Since the onset of the pandemic in March of 2020, we have adapted our Adult Learning Program to an online model. While we value the security measures and mandates that keep us safe, we can't wait to be together in the classroom again! Along the way, our Adult Education team has consistently found creative solutions to keep our students on track with their studies. Each month, our teachers create homework packets for their students, which they (safely) deliver every two weeks. These homework packets are returned to our teachers, who grade them, and call each of their students to discuss their progress. In addition, we've paid for all students to have WiFi on their phones so they’re able to receive weekly pre-recorded video lessons, engage in video tutoring sessions, and send pictures of homework when they’re experiencing difficulties. Our teachers and students alike have expressed their sadness in not being able to learn from each other in a group setting, but they’re finding ways to stay in touch and maintain as much normalcy as possible given extensive logistical and technological challenges.

Education, Creamos WomenHannah SklarJuly 5, 2021Comment

International Women's Day 2021: Choose to Challenge

Creamos women from the community surrounding the Guatemala City Garbage Dump confront a variety of systemic barriers, such as gender inequality, intimate partner violence, and economic and workforce exclusion. Gender inequality is so deeply entrenched in the community that women earn an average of 50% less than men. “Despite the fact that [men] earn more,” explains a Creamos participant, Anabela, “they give us very little…When you don't understand it, you don't realize that this is violence that we are enduring...it is a type of violence, it’s just a little more difficult to identify.”

Creamos WomenHannah SklarMarch 8, 2021

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