| The institution |
| Fe y Alegría is a comprehensive popular education and social development movement founded in 2009 with the aim of promoting the development of people living in poverty. More than 200 educators and technicians attend to 2,250 children in 20 schools across the country. Reaching U supports two of this organization's projects: the project Teen Alternatives at Don Bosco School and the School Scholarship project at San Adolfo School. |
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| The project |
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| Project name |
Teen Alternatives |
| Year started |
2010 |
| Location |
Manga Rural |
| Area of work |
Education |
| Beneficiaries in 2011 |
45 children |
| Start of support |
2010 |
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The Teen Alternatives project at Don Bosco School is aimed at adolescents aged 12-15 from socially vulnerable situations. This initiative includes academic tuition and training for job placement, and features 45 adolescents (25 who participated in 2010 and 20 who previously attended Don Bosco primary school). The project's aim is to ensure that teens stay in the education system when they finish school, by supporting and accompanying them during their education in high school. In this space, the students receive support in subjects they have difficulty with in high school, and workshops that complement their training such as screen printing, computer class, recreation and English.
The Don Bosco School students come from lower-middle and low income families. In general, these families are integrated in the labor market but with very low wages. The drop out rate of formal education is compounded by the demands of working parents, preventing them from providing adequate support for their children, owing to the lack of high schools in the area and the lack of coverage for transport costs. Students who drop out of formal education have no educational alternatives in the neighborhood, and can not be inserted into the labor market because they are minors. Therefore, many teens end up on the streets owing to lack of support and no real alternatives. |
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| Achievements with Reaching U's support ... |
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2010: financing for the Teen Alternatives at Don Bosco school for the first time, which benefited 30 adolescents. The results achieved were very good considering that all the teens successfully passed their grades and none dropped out.
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