Children and teachers engage in hands-on education, critical thinking, and mutual respect.
Teacher training for schools seeking to find a more effective way to teach.
Empowernig children to become literate by reading and writing in their native language.
Students cultivate organic produce, practice environmental stewardship
Inspireing meaningful exchanges that strengthen community ties and inspire collaborative learning.
Nurturing creative expression by supporting women artisans
Many children around the world do not acquire functional literacy skills even if they have had a K-3 education because they are not learning to read in their mother tongue. It is illogical to think that a child can read for meaning in a language for which he or she does not have a rich […]
Friends of Matènwa supports programs that offer the Matènwa community, and by extension other communities of Haiti, opportunities to achieve their expressed community goals in non-violent mother tongue education, agricultural development and social justice.