Children and Youths Out of School

One of the most challenging in the field of education!

After thirty years of transforming lives through education, they offer Reentry Programs to help at-risk populations regain their educational trajectories, enabling them to complete their primary and secondary education and prepare for the future.

The impact of the annual SUMATE in 2023 is reflected in 10 social programs serving over 1,650 vulnerable children/youth, divided into 705 from reentry school programs, 818 from socio-educational programs, and 160 from reentry classroom students.

The network welcomes children/youths with lived experience of education exclusion, often exposed to high childhood traumas, poverty, and severe learning gaps of 2+ years; the modality offered is 2-in-1. It’s a deep intervention after the system has abandoned them, offering a new meaning to reshape their previous frustrating experiences and bring out the best in themselves.

The work focuses on developing socio-emotional & cognitive skills through active methodologies and careful academic growth to promote and build educational trajectories & life projects. It includes training workshops to equip individuals with skills for the labor market or to advance to higher levels.

Scope of action:

1) Four Reentry Schools (4) located in La Granja, Maipú, Renca y Lota.

2) Socio-educational programs. Non-formal education for vulnerable children/youth outside the regular school system, offering personalized tutorials and group training space.

3) Transferring experience to the school community. Technical accompaniment to educational institutions & the Integrated Education Center for Adults (CEIA) to support the following offers:

a) Spaces for educational reencounter. Technical support to institutions that want to diversify their academic offer by opening spaces for educational reencounter through a Reentry Classroom.

b) A reentry Model. Technical support to institutions and schools that want to improve the diversification of their educational offer as a Reentry institution.

4) Studies and research. As an active part of civil society, the foundation has become a natural counterpart to the state in shaping public policies, improving them, and taking proactive actions to anticipate and address essential issues of educational exclusion.

5) Project and innovation. To improve social management in alliance with friendly civil society actors, we provide new and better opportunities for high-impact learning experiences. Examples include food truck entrepreneurship, job training workshops in the Reentry schools, digital transformation, eco-friendly clothing, etc.