“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.

"FEN-ESCUELA DESARROLLO DE TALENTO"
Becas de apoyo académico.

La FCA continúa su alianza, una década al día de hoy, con la Facultad de Economía y Negocios (FEN) de la Universidad de Chile, apoyando estudiantes de los últimos dos años de Enseñanza Media en su preparación para estudios superiores. Ellos fueron seleccionados por sus credenciales escolares y potencial académico, de colegios que destacan por un índice de vulnerabilidad escolar de 75% o superior que refleja tanto las condiciones de extrema pobreza del estudiantado como el porcentaje de alumnos con riesgo de fracaso escolar.

FEN-EDT selecciona anualmente 80 estudiantes de 3o Medio, de 30 colegios, preferentemente técnico-profesionales, en Santiago, Aysén, Viña del Mar y Lautaro. Desde su inicio en 2014 al año 2023, más de 100 egresados de este programa han completado su título en distintas universidades e iniciado su carrera profesional.

Juan Pablo Villagra, quien se graduó el 2019 de la EDT y actualmente cursa la carrera de Contador Auditor en la UdeChile testimonia: “Venía de un colegio de Pudahuel donde yo ya estaba entre los mejores estudiantes. En ese punto la EDT potenció mi aprendizaje y mi nivel, y también, me ayudó a conocer diferentes personas. Estoy en el 3er año de carrera y no se me ha hecho tan pesado, en parte por la EDT, porque no solo me preparó, sino que me ayudó también a gestionar el estrés y qué hacer ante las dificultades”.

La FCA apoyará este exitoso programa de la FEN con una contribución de $5.500 de su fondo general.

“STRENGHTHENING SELF-ESTEEM”
For girls and adolescents.

This project will benefit a group of 15 girls and adolescents who live under the protection of the state in Santiago. In their short lives their rights have been gravely violated, which has impacted in their growth and in facing the emotional challenges associated with their environment in the shelter and for their future as women.

Fundación Niñas Valientes (Brave Girls) is a nonprofit organization that works towards building gender equity from childhood to adulthood through education and the construction of a violent-free atmosphere where the children play the main role. Their work responds to a researched results from different regions in Chile where women, from a very early age, are raised under gender preconceptions that will, eventually, affect their potential for a better future as grown women.

The adolescents will be led throughout six months by a specialized team who will provide the tools to strengthen their self-esteem and resilience through modules on various topics. They will participate in group and individual, didactic and ludic activities, such as games to identify what is a stereotype, personal value, peer support, self-acceptance and other topics, followed by a period of personal reflection and work.

The Chilean-American Foundation will contribute US$4,000 for this project.