Secondary Education:

• Community Priority

• Closest high school >15 miles down dirt roads.

• High School age children and adults need to help on farms to support families

• Few adult community members have completed high school. – War– Lack of resources

Secondary Education:Goals

• Improve access for all community members

• Provide high quality education

• Make school sustainable

Education: SabatinoColegio El Almendro

Education: Sabatino Colegio El Almendro

Currently there are over 130 students from many surrounding communities.

Education: Sabatino Colegio El Almendro

• Today there are 3 grades and 156 students

• School is no longer big enough• In three years we expect school to grow

to 840 students (may be an underestimation) and be serving students from 18 different communities

• Ministry of education is paying for two new teachers and will pay new teachers as needed

• Applying for grant for new school

HPS Student Survey

• Surveys Completed by student• Process was 100% confidential

• Students did not write their name on survey

• Teachers left room while students completed surveys (collected by HPS representative)

Education: Sabatino

Students’ Home Town (n=124)

Coperna22%

Other10%

Los Pinares11%

Mongallo12%

Montecristo7%

Negrowas18%

Salto Verde17%

Trinitara3%

Many students still travel for hours on horseback or on foot to arrive at the school.

Education: Sabatino

Students’ Age

Education: Sabatino

School Overall

Teachers

Curriculum

Daily Schedule

Location

Building

Classrooms

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

86%

98%

89%

87%

73%

68%

22%

Percentage of student rating school ele-ment as "good" or "excellent" on 4-point

scale (n=124)

Education: Sabatino

• Why is it important for you to get an education?

– “ Because I want to help my community”– “So I can get a higher paying job”– “So that I can learn to be tolerant of those

different from me”– “So that people will respect me”– “So that I can better my own life and help

those in need in my community”– “So that I can help my family”– “Because we are our future”