Rural Education Network in Peru

Impact

• Students in four rural areas across Peru will receive meaningful and life-demanding skills, in order fully incorporate to the community and to the market.
• Parents are incorporated to the educative process, and are consider knowledgeable actors.
• Continuum process of training rural teachers as a way to incentive their performance.

Background Information

During its 42 years of experience Fe y Alegría Peru has launched 70 schools in marginal urban neighborhoods and impoverished rural areas, and 119 rural schools, which serves the needs of more than 78,300 children and young people in different educational levels, 50,000 parents, and 3,700 teachers and administrative staff.

Fe y Alegría works in direct collaboration with the Peruvian State, which heavily contributes with the teachers salaries. They work with 36 religious congregations and a team of committed laity, which jointly assume the leadership of the schools, and also benefit from the vital participation of the families and communities.

Project Description

Schools in rural Peru have disadvantages: a teacher has to teach various grades simultaneously, children are malnourished and have health problems, and their homes do not have basic services. Therefore the project will work holistically in four areas: parents' instruction, teacher training, improving educational infrastructure and job training and productivity.

FyA rural schools must train students to improve their capabilities and efficiently enter the productive life of their community, while preserving their traditional practices and incorporating modern technology with responsible management. To that end, it seeks to consolidate the effort that has been developed in the networks through the implementation of Agro Ecological Systems School, as well as workshops for garment industry and carpentry.

Cost of the Project

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