Education

SECTION 10

An alliance to learn

School dropout is a problem the region has faced for several decades, which has been accentuated by the pandemic. Around the world, children and young people have stopped attending schools, universities, and colleges because of Covid-19.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, almost all countries have decreed an educational quarantine and took measures to ensure that education remains outside or inside the classroom, but with preventive measures. In response to this problem, we provide support in this new context and facilitate continuity of learning in our communities.

Education

Good practices in Latin America and the Caribbean

CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank Because school isn't enough

Alongside CIBC FirstCaribbean International ComTrust Foundation, we have joined forces to strengthen the potential of children and young people, supporting their success and well-being in the Caribbean. This partnership allowed us to enhance our local Afterschool programs and provide a better response during the lockdown.

Despite the health emergency caused by Covid-19, we intensified our activities, serving more than 2,000 children and young people in Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Cayman Islands and Jamaica creating online tools and resources to stay connected, and also delivering care and basic food packages to the families that needed the most. In January, in collaboration with Y's Men International, we offered a two-day training in the Cayman Islands, for more than 120 local staff and volunteers. Through this project, fourteen (14) management and program staff from our movements in Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Haiti, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Trinidad and Tobago attended the training conference.

We are also currently developing two Afterschool initiatives in Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago, involving more than 400 vulnerable children and young people, which will strengthen their STEM skills, reading comprehension, sports, entrepreneurship, and employment skills. Since July, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc. (TWCF) project was launched to adapt and validate tools for measuring socio-emotional development in children and young people. We run this project in collaboration with the Hello Insight.

Y’s Men International Best educators for the community

Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc. Increasing our social impact

This adaptation and validation directly benefit our youth participants and our local YMCAs by allowing us to measure and evaluate program experiences in vulnerable communities, improving the knowledge we have about our participants and our programs; allowing us to offer better solutions adapted to their needs.