Hello Parents,
My name is Mary Ann Hecht. I teach children in kindergarten and have for the past 31, years. Kindergarten age children are amazing! I live in rural Lovington with my husband Bruce who is a graphic consultant with Huston Patterson Printers in Decatur. We have one daughter, Lisa who is an art teacher in the Lovington/Arthur district. She is married to John Bertetto the SHS biology teacher, track coach and assistant football coach. My husband is surrounded by teachers!
My goal with this website is to keep you informed about the things that your child is doing in school. I will try to update this website weekly. If you have trouble, please let me know. I am also planning on putting up lots of pictures.
For the ninth time my husband and I were fortunate to get to go with our church group to Laceibita Honduras. We have helped get their feeding center up and running. The center feeds 300 children one meal M-F. For some it is the only meal the children will get. Besides working on the feeding center we also have a Bible school for the children, work on their church, and build stoves for cooking. A typical home in LaCeibita is just one room with beds. The cooking area is usually behind the house and is open except for a roof to keep out the rain. Before the stoves the family would just cook over an open fire. The smoke would be in their faces and enter their sleeping area. Laceibita is a very poor place. It was established in 1998 after Hurricane Mitch came through Ceibita Honduras. Most of the people there came from Ceibita. The people there have nothing. Most live in mud or cinderblock homes. Their homes consist of sleeping rooms. Their cooking and laundry is all outside. While I was there I was able to visit the schools. School is not mandatory there and there is no funding. The schools have nothing either. They are a cinderblock building with a concrete floor. The children have a desk and they each have a spiral notebook and a pencil. That is all.
On another trip,we replaced a tin roof, painted, and tiled at the parsonage, built a wall to make one room into two in the feeding center, rewired the church and taught Bible school. We also were able to visit the schools and give the children crayons, pencils, watercolors, toothpaste, washcloths and toothbrushes. I visited the kindergartens! One teacher had 55 children and the other has 59! I will never complain about our class size! :-) In Honduras education is free but in order for a child to go to school they must have uniforms and school supplies which most can not afford. With the help of people in the Sullivan area we are sponsoring 77 children so they can attend school. We will be returning to Honduras in 2016!
My name is Mary Ann Hecht. I teach children in kindergarten and have for the past 31, years. Kindergarten age children are amazing! I live in rural Lovington with my husband Bruce who is a graphic consultant with Huston Patterson Printers in Decatur. We have one daughter, Lisa who is an art teacher in the Lovington/Arthur district. She is married to John Bertetto the SHS biology teacher, track coach and assistant football coach. My husband is surrounded by teachers!
My goal with this website is to keep you informed about the things that your child is doing in school. I will try to update this website weekly. If you have trouble, please let me know. I am also planning on putting up lots of pictures.
For the ninth time my husband and I were fortunate to get to go with our church group to Laceibita Honduras. We have helped get their feeding center up and running. The center feeds 300 children one meal M-F. For some it is the only meal the children will get. Besides working on the feeding center we also have a Bible school for the children, work on their church, and build stoves for cooking. A typical home in LaCeibita is just one room with beds. The cooking area is usually behind the house and is open except for a roof to keep out the rain. Before the stoves the family would just cook over an open fire. The smoke would be in their faces and enter their sleeping area. Laceibita is a very poor place. It was established in 1998 after Hurricane Mitch came through Ceibita Honduras. Most of the people there came from Ceibita. The people there have nothing. Most live in mud or cinderblock homes. Their homes consist of sleeping rooms. Their cooking and laundry is all outside. While I was there I was able to visit the schools. School is not mandatory there and there is no funding. The schools have nothing either. They are a cinderblock building with a concrete floor. The children have a desk and they each have a spiral notebook and a pencil. That is all.
On another trip,we replaced a tin roof, painted, and tiled at the parsonage, built a wall to make one room into two in the feeding center, rewired the church and taught Bible school. We also were able to visit the schools and give the children crayons, pencils, watercolors, toothpaste, washcloths and toothbrushes. I visited the kindergartens! One teacher had 55 children and the other has 59! I will never complain about our class size! :-) In Honduras education is free but in order for a child to go to school they must have uniforms and school supplies which most can not afford. With the help of people in the Sullivan area we are sponsoring 77 children so they can attend school. We will be returning to Honduras in 2016!