COMMON HOPE BLOG

by Lesbia Marroquín, San Rafael Coordinator I want to share with you an activity that we held last week at school. Through the School Partner Initiative, Education Promoter Ligia Pol organized a contest in reading, writing, and math between the three sections of first grade. Each class had five participants who competed as a team [...]

Common Hope held a training yesterday for the teachers of San Cristobal, one in a series of ten training sessions about reading pedagogy. This particular workshop focused on how to get students excited to read and how to structure reading in the classroom. The trainings are a result of the operational planning teachers conducted last [...]

Last week, Common Hope hosted a meeting of sixth graders from two Antigua partner schools, San Miguel Escobar and Santa Catarina Bobadilla. Students came to our family development center to meet each other and participate in an activity rally. They had begun communicating with each other through letters, and Common Hope’s education promoters set up [...]

The main streets in the village of San Miguel Escobar are cleared, community members have started work again, and school is back in session. Anyone passing through town would be surprised to learn that just six weeks ago the community was consumed by the overwhelming destruction created by tropical storm Agatha. Streets were covered in [...]