During the month of January Estancia Nueva Vida received Passion Foundation – Global Sorority whose purpose is to delivering leadership training. This connection occurred from the interest that Brian Archimedes MD and his wife Deyanira Mendoza MD (both Canadian volunteers at Estancia Nueva Vida) have in connecting people or organizations that can work together for a common goal.
What is Passion Foundation? Passion Foundation is a Canadian non-profit organization led by Loretta Cella (founder) who together with Tia Kelly (co-founder) have created an initiative called GLOBAL SORORITY which has the great vision of providing girls around the globe with leadership skills and connecting those girls to share experiences. http://www.passionfoundation.org/,http://www.globalsorority.com/
While the Canadian non-profit organization members were here they delivered together with Patricia (Nueva Vida Director) and Deyanira MD (Nueva Vida Volunteer, and now representative of Passion Foundation – Global Sorority in Mexico) fourteen hours of leadership training concluding with the development of four different projects that the girls will carry out over the course of 3 months.
The development of these projects has several objectives, the main one to help these girls learn skills that they can use for the rest of their lives: anything from presentation skills to project management skills and of course to think ahead to the future. One purpose also is to raise funds so they can donate them for a good cause and in this way connect with their community. In general all the projects will conclude in the project event at the beginning of July where the girls will: sell used clothes and provide basic beauty services, they will also sell piggy banks that they have made, as well as collect some piggy banks that will be placed in some locations for people to donate money and provide the community with materials and guidance, they will also show how to make crafts with recyclable materials in exchange of a donation.
Here are some fotos of the girls in their training
Deyanira and Patricia helped facilitate and translate the training and continue working with these girls to sustain the development of leadership, teamwork, and project management skills.
The wrap up for the leadership training was a lovely lunch provided by 100% Natural restaurant
