Project Description:
he overall program objective is to improve the coverage, quality and efficiency of education services offered by Consejo Nacional de Fomento Educativo [National Council for Education Development] (CONAFE) to the population living in poor, isolated areas where formal education system services are unavailable. The CONAFE community education program will operate in districts where there are no Department of Public Education (SEP) schools, and serves children and adolescents living in small, remote and geographically scattered communities. The community education model is built on participation by young instructors (ranging in age from 15 to 24 years) who, following an intensive training period, are assigned and transferred to a community where they live with a family that provides lodging and food. At present CONAFE serves some 290,000 students in these remote areas, providing preschool, primary, and post primary school programs.
