Sophomore Country Project

Kevin Guzman

Daniel Villa

Biotech-Academy

March 26 2011

Puerto Rico

            Puerto Rico is a wonderful place to visit, but if you look deep inside you may find things that u would never expect from such a beautiful tourist country. Puerto Rico has a very big problem with education. They have the schools required to educate everybody on the island but not enough materials like books, backpacks, pencils, paper etc. Luckily thanks to the biotech academy we had the honor to research and do something about that. My partner and I found a non -profit organization called Mayaguez Children. We put all our research together and used it to educate our community and ask for help to supply materials for the children in Puerto Rico that would do anything for an education.

            Mayaguez Children is an organization but also a library. It asks for help from any one who would wish to give up time, you may donate from the minimum of 15 dollars and that may help a child’s education by supplying he/she with a book or two. According to puertorico.com age 15 and over can read and write in Puerto rico and with the hep of these donations the average age rank can go down to about 10 years old. This is why we decided to educate the community and get help to collect money.

            We started off by making cards asking the community to let us educate them about the need of school materials in our country, Puerto Rico. We asked for the amount you would desire, anything counted.  And for the the next few days we spent most of our time giving facts and educating the community.

            We presented twice and both to families that also wanted to teach their children something, they wanted them to see and listen what it is like to be in need and how happy children can get if all u do is donate a few dollars for books and school supplies. After we finished with this project it tought both my partner and I that volunteering is the best way to help someone and learn about the outside world  yourself.

            Mayaguez Children is an organization but also a library. It asks for help from any one who would wish to give up time, you may donate from the minimum of 15 dollars and that may help a child’s education by supplying he/she with a book or two. Starting off by making cards asking the community to let us educate them about the need of school materials in our country, Puerto Rico. We presented twice and both to families that also wanted to teach their children something, they wanted them to see and listen what it is like to be in need and how happy children can get if all u do is donate a few dollars for books and school supplies. Not only did we educate others but also ourselves it tought us to appreciate what we have and give what we have learned.