By Luis Fernando Sanabria | General Manager
Bolivian NGO will implement Paraguayan educational model
A cooperation agreement was signed with the Fundación Interamericana Nuevo Amanecer de Tarija (Bolivia) so that the self-sustaining school model created by Fundación Paraguaya can be replicated in the neighboring country. This interinstitutional alliance covers financial, technical and methodological cooperation.
After gathering information on the self-sustaining educational model through the website of Fundación Paraguaya and Teach a Man to Fish, this Bolivian organization concluded that implementing a training for youth in a vulnerable situation that is focused on “Learning by Doing, Selling and Earning” and on an “Education that pays for itself” would impact enormously on the lives of their students, preparing them for the job market by providing them with technical and leadership skills, as well as generating their own resources to support the school.
“The signing of this agreement is a new achievement for the program of Self-sustainable Schools because it gives us the possibility to continue exporting social technology to different latitudes and reinforces the success of our model, and also ensures its continuity and improvement,” says Solange Ríos, Self-sustaining Schools Project Coordinator of Fundación Paraguaya.
“It is very gratifying for us that the value of the educational model that we propose in Fundación Paraguaya is recognized. Above all, that, like us, other people believe that the model of self-sustainable education has a great capacity to impact and transform lives,” says Luis, Program Manager.
It is worth mentioning that students from Tarija (Bolivia) have traveled to Paraguay to study for three years and receive a double degree at the Cerrito Agricultural School, administered by Fundación Paraguaya.
The NUAM Foundation is a non-profit institution that is committed to an economically and environmentally more sustainable development model and socially more fair, so that they found in Fundación Paraguaya a school model that is similar to the ideals they pursue.
The signing of the agreement was held in Asuncion, at the main office of Fundación Paraguaya, being the signatories: its General Manager, Luis Fernando Sanabria, and Fabián Luis Arnold, of the Fundación Interamericana Nuevo Amanecer.
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