"EFIES IN THE NINTH REGION OF LA ARAUCANÍA"
Preparation to university.

This program of Corporation Formando Chile, a non-profit organization established in Santiago, will allow us to support students in 3rd and 4th grade of secondary schools in La Araucanía to prepare access to a university. They all come from public schools with an index of socio-economic vulnerability above 80%.

The Escuela de Formación para el Ingreso Superior (EFIES) in the IX Region will assist 250 students from 16 communities in La Araucanía at the campuses in Temuco of the Autonomous University and the Santo Tomás University, free-of-cost for them. The students will have every Saturday of the school year classes on math, language, talents and career exploration, conferences and parents’ meetings on university curriculum and scholarships.

The experience of Formando Chile shows an 84% success in the acceptance to university of these students, especially of those who work throughout the last two years of secondary school.

The CAF contributed $4.500 to this project.