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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

An exciting week!

This week at the club has been so exciting and full of all sorts of activities! Jenny and Jencen are still hitting the English classes hard daily and the kids are learning so much! Yesterday it was learning about the titles of family members and then going around the class asking each other if they "had a mother? a brother? a husband? a girlfriend?" It was great!

We've also been working really hard on both the jewelry and the sewing classes so the girls can learn the trade (of both!), learn to produce whatever it is they are working on, learn to market and mass produce the product, and then turn to sell it in their neighborhoods, downtown, around the barrios, all over town. We're hoping to provide them with the tools and the know-how through vocational training to be successful in the future. And it's really taking off!

Here the girls are working on their sewing and jewelry projects. They love doing them!






While the girls are hard at work learning their new skills, the boys are working so hard on their health and fitness class! Jencen has been doing such a great job working with them and on Saturday he worked with the younger boys, teaching them to do push-ups and sit-ups. They were having such a great time! It was so great to see them loving working with Jencen so much, they were sad when he told them class was over!





We've had a great day this week at the club! We're so excited for the rest of the summer!

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