Family Care Foundation: Mentoring Program Mexico

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The forty-seven registered teenage students of our first community service/mentoring class. Coming from underprivileged backgrounds, they are enthusiastic and serious about this unique opportunity to improve their potential.

Attentive students in one of the classes offered through the program, which also allows these young people the opportunity to learn a second language.

Community Center/Mentoring Program
Corazones Unidos, Morelia, Mexico

The adoption of Corazon Unidos' Mentoring Program is based on their founding concept - unite those with the need with those with the ability to help. This mentoring program even takes this a step further, by developing a model that allows for active participation by donors and part-time volunteers while offering enhanced services to a targeted sector of youth.

The program is designed for young people from underprivileged families, beginning with those from the 250 families whose mothers have been attending the Advancement Program for Underprivileged Mothers featured in an earlier I-Care edition. It is not geared to dysfunctional youth but rather to those who are serious about improving their future potential but who might not otherwise have the opportunity due to their economic status.

Classes are taught two afternoons weekly from 4-7p.m. to young people ages 13-29, with additional classes and afternoons scheduled to begin in April. Because it is by nature a “mentoring” program it is designed to not only teach physical skills such as typing, basic computing, secretarial work, music, English, home economics, and music, to name a few, as well as character building, good work ethics, community service, and spiritual development.

“We have been very encouraged to see the positive response from members of the professional community. Many have volunteered to teach classes while others are taking a more active role in helping with organization. A lawyer has volunteered to help with translating and wording of our documents, articles, and layout. A biologist has been a great help organizing schedules for the center, two older students who speak perfect English have also volunteered to help with phone solicitation, while a law student offered his services as a volleyball coach,” reports Kay Pribyl, project manager of Corazones Unidos.

To access their web page click:Corazon Unidos.

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