Fe y Alegría Radio Institutes IRFAS The Fe y Alegría Radio Institutes, known as IRFA, offer a dual education model for youth and adults, men and women, using the teaching methodology—learning ECCA, which adapts to the situation and reality of each country and is based on three elements: module or print, radio classes and tutorials.
Thus, the beneficiaries have adequate educational opportunity for their needs and preferences. It is expected that the project will enroll 148 people in Bolivia, 62 people in Peru, 153 people in Venezuela and 60 people in Paraguay.
They also offer radio services through educational radio stations, which contribute to the overall education of the beneficiaries and to social promotion. This program is present in Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.
Ivan Gabrieli, I am a high school graduate thanks to IRFA, Peru
The goal, as already suggested, is to promote a popular and inclusive quality education which embraces diversity, contributes to the integral development of individuals and community social promotion to finally promote the formation of free subjects and active citizens with critical awareness, knowledge, skills and values that can influence the improvement of their quality of life and the transformation of their environment.
Projects: Currently the program runs the project “Distance learning, partially in-person and via the radio, for youth and adults in contexts of deprivation of liberty.” The project is designed to strengthen, develop and implement education programs for adolescents, young adults, men and women, in the contexts of prisons and rehabilitation centers for adolescents. The project currently takes place in Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.
Ivan Gabrieli Gamarra was born in Lima, is 34-yearsold, is the eldest son of a family of five children and is currently detained at the ANCON II LIMA Prison. He has been in IRFA Peru’s Learning at Home project for three years.
What is Fe y Alegría to you, Ivan? “Fe y Alegría to me, like many of my fellow inmates in this prison, is an opportunity to be able to finish our primary and secondary educations; in my case, thanks to Fe y Alegría I was able to finish my secondary education. Fe y Alegría has also made it possible to do other things within jail: to interact with other people, to meet the teachers and to take advantage of what they teach us. I value very much what our teachers do. They make a big effort and sacrifice to move this program forward. Thanks to their teaching, we have all realized that despite our mistakes we can change and we can be different: we no longer have to be a bad element of society, thanks to studying we are able to do positive things.
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