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Nurturing Nutrition in Moms and Kids

10/30/2017

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Rebeca Sosof, the Maternal Child Health Program Assistant, teaches the beneficiary mother about nutritional needs and benefits.
One by one, with children in hand, mothers stepped into the Pueblo a Pueblo office in Santiago Atitlan to attend the monthly workshop. Our Maternal Child Health Project aims to provide support to mothers and their children during their most vulnerable periods of pregnancy and early childhood, until five years old. This support includes pre- and post- natal care, making health services more accessible.  Mothers also learn a lot from our monthly educational workshops on topics like women’s empowerment; reproductive rights; and, this month’s topic, the importance of proper nutrition for their family’s well-being.
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The mothers made rice patties, beet salad and beet lemonade.
This is an especially important topic for mothers who live in the Department of Solola, where 66% of children under age five suffer from chronic malnutrition.* Chronic malnutrition during childhood can not only lead to infant mortality, but the effects are seen over the long term -- effects like stunting, delay of cognitive development, and poor school performance.

​Vilma Mendoza Sosof, Manager of the Maternal Child Health Project at Pueblo a Pueblo, says that malnutrition is one of the biggest health issues; it stems from a lot of factors. One of the biggest reasons is “lack of economic resources” Vilma said. “But it’s also a lack of knowledge on what proper nutrition is and how to take advantage of foods to get the most benefit from them,” she explained. The nutrition workshop focused on some of these factors by using local ingredients to make low-cost rice patties with a beet salad -- which were rich in calcium, vitamin A and vitamin C -- and beet lemonade, which was delicious and which the kids were able to help make!


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The children involved in the program helped make delicious beet lemonade!
We hope that the beneficiary mothers use the skills and information from the workshops, feel empowered to improve their family's health through nutrition and form healthy eating habits for their families. Vilma says that “by using local and common ingredients we want to show that eating healthy doesn’t require fancy ingredients or complicated cooking instructions, it’s easy to turn your leftovers into a new and nutritious meal that the kids will enjoy.”

*Guatemala National Institute of Statistics (2017)
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What are you doing in tutoring today?

10/2/2017

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Isabela and Magdalena spend time after school to practice reading.
Although the the Guatemalan school year is winding down and in three weeks students will be on vacation, our Primary Education Scholarship (PES) Project beneficiary students are still working hard and attending tutoring lessons after school.

As you may remember from our
previous blog post about our tutoring services, tutoring lessons are led by Isabela Chichom, our Project Tutor. She offers individualized attention to students struggling in -Spanish language and literacy, math, and science.


​“We try to make it fun for them, we play math games, language games, we go outside and teach them different studying techniques,” Isabella says.

This week we asked a few of our PES students at Chukmuk Primary School:

What are you doing in tutoring today?
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Magdalena struggles with reading comprehension, so she spends an hour after school reading and discussing
Name: Magdalena
Grade: 4
Favorite subject: “Math because she prides herself on “being really good at multiplication.”

​Today in tutoring: “I’m going to practice reading comprehension in Spanish. I get confused a lot when I’m reading, so I’m going to practice reading out loud and talking about what I read with Ms. Isabela.“
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Eliseo practices his penmanship and reading comprehension in Spanish
Name: Eliseo
Grade: 2

Favorite subject: Math “I just really like math.”


Today in tutoring: “My handwriting is a little hard to read, so I’’m practicing my letters and then I’m going to practice reading what I wrote in Spanish.”

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Rosa is learning about the letter Z
Name: Rosa
Grade: 1

Favorite subject: Math “I like learning numbers.”


Today in tutoring: “I’ve been going through the alphabet and today I’m practicing the letter Z. After I color it, I will circle all the Zs I find on the page.”
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David work on his math homework after school
Name: David
Grade: 2
Favorite subject: Math “the rules don’t change that much so it is easy to remember.”

Today in tutoring: “I have homework today, so I’m going to work on my addition worksheet.”​
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Maria Isabel rewrites her notes and makes new charts for her information
Name: Maria Isabel
Grade: 5

Favorite subject: Math “It’s really easy for me to understand, I really don’t like Art class though.”


Today in tutoring: “In Biology class we’re learning about the five kingdoms of life. I’m going to go over my notes with Ms. Isabel and try to make charts that make more sense than the book.”



The goal of the Primary Education Scholarship Project is to help students succeed in the classroom. Sometimes that means working with and encouraging kids after school.

​“A lot of kids realize, halfway through the tutoring session, that they are actually able to learn and understand the material, and then they are more confident in class,” Isabela explained.



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