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Rotary Club: Seward Project Title: Guatemala Girls' Club Support 1. Describe the project. What was done, when and where did project activities take place? There are Girls Clubs in 13 rural communities in Guatemala. there are 288 girls currently in clubs. Ages 7-17. This grant was used to purchase 90 tablets for various girls club locations. Wakami now has enough tablets so eqch girl has her own tablet to learn on. They stay in the girls club location, they don't get taken home. The tablets were recently purchased and distributed to the various girls clubs. Typically there are 20-25 gitls per club. Girls clubs are a safe space for personal growth and social growth for girls and young women. Where girls develop life skills, build bonds with peers in their communitiy and have better opportunities for life. 2. How many people benefited from this project? 90 directly, but all 288 girls in girls clubs. 3. Who were the beneficiaries, how were they impacted by this project, and what humanitarian need was met? Girls ages 7-17 living in rural Guatemala. Girls Club is an adjuct to school. There is a set curriculum. The tablets are preloaded with the curriculum. Topics include, but not limited to: self esteem, social relationships, human rights, health, conflict resolution, social responsibility, sorority, computer skills and English language. This is a culture where girls drop out of school at 2-4th grade and become married, wives ad mothers at 14 years old. The tablets are also wifi capable and English language lessons are ongoing with a teacher in one central location reaching all the clubs via the internet. Literacy is the best Rotary area of focus covered by this grant. 4. How many Rotarians participated in the project? in 2024 six rotarians, from 4 different D5010 clubs visited 2 different girls clubs in Feb. 2024. 5. What did they do? Please give at least two examples, not including financial support provided to the project. Rotarians read to the girls in english and the girls read to us in spanish. We did a craft project with the girls, around our dreams. In an introduction activity we introduced ourselves, stated our age and our dream. The girls dream of being artists, doctors, nurses, female police officers, professional soccer players, lawyers. Where their mothers probably didn't have those dreams because they were expected to only be wives and mothers. And most of the mothers likely only have 3 years of school. these girls can now dream of graduating from high school and college. 6. If a cooperating organization was involved, what was its role? The Wakami Foundation is the US based non-profit. They were the pass through entity to the Guatemala based non-profit Communities of the Earth (COTE). COTE is on the ground in Guatemala and has the staff that carry out the programs and monitoring in Guatemala. 7. Income
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