Summer Food Service Program
Mano en Mano and the Maine Migrant Education Program are participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all eligible children and youth free of charge. (To be eligible to receive free meals at a residential or nonresidential camp, children must meet the income guidelines for reduced-price meals in the National School Lunch Program. The income guidelines for reduced-price meals by family
Community Collaborations Lead to Successful Children’s Day Event
On April 25th, the Milbridge Public Library’s Navigator Group hosted El Día del Niño | Children’s Day (a popular traditional celebration in Mexico) for the whole community. With a number of games, activities like face painting, an iPad table, and an art table, piñatas, and raffles, the event drew a large crowd of families and many children. There was no charge for entry or food,
Waste, Composting, and Recycling: A Week of Exploration!
During the week of April vacation, a group of students with the Maine Migrant Education Program (MEP) participated in a host of activities geared toward learning more about and taking care of our Earth. MEP staff Bethany Woods and Ana Blagojevic planned a week-long program to engage students in hands-on projects and fun, educational trips while they were out of school. At the start of
Blueberry Harvest School Receives Excellence in Environmental Education Award
Maine Environmental Education Association Announces the 2015 Environmental Education Awards The Maine Environmental Education Association (MEEA) has announced the winners of its annual awards recognizing this year’s most outstanding environmental educator, school, business, student and environmental program in the state of Maine. MEEA presented these awards at its annual conference on March 20th. This year’s conference, “Better Together Maine: Partnerships, Collaboration, Collective Impact”, was
Milbridge Latino Community Members’ Voices Heard by State Legislators
“What is an immigrant? Tell me. Everyone in this room is an immigrant. This country was built from immigrants,” began Darrell Paine addressing a room full of 20 state legislators and 20 Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition (MIRC) members at the State House in Augusta. “We’re all united, we all come from one line, we’re all human, but have never been treated equally,” stated Juan
Milbridge Library Hosts First Winter Festival
The Milbridge Public Library hosted its first ever Winter Festival on February 21st, with a bilingual story reading of “A Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats, indoor and outdoor activities, hot chocolate and chocolate atole (a traditional hot beverage served in Mexico around the holidays). The event could not have taken place without the help of the ten community volunteers, who assisted with everything
New Grant Opportunity for Mano en Mano
Mano en Mano is pleased to announce that we are a grant recipient of the Lerner Foundation to continue building a relationship with the Milbridge Public Library to increase learning opportunities (with a particular focus on language accessibility) and get Latino community members more involved in programing. We are excited to be moving forward with this project, because we believe that the Latino families
Tutoring in the Trenches
When you think of tutoring, do you think of a teacher and student sitting quietly in a classroom or office or perhaps at a dining room table, going over some vocabulary or working on writing a letter or reading a passage from a book? This was more or less my experience over many, many years as a teacher and tutor to hundreds of English
Health Insurance in 2015
We are nearly to 2015 and a month into the second Open Enrollment period of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Here are a few recaps and reminders to keep in mind going forward. What is the ACA again? The Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, is an individual mandate signed into law in 2010 which states that starting in 2014, you must be
A Celebration of La Posada
We celebrated our 5th Annual Holiday Posada on December 13th at the EdGE Center in Cherryfield. A posada is a Mexican cultural tradition that takes place in December in the days leading up to Christmas. In context it means “hospitality” or a space to stay—welcoming friends in for a meal and festivities. While our interpretation in Maine is much different than the multi-evening festival in Mexico, the sentiment