Community Education
“The beauty of this program is that we didn’t give temporary solutions to an individual, but rather permanent and sustainable solutions to communities. As for the student volunteers, we came in as individual students with different backgrounds, not knowing what we had gotten ourselves into, but left as a part of a community.”
- Daniel Z., Duke University, Guatemala

Community Education comes in many forms and is vital to help break the cycle of poverty. Social Entrepreneur Corps supports community education in three ways; through awareness and education campaigns in community gathering places, through working with schools and through supporting local high-impact grassroots community educations “centers”. We have in fact created our own community education center in Guatemala called the “Centro Explorativo” which benefits greatly from Social Entrepreneur Corps participant support.  

Recent participant contributions:

Completed 38 new profiles of local organizations and small businesses and wrote 89 how-to articles in Spanish on a a wide range of topics from health and nutrition and business creation to agriculture and appropriate technology.

Worked with students to interview local elders on their life and experiences in La Pista. They alsocreated new Centro signs to hang in strategic locations in La Pista.

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