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| Do³±czy³: 05 Mar 2024 |
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We have pointed out in depth the characteristics of mentoring in the article “Mentoring enhances the work of business foundations” that we published in Expok (February 27, 2012). There we said that this consists of the participation of people who donate their knowledge, skills and experiences to philanthropic organizations to train others, or in the case of philanthropic organizations, to contribute to the viability of their projects, enrich their services, save costs, give them greater visibility, improve their fundraising activities or, above all, support the organization's strategic tasks. Every mentor who, with his disposition, involvement and effective work donated without profit interest, leaves a deep mark on people or organizations. To endorse this statement, review this testimony that Carolina Amparan shared with us in Puerto Nuevo, in front of Rosarito, Baja California, a few days ago. During the primary education that Carola received in Torreón, Coahuila; She was enrolled in the Instituto Escuela Cervantes like her brothers. This educational institution was founded by Spanish republicans, many of them of Catalan origin. The school was directed for several decades by teacher Antonio Vigatá. Carola also remembers the teachers, Antonio Antolín Cecilio Palomares, Rodolfo Reyes, José Samprieto, Francisco Jacques, Pablo Farrús and Mario Aleixandre. The reader can delve into the history of the Cervantes Schools founded by Spanish migrants in the article “The Cervantes Board of Mexico and the provincial schools in the pedagogical exile of 1939”, written by José Ignacio Cruz Orozco and which can be consulted ( here) But it turns out that the teacher who most influenced Carola's training was Professor Ricardo Pons.
With deep and heartfelt Phone Number List emotion she narrates how she remembers those days and says that “today she still marvels that her influence endures.” She expresses that she was speechless by the way in which she taught her classes, since Pons filled them with humanism and Greco-Latin spirit. Don Ricardo made the complex simple and gave value to knowledge in a way that infected his students, awakening the desire to know more. Carola wonders how it is possible that a person, as a mentor to others through teaching, can remain alive for several decades in the thoughts and hearts of his students. In it Pons inherited his liberalism and humanist feeling and living. Carola remembers that Maestro Pons, as a teenager, fell onto the tracks on a train trip and lost a leg. Since then he used a prosthesis to walk. That accident never stopped him and he continued his life with gallantry, simplicity and willingness to help others. He was always clean, neat and good looking. During the Spanish civil war, Mtro. Pons was taken to a concentration camp in France and left on a boat, stopping at a port in Spain where they boarded several Republicans to make a stopover in Santo Domingo and finally arrive in Mexico as refugees. Carola points out that she lived in Torreón but then went to settle in other places to finally settle in Ciudad Juárez. After several decades she, along with her brothers, remembered Maestro Pons and through contact from a groupmate they learned that she was still living in Torreón.
Her brothers, motivated by the affection they felt for him and the nostalgia for Carola, went to look for him in the city of La Laguna. At first the search for Pons was fruitless and when discouragement was already present in the Amparan family, a coincidence led to their reunion, as the brothers entered a small inn to eat and return to Juárez. There fate brought them together and they restarted a friendship that would last until the Catalan's death. The Master Pons never married and although the idea of returning to Barcelona never left him, he died during the visit he made to his former students on November 20 in Ciudad Juárez precisely and in the company of the Amparáns. This testimony about the relevance of mentoring makes us reflect that any volunteer program can be enriched if the strategy includes people knowledgeable in different topics that serve the organization. In “Volunteering in civil organizations. Manual for effective management” we point out that there are different ways to be a volunteer in an organization: 1) provide service in programs, projects and services, 2) be a counselor or patron (whose influence is within the institution) and 3) incorporate to mentors to “fine-tune” their work and contributions by focusing their contribution on their area of experience. |
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