Thanks to a grant from the Hilton Foundation, Buen Pastor now has a solor powered system. Yesterday's 10 hour installation placed the system above the internado and will provide 40 hot showers for all the girls and students. The savings for Buen Pastor will be immense!
Thanks to a grant from the Hilton Foundation, Buen Pastor now has a solor powered system. Yesterday's 10 hour installation placed the system above the internado and will provide 40 hot showers for all the girls and students. The savings for Buen Pastor will be immense!
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For three weeks in July, five young ladies and one guy laboriously painted, weeded, planted grass, artfully placed mulch, and transformed the girls’ playground. They even painted a basketball court. Unbelievable! What’s more: not only did they volunteer their time, they spent their own money on supplies. The girls are going to love coming back to this in September! All the madres were so impressed by the self-initiative these volunteers came with. Madre Lourdes told me this is a remarkable example of spirited service. The volunteers would come and work all day and then stayed with Mexican families when they weren’t doing good things at Buen Pastor. I hope they had a wonderful experience in Guanajuato. I also hope they know how much the madres appreciate what they did. This is truly amazing. Another school year has come to an end. Before the girls left home for the summer, the secundarias hosted an art show in the hall. Visitors came to see the projects they had worked on with Katie of eStudio473. Some of the girls were able to sell their photographs and art pieces. We also enjoyed a visit our friends in San Miguel who brought pizza, cake, a clown wig & nose. Clowns, you say? Yes, clowns! The girls had fun dressing up and being silly, almost as much as one of the visitors. Before the girls left, Madre Lourdes held a reunion with the parents. She played a slideshow of everyone who had been a part of Buen Pastor during the year. It certainly takes a community to raise a child, and we're lucky to have so many people who volunteer their time and donate their money to help us grow. Every parent stood in front of the room, and one by one, expressed their gratitude for having Buen Pastor love and nurture their daughter. It was a pretty special ending to another spectacular year. Week 1 of The Adobe Youth Voices Project was a big success on all counts. The girls created a Value Tree and then participated in a photo scavenger hunt. For details, see class notes at the Buen Pastor Adobe Youth Voices website. A big thanks to Betty Londergan for highlighting The Adobe Youth Voices Project on her popular and postive blog, WhatGives365! Betty spreads hope and incentive by highlighting an inspirational project everyday for one year. She roots for the Underdog and brings attention to folks quietly doing great things. What’s more, she donates $100 of her own money towards the good work she highlights daily. Read her post on The Adobe Youth Voices Project here: Every Picture Tells a Story. On Thursdays, the girls have singing practice. They're preparing for their presentation a week from Friday when we all come to celebrate Santa Maria Eufraisa, the founder of Buen Pastor. It's so fun to watch them. Their practice is a mix of singing, jumping, zumba, hugging, running, and overall infectious enthusiasm! Adobe Youth Voices joins eStudio473 this week to deepen the girls' exploration in multimedia storytelling. One of our volunteer educators, Rebeca Beeman, has created a video and a blog to kick things off. The video introduces AYV at Buen Pastor and the blog will provide ongoing commentary on the girls' progress. Adobe Youth Voices joins eStudio 473 to foster cutting edge digital storytelling to the girls at Buen Pastor. The project begins when the girls get back from Spring Break and finishes the end of May. Every week will build on the last. We will be introducing the girls to photography, story telling, production, video, audio and helping them build a multimedia project with their newly acquired skills. Read more about our first session here. At the moment, the three facilitators, Rebeca, Juanita and Katie, are all learning the ways of working mixed media magic with Adobe Premier Elements. After learning these techniques and establishing a curriculum, they will work with the willing participants of eStudio 473 to produce Buen Pastor's own mixed media story! We hope to share our final product with our community and possibly other cities across the globe. We've put together a donation list. Feel free to contribute!
Over the past 10 weeks, the secundarias have been taking a Visual Journaling Workshop. Under the guidance of Katie Clancy of eStudio 473, they have learned about basic elements of design, drawing techniques and are currently diving into color theory. Every session begins with an exploration of memories, dreams, love, respect, and important relationships through writing exercises. To inspire their work, the girls have studied influential artists such as Dan Eldon, Lynda Barry, Robert Frank and Peter Shank. In the coming weeks, the girls will start the second workshop, Retratos: Identidad y Relaciones. They'll develop both self portraits and portraits of the important female figures in their lives as they study the work of Joseph Cornell, Chuck Close and Ida Applebroog. Using the techniques inspired by one or more of these artists, they will create a group project as well their own individual works of art. The end goal is to exhibit the girls final projects. We're all looking forward to the art the girls will produce. |
AuthorHi, my name is Juanita and I'm excited about the wonderful things going on at Buen Pastor. I update this blog to share snippets of everyday life here with you. Thanks for stopping by. EspañolEste blog está disponible en español Archives
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