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What are Homework Clubs? | Cofradía
de Suchitlán | Suchitlán | Quesería Migrant
Labor Camp | Colonia
Rotaria | Casa
Amiga | Monthly | Community Service
What are Homework Clubs?
Every student who receives a scholarship from Project Amigo - in junior high, high school, or college - must attend a weekly Homework Club. These clubs provide students with tutoring and mentoring. But most of all, it provides us with a way of keeping in close touch with the students, so we can identify problems before they become so severe that the student is forced to drop out of school. Through the Homework Clubs Project Amigo is able to intervene when a student has severe health, family, or economic problems. All the Homework Clubs are supported by donations to Project Amigo's Scholarship Fund.
Jorge Torres (left, standing) leads the Cofradía de Suchitlán Homework Club every Wednesday afternoon at the Hacienda of Project Amigo.
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The Clubs
Cofradía de Suchitlán
The village of Cofradía de Suchitlán is home to Project Amigo's offices, and to the largest Homework Club. Begun in 2001, the Cofradía de Suchitlán Club meets in the Hacienda, Project Amigo's guest facility, every Wednesday afternoon. The homework club leader is Jorge Torres Preciado, Project Amigo's Director of Children's Services. Local volunteers Eduardo Rubalcava and his wife, Elena Govea also participate regularly. The Cofradía homework club serves between 20 and 26 students each week.
Suchitlán
Four kilometers "down the hill" from Cofradía de Suchitlán lies the village of Suchitlán. The junior high school attended by Project Amigo’s junior high scholars is in this village. The scholars who attend the homework club of Suchitlán include a university student, and junior high and high school students. This homework club meets on Friday afternoons and is led by Jorge Torres.
The Homework Club at the migrant labor camp in Quesería is the only one designed to include elementary school children as well as scholarship recipients. All the school children living in the camp, not just the junior high students, need extra help, since they speak Spanish as a second language. For this reason, the Club is taught by a hired teacher with help from Project Amigo volunteers. It is held on Saturdays at 5:00 p.m. in the kindergarten classroom.
Colonia Rotaria
Colonia
Rotaria is a neighborhood of simple but dignified houses built for
poor families in the city of Colima as a result of an international partnership
between individuals, NGOs, Rotary Clubs in the United States and Canada,
and Mexican government agencies. Fifty families live in Colonia Rotaria. The young people in this neighborhood who receive Project Amigo scholarships to junior high and high school meet every Saturday afternoon under the leadership of
Casa Amiga
Casa
Amiga is the Project Amigo boarding facility for young women students
in the city of Colima. The scholars who live here come from villages that are too far from the high schools and university to make a daily public bus commute feasible. The Casa Amiga homework meets Monday evenings from 9:30 to 10:30pm, and is led by University scholarship recipient and Casa Amiga resident Leticia Valle Vazquez.
Once a month, the Casa Amiga residents also receive a special 4-hour psychology session led by Elena Govea. During these sessions the students explore personal problems together, and participate in self-confidence-building and communications-improving workshops.
Monthly
The Monthly homework club meets at Casa Amiga one Saturday a month and is for junior high, high school and University scholars who live in remote villages, as well as in the Colima area, and who come to Casa Amiga the first Saturday of the month to attend. The Monthly homework club is overseen by Jorge Torres and Leticia Valle Vazquez.
Volunteer Eduardo Rubalcava, a retired
engineer, tutors young students in math and sciences.
Visitor with scholarship student at Cofradía Homework Club which meets every Wednesday
afternoon.
Students from the small village of
Ixtlahuacán practice their English with young volunteers from the
Eugene, Oregon area.
Good students living in Colonia Rotaria are eligible for an project Amigo scholarship to junior high and high school. All scholarship recipients attend weekly Homework Club at the Colonia Rotaria community center.
Planting a Tabuchin to bring shade and beauty to a country road.
During the 2006-07 school year -
70 students are receiving Project Amigo scholarships to attend junior high, high school and the University of Colima
Every student who receives a scholarship from Project Amigo - in junior high, high school, or college - must attend a weekly Homework Club. These clubs provide students with tutoring and mentoring. But most of all, it provides us with a way of keeping in close touch with the students, so we can identify problems before they become so severe that the student is forced to drop out of school.
Community Service
Cofradía de
Suchitlán homework club members planted 80 trees to bring shade
and beauty to the road leading out of the village.
The project was part of their community service commitment to keep them
eligible for their scholarships. Two hours after they finished the work,
the skies opened up and gave the new plantlings a generous drink of water.
Marichuy carries baby trees to their new locations.
What are Homework Clubs? | Cofradía de Suchitlán | Suchitlán | Quesería Migrant Labor Camp | Colonia Rotaria | Casa Amiga | Monthly | Community Service
This page last updated July 2006.