February 13th update. Medical team arrives.

Children are photographed for medical records

Cesy has a newly painted classroom.

Names, photos, dates on med forms for today's clinic.

Doctors from Guatemala

Medical team of volunteers

February 12th 2020 update. Donated shoes and glasses arrive.

Shoes donated from Canada and transported by Sudan 

 Mateo and his wife Anne-Marie  who has arrived from Canada  sort shoes.

Rachelle fitting shoes

 Donated shoes arrive for each student 

We offered glasses fo some 50 residents who were very happy to come to try on various pairs.

The farmers wanted to be able to see better in the fields and read seed packets, 

  The women wanted to be able to sew, thread a needle, sort their various coloured threads for their weaving projects and read. Farmers are able to read. 

 All were most appreciative for the opportunity to receive such an important gift of better sight.

February 7th 2020 update

Fun in the yard

 Dance

Elma is my name, I am 3 years old.

 I can read by myself.

 Pictures for the new "egg a day" program.

I like books.

 Colouring for "egg day"

Hey, now I know how to play dominoes.

I do this puzzle by myself

February 4th 2020 update. Supplies arrive.

Sheila and Rachellle go through items shipped from Canada to SUDEN     

 Rachelle from Ottawa is volunteering at Saludos Ninos now.

 Bookcases are now painted

Wall is painted

Rachelle loves those hugs.

Ride in pickup down thew mountain-freedom

January 29th 2020 update

Rosario working with Aracely on the new computer.

Kids match their name to the first letter of their name on the alphabet chart as they sign in each day for class.

Septic deposit for grey water completed.

 Nancy happy to help her mum in the kitchen

January 25th 2020 update. New financial partners. New egg a day program.

We are pleased  to  announce "Mayan Partners" will take over the salaries for the teachers and cook.

This will  take pressure off Saludos Ninos to find all the money each year. 

      Work is underway to dig a reservoir for the kitchen water runoff. It had to be 16 feet deep,so extra care was taken yesterday to keep the kids inside so none of them fell into the hole. Some of the dirt is being used to level out the yard, but most was carted away to make room for the layers of sand needed to filter the grey water.

reservoir for grey water from kitchen

Leveling back yard

    Justin and Michelle , are here for 2 more weeks. Justin will help me do a financial statement 

on line and Michell is taking pictures, helping the kids in the classroom and is keen to fund a program called "an egg a day". Our kids will be given an egg a day per week to help improve their protein levels. Luckily,

friends of Ann and Kent have just begun an egg operation on the very next piece of property up from Saludos NINOS, so there is our egg source. It certainly could not be any CLOSER!! 

Our Saludos Ninos board members , Ann and Kent from CALIFORNIA were just here for 5 days 

which was very nice as they have good Spanish so we got many things sorted out .

A medical clinic is being organized for Feb 11 here a visiting doctor will examine all our kids and members of their family who need to be seen. Meds will be made available to those who need them.

       The bookcases need to be painted in each classroom and workers are in this Saturday to do just

 that. Then perhaps the next weekend, the interior of the classes will be painted and some exterior,too.

January 18th 2020 update

Today, we held a meeting with all the teachers, plus Ann and Kent, Paty and Rosario, Sheila and Brian to discuss program changes for this year during  Delores' absence and the pending birth of Rosario's child in early March. We learned about the new Magical Aula program  and were thrilled to see the teachers' enthusiasm to implement this curriculum.We also  began to organise  events like the medical clinic and water filter workshop, distribution of filters for new families, clothing and shoes for those in need and plans for general maintenance of the property and classrooms. A wonderful beginning to a new year.

Showing the different work centres 

     The teachers are thrilled to use the Magical Classroom materials. This is the second day of CLASS!

Two older kids demonstrate the dance moves shown on the screen. The kids love the music videos they work with. The classrooms were organized into various "centres". This year the kids are from 2 to 5 years old, which allows much more learning to take place with a more homogeneous  group.