Help 40 Guatemalan children unlock their potential

We hope this update finds you well. When we first conceptualized this project we envisioned leisurely game afternoons with groups of disadvantaged children in our community. Then the coronavirus pandemic erupted and changed the world as we know it. Since the coronavirus outbreak started more than 40,000 Guatemalan children have abandoned their studies. Many of these children live in the communities we work in. For those students who have remained in school, their education these past few months has been limited to packages of worksheets sent home from the schools. Once we saw the devastating effects the pandemic is having on children's education we began to seek training in Montessori education and we are currently developing learning modules in the style of a traveling hands on children's museum in an attempt to enrich children's learning and to help fill in the gaps the coronavirus has left. The funds you provided are being used to develop our first module, a science based exploration of the universe pictured in the photos in this update. Through this module, students will learn about the size of the universe; the order, appearance and sizes of the planets; the moon cycles, how craters are formed; some constellations and the basic steps of a scientific experiment. All while having fun! We hope to reach hundreds of children with each module and have plans for additional modules in areas such as the major organ systems and their organs, mathematics, birds, sea animals, landmarks of the world and more! To continue supporting this program or to recommend it to a friend, please click on the link below:

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/play-it-forward-guatemala/

As always thank you for being a part of this great project!

Best wishes