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Youth Leadership Campaign

Purpose: Ensure that youth in Santa Marta and Suchitoto, El Salvador can complete high school; help them access opportunities for vocational training or higher education; and encourage them to be committed leaders in their communities.

Goals:

  • Funding for youth in rural communities to commute to high school in Suchitoto (average cost is $350 per student per year for registration fees, transportation, books, etc…)
  • Funding for Santa Marta High School (estimated 100 youth per year attending. Average cost is $500 per student per year)
  • Scholarships for exemplary youth to have opportunities for training and higher education (estimated 10 youth per year attending. Average cost is $1,600 per student per year)
  • Grants for community projects involving youth leadership

Santa Marta Computer Center

Achieved Objectives:

  • Provide Youth in Santa Marta with Free Computer Training
  • Provide the Center with at least 20 working computers
  • Connect Center to Internet
  • Provide means for interactive virtual exchanges between the Center & groups in the U.S.
  • Support the Administration of the school
  • Educate people in the U.S. about the realities in El Salvador and the lack of access to technology in a world ever more globalized
  • Support Teacher to keep Center opened
  • Work towards self-sustainability

Remaining Objectives:

  • Get paid position for instructor from the EDUCO program
  • Be able to provide high school technical degree
  • Get INSAFORP funding

 

 
 
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