In the Tilata neighbourhood, outside of the city of El Alto, Alma supports the Sariry Foundation, a small organization (we are one of only three supporters of Sariry) that cares for the educational and personal development of 500 children who live in the area. The Sariry Foundation works with at-risk youths in their own classrooms […]
It is estimated that in Bolivia there are approximately 800,000 children living in the streets: boys, girls, and teenagers who have partially or totally broken with their family ties and who live – in the absolute sense of the word – in the streets. The Alalay Foundation, a Bolivian charity has been working with this […]
The Library Kallpanchis is a long-running project set up by the community of Villa Maria in the Northern suburbs of the city of Cusco and the organization HoPe (Holanda-Perú). It started when a group of young people from the community won a box of books in a dance competition in 2006 and decided to start […]
Only 4% of children with disabilities in Cusco receive a formal education. Manos Unidas is a registered Peruvian Non-Profit Organization that founded the first and only private/non-for-profit school for Special Education in Cusco, el “Centro de Educacion Basica Especial Particular “Camino Nuevo” in 2009. Manos Unida’s mission is to maximize the abilities and potential of […]
The community of Tuksa is located at an altitude of 4,000 meters above sea level, in the province of Canchis. It is a very remote community, isolated to the point that the community has little contact with the outside world. They have no telephone service and most of the people there do not speak Spanish. […]
Quihares, Huaninpampa, and Colcha each have a CRFA (Centro Rural de Formación en Alternancia) school. These schools overcome the large distances students must travel from their respective communities to study at the secondary level by working in shifts. For 15 days, two or three grades will live at the school and attend daily classes while […]
El Manguaré was founded in 2009 with the mission to better the quality of life of children in the most vulnerable neighbourhoods of the city of Iquitos. Iquitos is the capital city of the region of Loreto (Amazon jungle region), which is the poorest performing region in Peru in reading comprehension and mathematical reasoning. There […]
The “Biblioteca” project is built around the idea that education is not a single trajectory between a defined starting and ending point, but a more fluid orientation with varying starting and ending points depending on the strengths and interests of each individual student. Though the case can be made for the need of standardized education […]
The Asociación La Restinga works towards the improvement of educational quality and graduation rates in the Belen neighbourhood of Iquitos, Peru. Each year the project runs seven teacher training workshops, weekly classroom evaluations, weekly student academic reinforcement workshops (two times per week, lasting three hours each), and four parent workshops. The hired teachers also visit the […]
The Alma Foundation works in many communities and with various academic levels (pre-school, primary, and secondary) within the region of Cusco. In all of these communities, the children we work with live in situations of extreme economic poverty. Through our projects, we have worked with students who grow into young men and women with the […]
As defined by the OECD, “the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students.” In the OECD’s most recent PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) exam, given in 2012, Peru ranked last of the participating 65 […]
As defined by the OECD, “the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students.” In the OECD’s most recent PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) exam, given in 2012, Peru ranked last of the participating 65 […]
The “Biblioteca” project in Huadhua aims to improve the community’s 29 primary school students’ educational performance by offering reinforcement workshops in the afternoon. The workshops will take advantage of working outside of regular school hours by complementing the more formal education students receive in the classroom with a fun, creative, and flexible model reinforcing reading […]
Teacher training is crucial to the success of our programs. Teachers in Bolivia are not taught how to implement a curriculum based on play and projects. They are not taught how to allow for and nurture critical thinking. In short, while we choose our teachers very carefully (usually recent graduates of arts teaching schools) and […]
As defined by the OECD, “the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students.” In the OECD’s most recent PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) exam, given in 2012, Peru ranked last of the participating 65 […]
As defined by the OECD, “the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students.” In the OECD’s most recent PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) exam, given in 2012, Peru ranked last of the participating 65 […]
Ethnobotanist, Wade Davis, says “a language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules…Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.” The Sirionó people are one of Bolivia’s 36 recognized ethnic groups. They live in the Beni region of the Bolivian Amazon in and around two central communities: Pata […]
Las Palmeras has always been a slightly different project. When we were first invited to the community, the problem was that they did not have a school and either had to send them to a faraway population center or not send them to school at all. So at first the community, with municipal assistance, built […]
San Martin de Porres is a very isolated community in the San Andres district of the amazon region of Bolivia. San Martin consists of 25 families whose main economic activities are subsistence agriculture and fishing. There is no access to running water or electricity. In this community we created an education reinforcement program to bring […]
Alma is happy to start the new academic reinforcement project San Jose de Paranapura. As defined by the OECD, “the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students.” In the OECD’s most recent PISA (Programme for […]