Latin American Literacy Project
The Abriendo Mentes (Opening Minds) project is a community-based literacy project with the mission to enhance literacy by providing experiential learning programs,creative arts instruction, and access to educational resources to rural Latin American communities. Since we are currently in the start up phase, our biggest challenge is to develop the online presence, marketing, and fund raising skills to ensure this program will expand and be sustainable. We specifically need assistance from volunteers with technical skills and fresh ideas to work with website and logo design, and marketing.
Our pilot project is located in Playa Potrero, which is a small village of a few hundred people on the Pacific coast in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica. The community school can only provide limited classes through the elementary level, thus steady learning and continuing education is a great challenge for this community and other rural Latin American villages. We provide afternoon English instruction incorporated with creative art activities and critical thinking skills to expand upon concepts taught in school. To further supplement our program, we take experiential learning field trips for real life application of the English language. We see our program as more than an operation to increase the English skills of rural communities, but rather as a way to increase self esteem, stimulate developing minds, and increase the overall literacy skills of the world. teachpotrero@gmail.com Related Link