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Acompañando Comunidades | Brenda Lemus | TEDxUFM


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[Applause]
in 1940 in a village of low verapaz
beautiful in the forest did not enjoy existed
a child who was a visionary a
person did not let him study but the
tse break to go to school
he arrived at the university and was a candidate
to the rector of the University of San Carlos
from guatemala
I think that this boy drew us the
I walk his daughter
I received from him a legacy of
immeasurable love for humanity
for knowledge and education
I’m sure my way to get there
here in front of you started when my
dad stopped the floorboards of his
house to be able to escape to go to
study and I’m sure if he
I was here smiling and
satisfied because he always felt very
comfortable among our university students
way to get to college
it always comes as a planning in
where parents have prepared us for
to open doors and we arrived
as the autopilot
not all have this opportunity not
we all have our doors open on
Today I am here to speak
of the children who have the doors
closed but the firm conviction of
want to continue studying talks like
this allow us
provide the children with those keys
that are going to open the doors so that
can opt to futur to be able
finish my talk or get better with
a knowledge of what I want
to transmit
I want to tell you some stories and
put a face and put a name to
the girl that you see on the screen that
this
marked as a red arrow mechi
is now examining itself for
today enter school
national agricultural training
chile since she was little
I wanted to do agronomy and I wanted to
record is given one of the best
universities in Latin America
she went to the library looking
who believed in her and us to
through social networks
we get professional people
that they bet with my heart
want an ordinary girl
vulnerable to all eyes to everything
what have you done little girls
resources in the interior of the country that
they are early pregnancies and marriage
teenager because it turns out that for
Many people from my town get pregnant
or get married in the best way out
fast from hunger that is happening in the
home
messi has a phrase that to me
love
she says that wonderful things can
happen when a princess takes off her
crown and armor becomes her
the 12 years old he put on a suit of armor and
moved away from the choir of the home to go to
study another municipality
in the photograph appears less than
one month as vice president of
youth parliament and in the program
deputy for a day of the congress
national of the republic
the one that follows here ron and me ronnie is a
child as the library approached
a day to go to accept is for you
help to do tasks immediately
his intelligence and his intellectual acuity
highlighted him today he outlined it as one of
the greatest community leaders
that we have that was just does
four years
ron and to this day we calculate
who has read more than 200 books each
one of them with a session of
critical thinking of stimulation the
critical thinking
in January ronnie saw near his house to
a lady who had practically
been voted on the street at the time
of the birth was having his son
number 6 and there were five little ones that
they had not eaten rum and instead of
be doing caprice in your house to
give him and a phone
Smart cellular detected the problem
he outlined what he documented and voice with the
channels to solve
that’s how ronny started a campaign
media that managed to solve the
Dona Libya’s family that appears
Photo
the most immediate needs are and if
you want to try the best soup
hen of all guatemala do it in the
his mother’s house at four o’clock in the
tomorrow everyone stands up
are the adults and counting fire
heating water are doing
spare parts making breakfasts and when
the replacement of the
little girls go out to sell the men to
work on women to collapse by
they
So he starts zulma plucking chickens
every day at 4 in the morning
I try to do it fast because after
of this she runs to the library to do
their tasks and then two hours ago
community work
every day for the benefit of
children of the population
zulma as a child wanted to be a bachelor
in computing
however as a bit of bitterness a
day he approached us today he told us that
they had decided at home that they no longer
I could continue studying that they were going to
give your brother the chance
Alvaro the eight chiquitito
years that every day he was going
early in the morning to wash dishes at
market to be able to contribute something in its
house and it turned out that the sale of atol and
the sale of spare parts did not reach
to buy a computer was to
through social networks
us there in the middle of the mountains
we managed to get in the united States
a person who works in the
harvard education department
who is supporting her financially
Now you see that flag and the
representative of your institution before
important congresses related to the theme
she does not want to be a bachelor now
she wants to be a systems engineer
all this we have achieved by providing
access to education but above all
providing access to reading
I do not have or I do not intend to tell you about
all the benefits that reading brings
with him
it is enough for you to know that the
Readers
the self-taught we start
wanting to make a reading club and
our planet was doing it in six
months the good easy to get a couple of
books of all ages
you place them the loans if they win
finished
that was the expectation the reality is
that our plans to the children of the
community did not care
We were working in a community
where seven out of ten children
suffer from chronic malnutrition and many
of them when they arrive at the library
They have more than 24 hours of
ingested food for my children
community was more important to survive
then we learned our first great
lesson you can not talk about
education when you have your feet
barefoot and empty stomach
we find in this the
