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Millenium Development Goals
The target for the
MDG's is to: Ensure that, by 2015, children
everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of
primary schooling. But
Nicaragua faces a very difficult challenge if it is
to meet the targets set in the UN Millennium goals. The government of
Nicaragua prioritizes the repayment of debt above investment in
education. As a result many children end up outside the education
system.
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LEARNING RE-INFORCEMENT CENTRE
To help overcome the lack of educational opportunities for children
from modest backgrounds in León NECAT has set up the Centro de
Reforzamiento Escolar (Learning
Re-inforcement Centre) in the barrio of William Fonseca. By running this
centre
for underprivileged children we are able to have a base which can act
as a model centre for extra mural education. The centre is run by a
qualified teacher and supported by volunteers. Children attend in
three groups of
10 children per group, far less than occurs in state schools and by
focusing on a smaller group we are able to offer more individual
attention, prioritizing the needs of individual children. the children
come along every weekday afternoon, receiving support with their
schoolwork and enjoying other educational activities for which there is
no time or money in the school curriculum.
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Educational Activities
By offering the children a varied
programme of activities we enable the children to get to know their
city and their country, to grow in self esteem and confidence and
build in themselves a sense of their moral worth. During the last
year we have organised educational visits to Granada, Puerto Morazan,
to the Zoo and local visits to the museum of Myths and Legends
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Pictured below, our volunteer Yasmina with two members of the biblioteca |
Pictured below, children reading letters received from Cheney School, Oxford |
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