We started a summer program for the children in the Mary Open Doors domestic violence program with the help of two other NGOs: ProBelize that is part of ProWorld and the Cornerstone Foundation. The goal is for this to be a permanent program giving mothers the opportunity and time to seek housing and jobs and for some to become certified day care providers and eventually becoming a microenterprise that provides financial support to women and income to Mary Open Doors. The summer program has been awesome: started by 4 University of North Carolina students who figured out how to do amazing science, math, games with virtually no budget. The children had never seen anything quite like this before. It has continued in August with the help of two Belizean primary school teachers who brought wonderful resources and training and will end with two weeks of volunteers from the U.S.
