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| Project Name: | EDUBASICO-Mobile school for Young Female Mayan Leaders |
| Project Description: |
CARE will set up a pilot project using the telesecondary model with 180 adolescents in remote rural villages where EDUBANCO currently operates and where there is no ciclo basico available. Through the proposed EDUBASICO Project, CARE will make available a three-year distance education program in order to allow these adolescents to complete school and earn their diplomas.
Through its distance education program, EDUBASICO will use educational videocassettes to allow adolescents to continue their studies through ninth grade. This activity is in line with the recent reforms of the Ministry of Education (MINEDUC), which promote the use of new educational media to help rural adolescents complete their junior high education. Since these schools will depend heavily on televised instruction, the project will hire one teacher with skills in telesecundaria to serve as tutor in the target communities. CARE will set up three telesecundaria centers in three selected communities to reach the target population of 90 adolescents during the first year. Each center will be equipped with a TV, a video-cassette player, the telesecundaria videos, and educational materials and manuals provided by MINEDUC. When the students complete ninth grade, they will receive a diploma signed by MINEDUC.
EDUBASICO will take place in the Municipality of Joyabaj, in El Quiche department. This area has some of the country's highest poverty levels as well as poorest educational opportunities for adolescents who have completed primary school. In El Quiche, 82 percent of the population lives in rural areas and 85 percent are indigenous groups. About two-thirds of the population is illiterate.
CARE Guatemala has gained extensive education experience in two projects that combine a micro-credit program for rural indigenous women with an education program directed to their daughters. The EDUBANCO education program has focused on primary education, which has been CARE's priority to date. However, the mothers have asked CARE to expand its program to include ciclo basico, which their children typically do not attend due to various reasons such as lack of resources and the distance to ciclo basico classes. |
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