“AFTER SCHOOL: A SPACE FOR LEARNING”
Children's education workshops.

This project will allow 30 children, aged 4 to 6, to participate, throughout the school year and in a safe place, learning workshops at the School Las Palmas in Llay Llay. The students will attend four hours every day and will be assisted in developing both their socio-emotional and school abilities, as well as receiving needed snacks.

Fundación Acompañando Pasos (Supporting Steps Foundation), with its affiliate Fundación Padre Semería, who has an experience of 40 years in childhood topics, determined and created the program “After School”, after a research at the local level showed that 85% of children’s parents, guardians or caretakers do not have the possibility to be with them after school hours because of their long work schedule. This situation also concerns them in that it is affecting the children’s schoolwork.

This program, with no cost to the parents, promotes the integral development of children from 1st to 4th grade in elementary public schools, in localities of high social vulnerability and where parents cannot be with the children after school hours. Currently, the program is being offered to 180 children in six schools in the Metropolitan Region and in Region V, Valparaíso.

We will support this project with a contribution of US$4,000.