Irapuato, Gto., May 9, 2017.- With demonstration activities of the program "Mentroes UG" (UG Mentors) and workshops to solve the educational lag problem through motivation, students of the University of Guanajuato (UG) visited the Villa Infantil Orphanage in the city of Irapuato, where they coexisted with more than thirty children and teenagers.
Fulfilling the "Reto Mentores" in the recently closed 5th edition, more than 50 college students from all UG divisions, the National Pedagogic Unit-Unit 111 Guanajuato, and the Universidad de León, unit Leon, shared the objects and the methodology they have been working –and updating—with for more than three years.
The liaison leader of the Organizing Team, Regina Mercado Calderón, a law student, mentioned: "We share the objectives to motivate future generations in their education with a close example in many knowledge areas, as a Mentor; early detection of talent, and financing for its education; all the program's permanent objectives, with a comprehensive methodology and practice with tangible results since 2014."
Is a program that, in words of the mentor César Augusto Hernández Rodríguez, "it emerges with the purpose to strengthen education and fight against that makes children quit studying."
The college students used the occasion to motivate children to continue forming in art, science, humanities, and in "all that which can improve their ambience", by giving them school supplies and support to maintain the orphanage.
Grow by growing
On May 3 began the first edition of the program "UG Mentors" in the community El Copal, where students of the Division of Life Sciences of Campus Irapuato-Salamanca participated, with support from the academic authorities, and above all, from the children and their families in the community, in which they extend the main objectives.
"It has been a great effort from our peers in Irapuato to learn and adapt to the program's model, a challenge they have conquered and with the set on motion of Mentors Irapuato, that is evidence of an excellent team work", commented Jessica Durán, General Leader of the Mentors Organizing Team.
With more than eight elementary schools in the city of Guanajuato, more than 120 children attending the program, more than 50 college students from different higher education institutions, and approximately two thousand followers of the activities in their social networks, UG Mentors invites everyone to know the program and join a permanent effort to address childhood and its educational development.
