Campaigns

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

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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