Special exciting feature: la escuelita movíl!

This week we are starting a monthly training with a new partner, Mobile School, a Belgium organisation which works with NGOs worldwide providing them with a tool, The Mobile School, that seeks through its educational materials to strengthen children’s self esteem, self-worth, and therefore personal growth. DS&H, and notably our joint project with Fe y Alegría, Cuéntamelo Todo, has been selected to bring to life its 30^th school!

On Monday, Rob and Antonia arrived in Quito respectively from Belgium and Venezuela to run us through this innovative organisation and socialise us with its wonderfully didactic tool that will become a pillar to our forthcoming sessions on the Plaza. Now beyond weighing some odd 420kgs and measuring over 1m50 long (!), this educational tool designed for street work holds 250 panels that can be undone, dismantled to be rejoined and assembled according to the topic of the day...Over 10 themes ranging from alphabetization, mathematics to therapeutic games and health issues will hence be available for the kids to interact with. There is also space for the creative ones of our Cuéntamelo Todo team to develop other panels to cover new localized themes...

As part of this partnership, Cuéntamelo Todo will be working more extensively in the street so we are currently applying to the local authorities for longer hours and an additional day that will take our presence on the Plaza up to over 10 hours weekly! Over the next month, Rob & Antonia will take us through all types of themes & issues that will prepare us resort to these tools imaginatively and creatively to best provide our eclectic bunch of kids with the soundest space to play, learn, develop and grow as they are entitled to.

We’ll keep you posted on this learning curve...