career day

Though graduation had passed, there was still a week of summer programs at our school. Sarah, one of the summer interns, planned a business type week for the oldest class. The first day, a handful of our friends and parents of some of the students came and spoke.

Each speaker told of his/her job, what all that entailed, how he/she came about getting the job, etc. It was really neat to see how interested the students were, and how much they listened to the different professionals speaking. I think it gave them hope that they too could one day have a consistent job if they try hard enough.

Some of the speakers included Juan (construction worker, pictured), Miguel (electrician, pictured), Benjamin (teacher, grew up in the Compassion program), Ariel (accountant), and Natanael's mother (colmado owner).

The next day we set up a pretend town in the classroom with different venders and gave the students pretend pesos to see how they chose to spend their money. All the kids really enjoyed it.