{"id":131346,"date":"2020-04-26T15:34:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T18:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missoeshumanitarias.org\/learn-by-doing\/"},"modified":"2020-04-26T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T18:34:03","slug":"learn-by-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missoeshumanitarias.org\/en\/learn-by-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn by Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In a playful way, through carpentry and agroecology, indigenous children and youths acquire new abilities.<\/p>\n

While they wait for the educational agroecology project to resume, the young natives of the Pintol\u00e2ndia Shelter, in Roraima, reinforce their ability in basic carpentry activities. They helped in the construction of a gate to protect the vegetable garden and are currently contributing in the building of supports for the gallons of water stored in the jerrycans used to disinfect the areas, a need that emerged from the demands for care with the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

Friar Antonio Jazmin, a monk and missionary of the\u00a0Fraternity \u2013 International Humanitarian Federation (FIHF)<\/a><\/strong>, and responsible for the activities, explains that in all the process of construction, there are several skills that are being integrated, such as learning to count, to measure centimeters and meters, to add and subtract. The children experience ideas about abstract thought, spatial awareness, symmetry, volumes (height, length, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, perpendicular, etc.). They also experience their fine motor skills, among other abilities.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDuring the activity, the young people are encouraged in positive habits such as order, cleanliness, concentration, precautions, responsibility, respectful relationship with others and with themselves,\u201d emphasizes the Friar.<\/p>\n

While the young people do carpentry work, the little children attentively observe each detail and take in the rich experiences through observation.<\/p>\n

Friar Antonio Jazmin highlights that simple activities such as these are important, because their real value is in the transcendence. \u201cWe do not focus our activities only on the final result, which is the building itself, but rather in all the experience had during the process. We dedicate ourselves to having each participant feel themselves stimulated, valued, capable, with no judgments.\u201d<\/p>\n