“Because our students have less, we must provide more.”

Just this week we started our two-day after-school program in Santiago Zamora. Both Monday and Wednesday afternoons were crowded with kids and they loved it. This program is not just something to do, it is an avenue whereby lives can be enriched.

The enrichment mind-set means fostering intellectual curiosity, emotional engagement, and social bonding. An enriched learning enviornment offers challenging, complex curriculum and instruction, minimizes stressors, boosts participation in physical activity and the arts, ensures that students get good nutrition, and provides students with the support they need to reach high expectations.  -Eric Jensen, “Teaching with Poverty in Mind”

Photos of the Week will show up every week in our Friday posts on Mission Erickson dot com. Our hope is that each weekly POTW helps you to better connect with our ministry in Guatemala. Enjoy.

Kids in Santiago Zamora learning English through the song “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”.