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Colegio Paulino Salgado
Barranquilla, Colombia
My students visits paulino Salgado
August 17, 2010
My students trip to barranquilla, Colombia. Here is what they did while in Barranquilla. It was a great experience for all of them. They had the opportunity to teach English
July 19, 2010
In the past year, Colegio Paulino Salgado has received alot of attention from the community due to several articles in Barranquilla's local newspaper giant, El Heraldo. The prinicpal, cultural events,
February 08, 2010
Hi my name is Alex Gomez. I am the coordinator in the USA for the Paulino Salgado Project. I arrived to my hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia with 9 students from
Lessons Learned
Colegio Paulino Salgado, by Brett Rezek
June 22, 2011
Approximately one year ago I returned from Barranquilla, Colombia. Having spent 4 months volunteering at Colegio Paulino Salgado and La Fundacion Marcus Garvey, I am convinced I learned more from the students and teachers than I was able to teach. Unfortunatley, my plans to return to Colombia within the year have been thwarted by limited financial and time availability, but I continue to remain in contact with the school.Again in February, the school hosted a group of highschool students from their sister school Francis Parker in California. Lead by the founder of this relationship, Alex Gomez, the students not only fulfilled a service learning requirment, but taught English for two weeks to the entire Paulino population and learned an invaluable lesson about poverty stricken communities in developing countries.Currently, after an invitation from Francis Parker,...
Futbol at Paulino Salgado
Colegio Paulino Salgado, by Brett Rezek
June 07, 2010
Futbol (soccer) is one of the most popular and influential sports in the entire world and Colegio Paulino Salgado is not unlike most schools in Colombia that place a great deal of value on the sport. Each day at recess the children play on the concrete with the one ball shared by 600 students until it is lost over the patio walls. Sometimes the ball makes it back to the school and sometimes not.To alleviate the dependence on a single ball, we were lucky enough to receive 20 brand new Nike soccer balls with two pumps and a ball bag by the Fort Lewis College Men's Soccer Team delivered in person by their Head Coach Oige Kennedy. The kids were more than grateful and were especially excited to be playing...
Paulino Salgado in the News
Colegio Paulino Salgado, by Brett Rezek
May 25, 2010
After visits from American NGOs, several cultural events and meetings with local government officials, three times in the newspaper and once on TV isn’t a bad record for a small underprivileged school in Colombia. El Heraldo, the biggest paper in Barranquilla, has featured the students, the principal, and the volunteer from Paulino Salgado and has helped in our efforts to creating local awareness about the plight of displaced and ignored communities. Please have a look at our school and project in the news! The articles are in Spanish but I’d be happy to translate if anyone is interested. Please let me know.www.elheraldo.com.co/ELHERALDO/BancoConocimiento/0/0futuro_a_ta_ku_suto_el_futuro_esta_con_nosotros/0futuro_a_ta_ku_suto_el_futuro_esta_con_nosotros.aspThis article describes the African traditions and cultures which influence the curriculum used at Paulino Salgado as well as explaining a few of teh obstacles the school has overcome since...
Good News From Colombia
Colegio Paulino Salgado, by Brett Rezek
May 25, 2010
As most of the world knows, Colombia has not only suffered from a violent history of civil conflict, but is now infested with corruption at all levels of business and government. The violence has led to the displacement of many minority communities in the south and the corruption prevents those in power from helping displaced persons. Many students attending Colegio Paulino Salgado are AfroColombian children from displaced communities who on a daily basis experience the negligence of the local government. This year however, surprisingly enough, things have changed for the better. Denny Lloreda, the principal of Paulino Salgado as well as the woman I have been living with during my time in Barranquilla, has taken huge strides in the improvement of her school’s image. A highly educated woman who has...
Bonding
Colegio Paulino Salgado, by Brett Rezek
April 28, 2010
The most rewarding part of being an international volunteer is looking into the eyes of the people you work with, in my case children of all ages, and realizing that not only do they appreciate what you are doing but they rely on your friendship. I am an English teacher at Colegio Paulino Salgado in Barranquilla, Colombia but I don´t view the kids as just my students: They are my friends. We have exchanged stories, laughed together, argued, listened to music, teased eachother, played games, danced and helped eachother learn a foreign language. I miss them on the weekends, we wave to eachother in the street, we eat our lunch together on a daily basis, and hold eachother accountable for our actions. To me, this is the definition of a friendship....
PenPal Project
Colegio Paulino Salgado, by Brett Rezek
April 25, 2010
Before leaving Colorado to make my way to Colombia I followed the advice of the Omprakah Foundation and decided to connect a couple elementary classrooms with those in Barranquilla. Speaking with the librarian at one of the local elementary schools was all it took to get the project rolling as she was also very excited for the challenge. Originally we discussed exchanging emails so that not only would the children get to learn about others in different countries, but also so they may have practice using modern technology. The plan was to attach photos with each letter, send videos eventually and create a long term realtionship between both groups involved. However, with many technical difficulties at the Colombian school, we were unable to follow through with this plan. So we moved on to Plan B.Luckily, I had a realative visiting so we went with the...
Networking Within the Local Community
Colegio Paulino Salgado, by Brett Rezek
April 14, 2010
Shortly after arriving to Barranquilla, I noticed a lack of participation from locals within their developing and needy communities. In a city highly dependant on international commerce, known as the commercial gateway to Colombia, and containing several universities, I couldn´t believe that there was not a single Colombian volnuteering in any of the schools I had visited. As an American, I have always been taught that social service is an essential part of being a productive member of a community. Therefore, I decided to seek out a way to involve Barranquilleros (people fromBarranquilla) in our partner´s work as well as with other schools in the area.We are still in the beginning stages of our search for help, but to start, I have shared my concerns and goals with many different kinds of people. For starters, during...
Barranquilla, Colombia
Colegio Paulino Salgado, by Brett Rezek
April 13, 2010
Currently I am in Colombia on my very first international volunteer project, and I am very pleased to be working with Omprakash. So far, my time in Barranquilla has been exciting, stressful, tiring, and fun, but most of all it has been rewarding. I will never beable to express the true feeling of helping those in need and I would hope that everyone, at least once in their life, gets the chance to lend a hand either to their local community or to those abroad.The project I am with, Colegio Paulino Salgado, was in need of a native English speaker to help with their curriculum. After a very quick application process last November I was on my way to Colombia at the beginning of February and have been teaching since the first few days of my arrival. I have...