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Liceo Jubilar |
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| Project name |
Scholarships |
| Year started |
2002 |
| Location |
Casavalle, Montevideo |
| Area of work |
Education |
| Beneficiaries in 2011 |
210 children |
| Start of support |
2007 |
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| The institution |
Liceo Jubilar Juan Pablo II is a free privately-managed high school operating since 2002 in the Casavalle neighborhood of Montevideo. It provides comprehensive education to over 150 children and 95 adults, combining formal schooling with other enriching tuition in study skills, IT, adolescent concerns and library. The high school has achieved its educational goals and has become a model for other schools in Uruguay. The dropout rate is 0%, compared with 25% in public high schools. Furthermore, the repetition rate is 0% and the average student grades have been rapidly increasing.
This school is located in Casavalle, a neighborhood where 79% of the population lives below the poverty line and 70% of people aged between 17 and 65 did not complete third grade of junior school (required by law,) according to the report "Results of neighborhood social inclusion and exclusion in Montevideo", Montevideo Social Inclusion Observatory Montevideo 2004. The number of homeless children is increasing, and social problems such as substance abuse, pregnancy and crime are common among adolescents. |
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| The project |
| For the fifth consecutive year Reaching U is supporting the Liceo Jubilar project with scholarships and funding for high school tuition for students who have graduated from the basic cycle. In 2009, the Uruguayan Ministry of Economy approved a project by Liceo Jubilar where 25% of the donations to that institution will be tax deductible in Uruguay. |
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| Achievements with Reaching U's support ... |
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2010: scholarships to 23 high school students to receive comprehensive, quality education, and finance the beautician workshop.
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2009: scholarships for 22 high school students, funding for vocational training workshops, funding to raise levels of teachers' salaries and donation of books to the library.
- 2008: scholarships for 12 high school students. 80% of graduates from the basic cycle of Liceo Jubilar continue their secondary school studies at another institution and there are graduates already at college. Funding for a beautician course for 15 teens, achieving significant gains in the self-esteem of the young women. They currently run the Jubilar Hair Salon where their companions and some mothers offer themselves as models.
- 2007: funding for five high school scholarships, beautician courses, textbooks and gardening project.
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