solution for many of the problems
I’ll tell you one side of us
we had the assistance that we
is drowning as a population
on the other side we had some
children eager to learn and in
the other end of the triangle we had
many volunteers from the country more
generous of
girl who really wanted to help
but the combination for years has
proved that it was fatal
these children will become adults
comfortable and these people did
charity resolved through this
we put the children to work
for them to do work
community
every child has to buy all the
benefits that a library has and
with this purchase of school supplies
buy school supplies that
they are used to be able to go to the
school
they make them with garbage thanks to the
barking echoes we have taken from
circulation in two years over three
millions and a half of packages not
recyclable candy and more than 36
thousand plastic bottles here in the
photograph you can see the
children of a community giving the
thank you because for these barking echoes
they can access school supplies
recycle or more
our volunteers our youth
volunteers work in the library in
December 200 hours children from
the 10 years reconditioning everything
this material so that other children
of the people can have access to a
suply list
then having solved the problem
of food and having solved the
problem of school supplies
we were finally able to start our
our adventure our final adventure
that was the reading but we started
grow a lot and we did not feed ourselves
then we had the alliance of a group
of voters in guatemala of readers
chapín is and they are working with
us thanks to video readers
we have access to sessions of
reading comprehension with
critical thinking stimulation
from the reader to the reader of various parts
of the world and of guatemala also all
children and want to participate right now
is ending
pilot program but it has been very successful
the children develop with a lot
We have confidence in stimulation
for this is the program that we
we believe that it is called beyond me
community
this program aims as well as
bernardo lemus knew that there was a
world beyond what he could
see that all the children of the village
can access this world
this year we managed to get 90 readers
90 voters because we have a
reading club that has reading to the
half of the student population and the
student population in by one of two
thousand 225 students and 1,160 are readers
and they are readers with critical reasoning
we started to manage it
managed through networks and we have
as a result that people joined
Individual friends and family
business enterprises to achieve
to 90 children to the first best trip of his
lifetime
this is the fourth year that we do it in
the month of June we left with 90
dreams packed to an end trip
long week of three days full of
book fair theater
restaurants of leisure activities of
tickets to parks and the result was
wonderful
we also got the boys to be
to know the sea because of the 90 children
that we took from the village
where we come
there were two who know the sea and everything
others I did not know him
during the trip the social networks
they exploited we hate a
photograph and immediately people
you tell us
they put us pictures where they do not
they had seen where they had seen
the bust parked or where they did not come down
halfway for us to stop
and the children could have a glass of
lemonade people who wanted to meet
the people who wanted them wanted
greet
and we go to a restaurant and people
they were eating separated and the
they cheered
It was awesome because in the village
everyone found out through
social networks and when we went back to
the children were being received with
food with music with applause with
joy was almost midnight with rockets
and I did not play or any soccer team
they were children readers
I used to laugh because people
he was asking we are going to film that he continues and
I want you to ask the g-20
churrascos in pula
everyone knows that the fair
International Book in Guatemala No
by ula to change by ula has changed
thanks to a network of volunteers that
is supporting
we started in the community today
we have a club of volunteer leaders
and community that amounts to 30
young people and children and for each of
we have 20 more volunteers
engaged in the city the day of
today we have volunteers here
professionals to volunteers
national internationals and people
that accompany us and also well and
our guys from the community
we have learned a lesson
very important the choice more
important thing that we learned is that
desire to learn and the desire to leave
forward they may be hanging from a
pine branch walk with rubber boots
get the broken sute that the urge to
learn can be fed with a glass
of oatmeal that all children have
started to know and to recognize that
they have the right to dream and food aa
future better
we have created a network of volunteers that
works for the benefit of our
community
now in the streets of the city the
Sundays we are receiving all the
useful October and November Sundays
school and people are made
work as solidarity and not as
charity
we discovered then that the
true heroes do not have
superpowers the true heroes what
they have is the desire and the drive of
overcome all adversities
I want to ask you please a round of applause
for future citizens 2.5 that I
accompany
ronnie sum please me and sulma have
been founders and have been vigilantes of
that all the programs are developed
in the community they were vulnerable children
to a youth without opportunities
we are achieving through
the reading that they learn to use
keys that open doors all
we bet on education
we are committed to reading and we are sure
that love is the greatest force that
can move things in the universe
we have achieved results
wonderful with children without
opportunities through giving them a
opportunity
many thanks
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his children
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