Retaking Educational trajectories-Chile,
What Súmate-Hogar de Cristo is doing.

Retrieving the educational path for vulnerable youth is a complex process involving multiple factors after having lived experience of school exclusion. It includes healing the wounds of long stories of deprivation and poverty, so it is a slow and patient 24/7 job to work one-on-one with tenacity, both student and teacher/counselor.

Súmate foundation has 12 social programs that annually serve 3,400 children/youth. It supports their reinsertion into school to prevent dropout and complete education. SUMATE welcomes children & youth rejected by the public system with two or more years of a learning gap or missed more significant amounts of schooling.

About 187,000 Children and Adolescents from 5 to 21 years old are out of school in Chile. Added around 40,000  new school dropouts after the pandemic, and the magnitude of the impact & cumulated damage is not known yet. We will need to wait until new figures from the State come out through CASEN statistics.

The Súmate’s work accompanies youth with a new meaning to their experience of school exclusion and provides skills and inclusive education to overcome obstacles.     

Súmate identifies four steps youth most likely have experienced as educational exclusion: Encounter, Acknowledge, decision-making, and take over and projection.

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