Education brochure 2018

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EDUCATION PROGRAM

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Who we are

We are a program of FUNDAP that was constituted in 1992, and is dedicated to the design, execution, and validation of projects and / or educational programs and professional technical training, which have the characteristics of relevance, innovation, and integrality, directed especially to the most vulnerable Guatemalan communities; to direct their own development through the local organization that allows them to believe in themselves and generate growth, respecting their values and decision-making power.

What we do

The program constitutes one of FUNDAP’s avenues for the promotion of development whose objective is: to promote the development of the people and their community, through the access and use of formal education and professional technical training programs. Our purpose is to help the underprivileged population, especially children, young people, and women, have access to training programs that contribute to their integral development. At the same time, we work with key community leaders so that, based on their organization, management, and leadership, they can promote educational actions for their population.

How we work

With the vision of serving different segments of the population and their needs, the Education Program has established two different lines of action: the community support sector for education, which seeks access to and permanence in basic education, strengthening local organization, updating and teaching qualification under the principles of access, quality, and equity; the sector of generation of capacities for the labor insertion, whose strategic axes are the competitive and high-level technical business training, the strengthening of entrepreneurial ideas, and education for work, in order to achieve a decent job for everyone.

Where we work

The Education Program focuses its initiatives in the regions of the central highlands, north and southwest of the country of Guatemala, serving both the urban area as well as rural ones.

The territory served covers an area of 34,374 km2, which represent 31.57% of the national territory.

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EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES

Scholarships for Girls

Educational Quality

Directs its efforts to reduce school atrition, especially of vulnerable girls and young women; which allows them to have better opportunities for development and improvement, both for themselves and for their families. The initiative includes extracurricular training and support for families to design and follow the path of their development.

Its purpose is to improve the atrition of children at school, the decrease in repetition rates, and the strengthening of the educational community; providing public schools with the pedagogical, technical and administrative inputs to achieve an improvement in educational quality.

ICEFAT

CIEM

The Institutes for Alternating Family Teaching Cooperatives are basic or diversified educational centers that, based on community participation, promote the training of young people of school age, enabling them to work, the development of the rural environment and the socio-professional insertion

These are Accelerated Comprehensive Training Centers and teaching centers, whose main purpose is to provide an educational service for young workers, who by virtue of personal and family circumstances linked to their socioeconomic and cultural status have left school. The general education is complemented with business training, whose objective is to generate conditions for labor insertion.

Business School This has the objective of transforming the business practices of micro-enterprises, so that they can be sustainable generating units of employment. It has two service methodologies: a) Impulsa, aimed at incipient businesses to generate good manufacturing and business practices in entrepreneurs; b) MBA is a transformative, demanding and rigorous model that seeks the development of leadership and management skills, leading to acceleration and business success.

Enterprise Development Centers Its objective is to contribute to the development or strengthening of occupational skills and abilities as a means for labor insertion. The programs are comprehensive including interpersonal, business, leadership, and technical issues. In order to meet the different needs of the population, there are two modalities: a) CEDES, itinerant training model; b) Technical Centers, physical facilities located in convergent cities with defined training workshops in different areas.

Results since 2000

865,169 aid provided through the Education Program.

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Results in 2017

36,178 Installed capability for labor insertion Sector

Community educational support Sector

Busniess School MBA & Impulsa

Scholarships for Girls

Promotion of Educational Quality in rural schools Promotion of rural entrepreneurship and local development

Entrepreneurial Development Centers CEDES & Centro TĂŠcnico (Dely Gourmet, Tecnicentro Los Altos, El Refugio)

Integral training centers for adults CIEM

High-level business technical training

Access to basic education (kindergarten, elementary school, high school)

Strengthening of entrepreneurial ideas

Strengthening of the local community organization

Strengthening of local economy

Training and qualification of teachers

Education for labor insertion

people were served through the Education Program in 10 departments of Guatemala, of which 58.5% are women.

2,771

vulnerable girls and young women were assisted in the Scholarship for the Girl project, emphasizing that 96% of them will complete the program satisfactorily.

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rural educational centers (26 institutes per cooperative and 99 primary schools) were strengthened in community education processes.

3,154

people acquired or strengthened labor and technical skills, which enables them to start an economic activity and / or enter the labor market.

727

micro-enterprises of different sizes were assisted through the Business School.

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young people finished their secondary education through accelerated programs and maturity based programs.

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collaborators comprise the Education Program team.