Areas of Focus: Basic education and literacy, Community economic development
The Indigenous School for Integrated Rural Development located in La Libertad Petén opened in 2019 with 100 students using resources from the Guatemalan Ministry of Education and is operated by the Mayan indigenous organization ACDIP. Their goal is to reach 300 boarding students by the end of 2012. The school specializes in identifying at-risk out of school you and incorporating them into an appropriate learning environment. At the school poor rural indigenous girls and boys learn the skills they need to get good jobs related to conservation, sustainable community development, disaster risk reduction, sustainable agriculture and municipal management. Students are also taught small business skills through courses in entrepreneurial studies, small business regulation and financial management. The motto of the students is "yo me quedo" or "I'm staying" in English, as a response to the trend for many of their friends to attempt illegal migration to the US to find work. Students proudly wear t-shirts with the saying #YOMEQUEDO, I'm the future of Guatemala and Guatemala is my future.
The area served by the school has very high rates of poverty and malnutrition, and early forced marriage. In 2018 almost 500 girls (from area villages) between 10 and 14 years of age gave birth.
Due to repeated droughts and subsequent crop failures an ever-increasing amount of the area's young men are, out of desperation, attempting illegal migration to the United States.
Under request from ACDIP, the Ak' Tenamit association is providing ongoing technical support to transfer its highly successful "education for employment" methodology.
For the 2020-2021 school year the "Indigenous School for Integrated Rural Development" hopes to house up to 300 boarding students.
The school is co-administered by Association Ak' Tenamit, a Guatemalan indigenous owned and operated organization that has 30 years experience providing vocational education for at-risk youth. Ak' Tenamit's highly successful work-based training methodology has achieved the highest employment rate of any vocational school in the country, 10 times the national average.
This Global Grant will help equip this growing school with bunkbeds, school desks and furniture, vocational training equipment and a computer lab.
Dropped
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Project listed for the 2019-20 Rotary Year.
The TRF Grant application number is #2010765.
Proposed Financing
Existing Contributions Towards This Project
Date
Cash
DDF
Total
Cross Timbers, Flower Mound (5790)
10-Jul-19
$7,000
$23,750
$30,750
Tikal Petén (4250)
28-May-20
$500
$0
$500
Flower Mound (5790)
28-May-20
$4,000
$0
$4,000
Graham (5790)
28-May-20
$1,000
$0
$1,000
Denton Evening (5790)
28-May-20
$500
$0
$500
Glenview-Sunrise (6440)
29-Aug-20
$2,704
$0
$2,704
Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation
$7,852
$23,750
$31,602
Total
$71,056
DDF contributions in grey are pending approval of the corresponding district committee.
Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.
