Promoting Education for Indigenous Girls in Mexico

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Summary

This project seeks to create a model that promotes the right to primary education with a gender perspective in an indigenous community school in Mexico. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Gonogochi, a raramuri indigenous community in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico, is marked by extreme poverty, high illiteracy and dropout rates (especially among girls); rising levels of violence and drug use; and an increasing loss of indigenous identity. For this reason, this project aims to offer an innovative educational model with indigenous elements that includes themes such as gender equity and addiction prevention in order to promote school attendance and education of indigenous girls.

Activities

Through workshops and meetings, teachers and parents will be trained in different topics and will develop a model and educative materials for children. They will include contents from the official government curriculum as well as raramuri elements.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $50

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $50.  The original project funding goal was $10,470.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will promote the education of indigenous girls with a gender perspective, involving parents and teachers in the process. More than 200 girls and women will have better opportunities and a strengthened indigenous identity.

Project Message

The materials we (parents) have elaborated with the teachers will be extremely useful for my children’s education. The workshops have also been very helpful for us to learn about different topics.
- Aurelia Vega, 20 years, Beneficiary's Mother

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Paula Sanchez Mejorada,
Resource Development Program Assistant
Tamaulipas 66
Col. Condesa
Mexico City, n/a 06140
Mexico
+52 (55) 55 53 01 09
Email:

Project Sponsor

Women's Funding Network

Organization

Semillas
Tamaulipas 66
Col. Condesa
Mexico City, N/A 06140
Mexico
+52 (55) 55 53 01 09
http://www.semillas.org.mx/

Learn more about Semillas and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Mexico and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Mexico, read the Human Development Report on Mexico or the Wikipedia entry for Mexico.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on October 25, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 16, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Project Update

By Paula Sánchez Mejorada - Development Assistant, October 01, 2007 05:26 PM

The project has had important achievements up to now:
- Primary school programs were designed by eight teachers including topics such as gender equity and addiction prevention
- 96 parents have attended 12 workshops
- 50 parents have taken part in meetings with the teachers.
- The participation of girls in scholar activities typically considered for boys (such as basketball), went up to 90 percent. In the same proportion the boys were involved in activities considered for girls.
- There were 30 visits to girls’ houses where the girls were ready to go to primary school; 12 of them started going to school. A 100 percent of the attendance by the enrolled girls was reported.

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