This is my second week in Argentina, collaborating with Centro Jesus María, for the education of childreen and adolescents from 3 up to 15 years old. I'm here with María and Fran, two other volunteers of Fundación Telefónica.
The center we work in is in Barrio Nueva Alianza, Tres Isletas, town located in Chaco, drought and quite depressed area located in north Argentina.
The main focus of this center is giving complementary education, in add of the governamental schools and colleges. People come to the center in the morning or in the afternoon, depending of the scheduling of their regular classes.
At lunch time food is distributed for the family and there is a refectory for the childreen.
In Barrio Nueva Alianza water and food are scarce resources, people live in bad conditions, childreen are dirty, quite aggressive and not used to learn anything.
The work I do consists in helping local teachers in differents tasks: teaching in classes of 15-20 childreen for basic education and tutoring adolescents in their college tasks in the library. In add of it we make differents workshops from 5.30pm: english, dance, handicrafts, sport.
Some of the childreen emerge and I wish they will be the models for the rest of their classmates.
More about this, in spanish:
http://blogvoluntarios.telefonica.es/argentina/
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