The School
Our proposal is to build an Education Centre for indigenous orphans and vulnerable children which will also serve as an Adult Training Centre in a village where children are often forced to work in plantations from the age of five.
The Peace Accords were signed in 1996 after 36 years, yet the war continues. Twenty years later, the indigenous people still suffer discrimination, human rights abuses and are drowning in a lake of extreme poverty, where education is a million light years away. Twenty years later, they are languishing in the corners of that star of prosperity that is Guatemala. Depriving children of education is one of the greatest rights abuses that indigenous people face today.
The School will provide educate for orphans and vulnerable children of both primary and secondary age. The school will also serve as an Adult Literacy and Skills Centre outside of school hours, improving the capacity of parents to provide for their families.
The School will provide girls and boys with a humane, multilingual education that preserves their Mayan culture and language, for a village without culture is without foundations; an education that doesn´t programme children but instead helps develop their gifts and talents, providing a pathway to building equality, peace and a green world.
AMOR was registered in the UK in 2012. AMOR works for justice in the indigenous communities of Guatemala devastated by genocide. In 2014, The British Ambassador classed AMOR as “the NGO with the potential to make the greatest impact on the lives of indigenous women and children in Guatemala”.
A key benefit is that the project will be carried out by a highly trained local team. Sandra Hannen M.Ed. will supervise the curriculum development and school management. The parents and volunteers will carry out the construction of the centre. AMOR will manage the implementation process, together with a local parent-teacher committee.
The Peace Accords were signed in 1996 after 36 years, yet the war continues. Twenty years later, the indigenous people still suffer discrimination, human rights abuses and are drowning in a lake of extreme poverty, where education is a million light years away. Twenty years later, they are languishing in the corners of that star of prosperity that is Guatemala. Depriving children of education is one of the greatest rights abuses that indigenous people face today.
The School will provide educate for orphans and vulnerable children of both primary and secondary age. The school will also serve as an Adult Literacy and Skills Centre outside of school hours, improving the capacity of parents to provide for their families.
The School will provide girls and boys with a humane, multilingual education that preserves their Mayan culture and language, for a village without culture is without foundations; an education that doesn´t programme children but instead helps develop their gifts and talents, providing a pathway to building equality, peace and a green world.
AMOR was registered in the UK in 2012. AMOR works for justice in the indigenous communities of Guatemala devastated by genocide. In 2014, The British Ambassador classed AMOR as “the NGO with the potential to make the greatest impact on the lives of indigenous women and children in Guatemala”.
A key benefit is that the project will be carried out by a highly trained local team. Sandra Hannen M.Ed. will supervise the curriculum development and school management. The parents and volunteers will carry out the construction of the centre. AMOR will manage the implementation process, together with a local parent-teacher committee.
