{"id":8117,"date":"2025-05-19T11:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fraternidadmedellin.org\/?post_type=eventos&#038;p=8117"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:22:21","slug":"mayo-un-mes-para-celebrar-a-los-maestros","status":"publish","type":"eventos","link":"https:\/\/fraternidadmedellin.org\/en\/eventos\/mayo-un-mes-para-celebrar-a-los-maestros\/","title":{"rendered":"May: A Month to Celebrate Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\"Education is a journey that begins in the classroom<br>but continues throughout life.\"<br>Catherine Pulsifer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Astrid Katernine Su\u00e1rez Parra always dreamed of becoming a teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her mother recalls that, from a very young age, she would wear her kitchen apron and carefully arrange her dolls to teach them lessons on different subjects. Using a chalkboard, she took notes, planned activities, and shared everything she was learning at school. As the years went by, her dream grew stronger. Thanks to the training she received at the Normal Superior de Mar\u00eda in the municipality of Rionegro, it began to come true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her first job was at Colegio Campestre El Maestro, where she fell in love with the profession. The bond and shared responsibility with children and their families\u2014the threads woven between students and teachers\u2014and the realization that school is much more than a place to learn math confirmed that this was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, 20 years later, she is a teacher at Instituci\u00f3n Educativa Rural Chaparral in the municipality of San Vicente Ferrer. For Astrid, the best part of being a teacher is the opportunity to connect daily and directly with the human spirit. To offer not only lessons, but words of encouragement. To help students see life from a different perspective. To inspire them to believe they deserve a bright future. To convince them that education is worth pursuing and that it leads to a meaningful life project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In conversation, she fondly remembers her math teacher, Belquis Londo\u00f1o:\n\"She was an inspiration to me. Today, I would like to tell her that some students carry her in their hearts. I didn\u2019t just learn numbers from her. I also learned about high standards, service, humility, and love.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Astrid is one of the 2,500 teachers who are part of the educational institutions supported by Fraternidad Medell\u00edn. Teachers who bring with them backpacks full of knowledge, patience, empathy, humanity, service, love, discipline, and integrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Today, at Fraternidad Medell\u00edn, we want to pay special tribute to all of them and say: Thank you!\nYour work elevates our mission and fills the present and future of every child, youth, and adult whose life you touch with hope.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLa educaci\u00f3n es un viaje que empieza en el aulapero que contin\u00faa a lo largo de toda la vida\u201d.Catherine Pulsifer Astrid Katernine Su\u00e1rez Parra siempre so\u00f1\u00f3 con ser maestra. Cuenta su mam\u00e1 que, desde muy peque\u00f1a, se pon\u00eda su delantal de cocina y organizaba a sus mu\u00f1ecos cuidadosamente para darles lecciones de distintos temas. 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