Educación


Education	Working with Barceló Foundation	Voluntary Service	Projects

Education has become a priority activity for the Barceló Foundation, through an awareness that it is a key factor in the development of the global village and in the knowledge society.

The Barceló Foundation has marked out four priorities within the field of education:

1. Extending the shortfalls in educational coverage found in developing countries with serious structural problems in this sphere.

2. Enhancing the quality of education in those countries to bring it up to international standards and parameters through providing training for teachers pursuing their profession in those countries, the training being given by Spanish teachers sent out for the purpose.

3. Providing, as far as possible, the teaching materials that are essential to enable educational work to be pursued at an acceptable level in the most impoverished areas.

4. Helping in eradicating illiteracy to the greatest possible extent.

The difference in levels of knowledge is the most significant factor in the growing gap between industrialised countries and developing countries.

Our aim here at Barceló Foundation is to “educate for change” in those countries, the watchword being “learning to learn” – a task that involves not so much learning solutions for problems as giving people the capacity to solve their problems by themselves, which is the most important factor.

At Barceló Foundation we are grateful for all help from people who feel concerned and find our projects of interest.
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If you are an education professional or have experience in the field of education, please do not hesitate to send us your CV or to get in touch with the Barceló Foundation.

If you have a project of some kind relating to education, you are invited to present it to the Barceló Foundation.

Here are some examples of the educational projects run by the Barceló Foundation:

Project for a School – Day Centre in Cali, Colombia.

Contributing to the revamping of the Cristo Obrero school as the "Ciutat de Palma" Home for mistreated girls in Nicaragua.

Contributing to the creation of the Teaching Centre (Central Didáctica) as part of the integrated development of the Centre for Basic Community Services in Chamalecón, San Pedro de Sula, in Honduras.

Repairing the roof of the Mahidio Workshop School in Kamina in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Refurbishing and improving the girls’ boarding school of the Cánsense Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Contributing to the creation of the “Tagua” Vocational Skills Centre for Women in Panama.

Modernising 8 primary schools in Wema, Kenya.

Building a schoolchildren’s dining hall in Colombia.

Assisting the Rotating Skills-Enhancement Units for Women (Unidades Rotativas de Capacitación para Mujeres) in Guatemala.

Repair work on the Kamina School in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Access to secondary education in Niassa, Mozambique.

Contributing to the project for Tourism Training for Young People in Guatemala.

Participating in the Organisational Improvement of Urban Districts in Managua, Nicaragua.

Skills enhancement for 300 women in Ecuador.