We are instilling entrepreneur spirit and know-how in our students at Amun Shea School, in northern Morazan, El Salvador. Through investigation and research, they construct solutions to very real local developmental problems and are becoming the changemakers within their homes and communities. Program growth, both in terms of student population and in technological advancement, has outgrown current facilities. We are building and equipping a computer lab and need your help to complete it.
The communities in northern Morazan suffer a self-perpetuating cycle of poverty. Historic isolation and civil war have provided excuses for apathy and conformism. Traditional education reinforces this negativity by preparing students for jobs that do not exist, leaving them to fend for themselves with only minimal academic skills. The challenge of breaking this vicious cycle resides in providing an education that changes attitudes and motivates the development of the entrepreneurial spirit.
Technological capacity building is fundamental for social entrepreneurial development. This project will provide that. It will also ignite access to global networks which span borders and build common agenda, injecting that paradigm changing ingredient required to activate qualitative cultural progress. This then will break the traditional cycle of poverty, open horizons and create a positive sequence of development, with positive cultural identity and attitude.
The creation of a group of well-educated and motivated leaders, with social entrepreneurial skills will gradually change the status quo in northern Morazan. We foresee alternatives to illegal immigration in search of opportunity, a leveling of the playing field in academic and economic terms. We see the creation of new services and industry. More importantly, we see global community networks created and brought to bear on shared global objectives; connectivity breaking isolation.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
