They will also teach skills such as planning, budgeting, marketing, and finances to program participants. Through this time, students will have the opportunity to build relationships of trust, share the gospel, and minister encouragement and hope to those who are discouraged with their future prospects. Education Despair and hopelessness often mark a person with little or no education. In Guatemala the uneducated far outnumber the educated. Only 60 percent of the primary school children in Guatemala finish four years of education, and over half of its people are illiterate.
Teachers influence children in unimaginable ways.
As a member of the education practicum, students will be given the chance to influence children for the Lord. Students will teach English and other subjects to primary school children in a village school and assist Guatemalan teachers in their classrooms. This village of 15,000 has only a small public health clinic and until recently had neither a doctor nor medicine for the people. SI operates a clinic in Santa Maria, providing a doctor and medical care in this village. Students in the health care practicum work with the SI staff to offer primary health care, immunizations and health education to the people of Santa Maria.