongoing need in the Bienvenido community, home to over 20,000 people, The Bienvenido Project FUNFONAVI sponsors over 140 students through scholarships at the Initial, Basic, Secondary, University, English, and Music levels to ensure high-quality and competitive education in a sadly poor and needy society. This situation is a result of the lack of schools and opportunities for intellectual growth.
We started a reading and writing reinforcement program to help students reach the potential required at each grade level.
BENEFICIARIES: 15,038
By Veronica Taveras | Project Director
By Veronica Taveras | Project Leader
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