Fall into Thankfulness with our Scholarship Students!
Alright we have heard the cries and consider them answered! Your next update about our Scholarship Students and CdA is right here! Before we launch into our #GivingTuesday for 2023 (November 28th, 2023)
I want to start off this blog post by updating everyone on how our Knowledge is Power Program is doing! This year, a new methodology was applied to give more prominence to our Knowledge is Power Program and to make students in the last years of their elementary school education aware of it’s benefits and obligations. Our younger scholarship students put on this workshop through which they presented what the scholarship program has meant to them, the benefits it has brought them, and what they have been able to achieve by being part of it. We hope that because of this presentation there we will have more applications to our scholarship program!
Gabriela Sarai and Francisco Escobar were responsible for the September workshop. They utilized their own experience through the scholarship program to provide other students with tools and techniques to enrich their own knowledge and achieve more academically! In August, our psychologist, Rocio Lopez, hosted a workshop on Leadership and Teamwork. Through this workshop, students participated in activities to help implement what they have learned about leadership and themselves throughout the year.
With the growth of our Knowledge is Power Program comes the growth of our Farming for the Future Program!
The general assembly of our ever-growing Farming for the Future Program took place in August this year with 30 families attending. It’s a meeting where all beneficiary families had the opportunity to meet with Eliseo Alvarado, the business leader of the municipality of San Rafael Obrajuelo. Alvarado, motivated through his own experience, congratulated the effort and achievements that each family has achieved, and spoke about the inspiration of these families on being actors of their own development. Mr. Alvarado’s presence consists of working on motivation through personal experiences that others have had in their communities. We are so grateful he was able to join us and speak to the members of Farming for the Future.
He’s not the only one we’re grateful for though! Darwin Chinchilla, a producer of Pitahaya in the department of Ahuachapan, came to speak to the Farming for the Future families about his experience in this fruit production. The goal of this visit was for the families to learn more about the production process, handling, benefits and the different varieties of this fruit!
