tached to students with disabilities and their
families, and educators who were not prepared
to teach children with disabilities.
Together with Schools for Children of the
World (SCW) and Heart to Honduras, we began providing educational assessments and
teacher/parent training on educating students
with disabilities. Over the last two years, we
(SCW, the mayor of Santa Cruz de Yojoa, the
Director of Education, and the doctor of that village) have been working together to establish a
resource center where children can receive the
services they need in order to join the other
children in the classroom and teachers can receive the training they need to work with all students.
We realized that by adding the
service aspect of education to SCW,
a school facility planning group, we
would be facilitating change in more
than a local Honduran community
and foreign education system; we
would be adjusting the typical
operating process of SCW. We were
attempting to establish an organization
(CIPIE) within a Honduran community
(Santa Cruzde Yojoa) within a North American
non-profit organization (SCW). This was no
small feat. The words that were spoken from
the small shack in the mountains of a rural village in Honduras
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