"FEN-SCHOOL OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT"
Scholarships for academic support.

The CAF continues its alliance, a decade-long today, with the School of Economics and Business (FEN) of the University of Chile supporting students in their last years of high school to prepare them for superior education. They were selected based on their school performance and academic potential, from schools where the school vulnerability index is 75% or above, which reflects both the extreme poverty condition of their students as well as the percentage risk of school failure.

FEN-EDT selects every year 80 students from 30 schools, preferably technical-vocational high schools, in Santiago, Aysén, Viña del Mar and Lautaro.  Since 2014 to 2023, more than 100 graduates from this program have completed their degree in different universities and have started their professional career.

Juan Pablo Villagra, who graduated with the EDT's generation of 2019 and is currently studying Auditing-Accounting at University of Chile, says: “I came from a school in Pudahuel [RM] where I was already among the best students. At that point EDT strengthened my learning and my academic level, and they also helped me meet interesting people. I am on the third year of my career and it has not been difficult, partly because of EDT, because it not only prepared me academically, but it also guided me to handle stress and how to face my challenges”.

The Foundation will support this successful program with a contribution of $5,500 from its general fund.