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.


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.


Quesería Migrant Labor Camp

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 Project Amigo University scholarship recipient Leticia Valle Vazquez.


Casa Amiga

Casa Amiga is the Project Amigo boarding facility for its university scholarship recipients in the city of Colima. The scholars who live here come from villages that are too far from the Colima (where the better high schools and the University are) 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 former Project Amigo university scholarship recipient, and also former Casa Amiga resident, Lety Valle.


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.