We started the year recruiting teachers for the new school year 2019. Teachers who are enthusiastic to learn something different and willing to face new education challenges. The ALMA team got training and we prepare to continue disseminating the ALMA curriculum along with our teaches. This curriculum promotes CRITICAL THINKING, ANALYTICAL THINKING, AND CREATIVITY […]
Alejandro is 10 years old and lives in the Manguita community. Until recently he was a shy boy and not very sociable and did not have good grades in school. As a student in the Alma program, Alejandro is beginning to show encouraging signs in school performance and his teachers said recently he is […]
Over the course of 2018, the Alma Foundation implemented five new projects – and we’re ready to keep growing. The new year brings an even greater challenge. This year we are implementing a total of 28 new projects. It won’t be easy but we are preparing for it, by training. We focused in […]
Corn was domesticated from the wild grass, Teosinte, in Mesoamerica around 9,000 years ago. However, the word “domesticated” doesn’t seem to tell enough of the story. Teosinte looks nothing like corn, and the process of selective splicing to turn it into maize must have taken generations. Eventually, around 6,500 years ago, that maize made […]
I am currently participating in a trip through Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos and ended up visiting a number of schools in remote indigenous communities here. I couldn’t help but notice that almost every community that I visited has a primary school and most have secondary and “high schools”. Also, I noticed that the schools […]
Here in Cusco, Peru we are in the midst of our intensive teacher training program before we send our teachers out to their respective communities. This week, we are doing the final tweaks and edits to the many lesson plans that make up our different dynamic and indigenous culture-based project activities: create a fun […]
I was walking quickly, trying to get my destination and avoid the traffic and crowds as much as possible. Since moving to the small mountain village called Urubamba, I’ve come to avoid going to the city of Cusco. As I was walking I heard a voice that sounded somewhat familiar, and when I looked up, […]