By Luis Fernando Sanabria | General Manager
In December 2018, 86 students total graduated from the 3 Paraguayan schools implementing the Financially Self-Sustainable School model. These schools, the Belen Agricultural School, the San Pedro Agricultural School and the Cerrito Agricultural School, work hard to receive diplomas as technicians in agriculture; at Cerrito Agricultural School they receive an additional diploma in Hospitality and Tourism.
"They entered as peasant children, now they graduate as leaders and rural entrepreneurs," said Martin Burt, the Director of Fundación Paraguaya, present at the event in Belén. The students studied for three years under the model of self-sustainable education (innovated by Fundación Paraguaya), and upon graduation, they leave with the necessary tools to become rural entrepreneurs, or on the other hand, continue with their studies to effectively be good people for their community.
The graduates learned practical, technical skills through different productive units, such as the vegetable garden, animal production, and a hotel and catering experience in the case of Belén and Cerrito, with 50% of practical classes and 50% theoretical/academic classes. The new graduates presented, as part of their culmination, a business plan and received, to implement them, a line of credit from the Fundación Paraguaya. The students of these schools graduate with the necessary tools to start a business, work in the fields with their families, or, according to their motivations, continue studying.
Congratulations to the class of 2018!
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