A wonderful program that helps immigrant mothers and young children. They started with 3 families and now have over 700 enrolled. - - Donna Poisl
Posted by Maureen Sieh /The Post-Standard
Syracuse, NY.----In 1985, Theresa Pagano quit her job as a Spanish teacher at Liverpool High School to care for her three young children. It didn't take long before she found a way to balance family life and her love for teaching.
Three years later, Theresa started MANOS, an informal early childhood development program for Spanish-speaking mothers and their children. The name derives in part from madres and ninos, which in Spanish, means mothers and children.(MANOS, in Spanish means hands).
Theresa started the program after she noticed that Hispanic mothers on Syracuse's Near West Side were not enrolling their children in early childhood programs. They either didn't know about those programs or the significance of such programs.
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