Mano en Mano Open House Celebration, September 12th!
You are invited! Please join us at our Open House on Wednesday, September 12th, from 3:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., for a house-warming event and celebration for our new building. We will have tours every hour, beginning at 4:00, with refreshments and activities all evening. Bring your friends and family! Our new location is at 2 Maple Street in Milbridge, formerly the WHCA
Kids Love Mano en Mano’s First Soccer Camp!
This July, Mano en Mano ran its first soccer clinic for children ages 3-10! The idea grew out of a desire to have a community activity for kids during the summer, because there aren’t camps or accessible activities for young kids in our rural county. We had learned from our Community Needs Assessment that many families and clients desired more for their children to do for
Mano en Mano Joins MaineShare
Mano en Mano | Hand in Hand is pleased to announce our new membership with MaineShare! MaineShare offers easy, one-stop giving for Maine businesses and their employees to support over 40 statewide organizations, like Mano en Mano, that work for a clean, healthy, and prosperous Maine. Through payroll giving contributions and direct gifts, donors help Maine organizations with a steady flow of dollars to
Congratulations to Scholarship Recipient Maria Paniagua!
We are so pleased to announce Maria Paniagua of Milbridge as the recipient of our 2012 Latino Scholarship! This Scholarship grants $1,000 for the 2012-2013 academic year, and is renewable for the three more years that Maria will be an undergraduate. Maria just graduated on June 8th from Narraguagus High School, and will begin her freshman year at the University of Southern Maine in
Mano en Mano Celebrates Pilot iPad Project
A celebration with parents and children this past Saturday marked the conclusion of a 5-month pilot program at Mano en Mano called Comienza en Casa (“It Starts at Home”), a family literacy project supporting preschool and Kindergarten children’s early learning and integrating the use of an iPad in the home. Developed by our Migrant Education Coordinator Ana Blagojevic in partnership with early childhood education
Washington County Migrant Education Students Receive Diplomas
As the Orange River Jazz Band played and the graduates marched down the hill to begin the Cobscook Community Learning Center’s (CCLC) Graduation Ceremony, a pair of eagles circled slowly overhead, special witnesses to a special occasion: a celebration for the graduates of four alternative diploma programs in Washington County. Despite the disruptions to education that Migrant Education students face, 100% of the migrant
Maine Community Foundation’s People of Color Fund Awards $7,500 Grant for ESL
Mano en Mano recently received a $7,500 grant from the People of Color Fund of the Maine Community Foundation to support an AmeriCorps member position in our ESL Program, beginning this Fall. An AmeriCorps member will be assigned to help provide educational assistance to ESL students in MSAD #37 who are primarily Latino. This newly funded position will allow more one-on-one attention and tutoring
6th Annual Mother’s Day Event a Big Success!
Our 6th Annual Mother’s Day Celebration this year was an incredible success. This past Saturday evening, over 150 community members poured into the Town Hall in Milbridge — first partaking in a community potluck, and later on enjoying a program filled with numbers to honor mothers and celebrate Mother’s Day (also know as El Día de las Madres in Spanish). A slideshow was projected
Nutrition and Healthy Eating
Mano en Mano had a full house last Wednesday evening, March 21st. We hosted a monthly potluck at our office, coupled with a presentation on nutrition and eating well. Dorice Timko, of the U. Maine Cooperative Extension in Machias worked with us do host a talk to community members about what nutrition and eating right really means. Over 30 people packed in to listen
Mano en Mano Hosts Educational Talk for Teens
On March 14th for the first time, we hosted an educational charla (lecture/workshop)for ten high school teens, the first in a series of charlas about health education. A local nurse practitioner, Beth Russet, volunteered to teach the series of 3 classes to the teens in Spanish during March and April. The class was held in Mano en Mano office, and following a short video clip the group got