Report of activities at the Library Teodoro Kint, Los Pocitos, Centro

Recreativo. Period June to October 2016 Amigos de Holanda

In the first instance, we thank the valuable support of the Santa Rosa Fund which
allows us to carry out the services provided to the community of El Viejo, Chinandega.
These are in the field of education to the Library, scholarships to the community of Los
Pocitos and in the area of training from the Centro Recreativo.
The Library offers its services to the schools in El Viejo. Between June and October
the breakdown of attendees is:
14 primary schools
8 colleges and institutes offering secondary education.
3 universities
Josefa Arguello School, which is situated on the outskirts of the city, has registered the
largest attendance. Those children who attend have the least resources.
Number of people who attended
Month
June
July
August
September
October

Users
449
260
383
312
543

The Library also offers a photocopy service to its users. In addition, craftwork is taught
and reading is promoted through the story telling corners.
Before the departure of the Sisters Mercedarias the decision had been taken to close
the Library because of low use as a result of an increase in the use of internet
however, on further investigation we discovered that the users of the Library are those
who do not have access to the internet. Therefore the decision to close would have left
many children without the possibility of carrying out their work and research.
Projections for 2017
1. We have considered that it is important to provide training to the child users of
the Library
in technical skills that they can take with them when they
move up to secondary school. To enable this we believe the we will need at least
3 computers and offer computer training courses during the year.
2. We will reactivate contact with the National Library with the objective of having
access to training and new materials.

Los Pocitos
We will continue to offer scholarships. It has not been possible to approach the
community because the bad winter destroyed the access road. We have scheduled to
visit in the new year.

Centro Recreativo
Education is the starting point for development for everyone.
During these months of work, the Centro Recreativo has carried out their interventions
so that young children, adolescents and adults have access to educational processes
which in other surroundings they will not find.
A total of 601 have attended, illustrated in the graph below showing monthly
attendance

The different activities are focussed on human development. Among the activities we
have undertaken recently are:

A meeting with boys and girls of migrant families: with whom Saturdays,
we meet to talk about themes such as no to violence, migration, personal
growth and care plus protecting the natural environment and others.
Training workshops in the communities: as a centre we see the opportunity
to talk with the youth, at times during these last 5 months we have given
workshops about sexual reproductive health and no to violence where the
participants reflect and express their main concerns.
Dance and handicraft classes: this space has been created for all ages so as
to allow them to develop their creative sense and artistic skills, in their own
time they are trained in different themes such as personal growth, self esteem,
and above all in these classes education values are important where we teach
them to be friendly amongst themselves, with the environment that surrounds
them, to respect, share and be generous with those who can.
Other educational programmes: at certain times the coordinator responsible
for development has trained groups of organisations on topics of common
interest. Within these they have addressed working with children, masculinity,
analysis in the context of HIV and no to violence. These have been delivered
through gatherings, meetings or cinema forums. This methodology is part of the
work of the Centro Recreativo.

As The Centre we wish to continue educating those that we can and it is for this
that our energy is concentrated in educational proposals which are of interest to
the people who visit our space so we can offer the children, adolescents youth
and adults the opportunity to continue growing and that they can contribute to
making society more fair and equitable.