Introduction

Caminando Unidos’ Education Project is the central focus of all the activities, the methodology and the philosophy of our organization. The alternative education program sustains itself through non-violence, love and friendship within a community; serving children who have been expelled or have never been admitted into the public education system. In the face of social marginalization, desperation, expulsion and rejection of many youth, we respond with an education that dignifies, validates, esteems, promotes, impels and encourages growth. In the education project, we have created two general areas: preschool and elementary. All students are integrated in some way into these two areas.

Objectives

The objectives presented in the Education Project of Caminando Unidos A.C. depend on the corresponding education levels. Our Educative Project this divided into Maternal, Preschool, and Elementary Levels 1 (Containment), 2 (Alpha), 3 (NOR and NII) and 4 (NIII and NIV).

Maternal and Preschool Program Objective

To integrate into their education the promotion of physical, intellectual and social-emotional development of all children, offering the tools necessary for them to generate their own autonomy.

Primary objective Level 1

Open a space of containment for children who through their conditions in life appear aggressive, with difficulties relating to others and initiating a process of collective learning. This should be done so that each student at their own rate can work together in a group setting.

Primary objective Level 2

To structure a program supported by the system of the INEA so that the children learn to read and write in a period of a year, giving them the opportunity to integrate themselves into the formal system.

Primary objective Level 3 and 4

To help to children that have either been expelled from or have never entered the formal public school system to complete their studies of primaria (elementary school) so that they may return to secundaria (middle school) in the public education system and/or enter the production workshop program at Caminando Unidos.

Table of Necesities and Objectives

Characteristics

MATERNAL-PRESCHOOL

PRIMARY-ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Necesities

To take care of young children, increasing their opportunities of acceding through an appropriate education program. To take care of abandonment cases..

Increase the number of minors who are able to take care of maternal and preschool children.

To create education alternatives for the children who do not attend public school.

To give children who do not attend public school access to an appropriate alternative education program.

Oportunities

To provide alternative education by opening a space of welcome reception, playfulness and brotherly love so that children grow in fullness. Children with a good preschool and elementary education are less likely to be deserted when the enter middle school. Desertion is one of the most serious problems resulting in many students being left behind.

Specific

Objectives

To use the verified methodology, “High Scope”. (Educators are receiving the training necessary to be able to apply the techniques).

To watch the physical and psychological health of each child so that we are more able to be a part of any treatment they may be receiving as well as build relations with the child’s family providing more rounded support in the future.

To provide a balanced and nutritious diet to help diminish the cases of undernourishment and malnutrition that the youngest children often suffer. A balanced diet also increases a child’s level of concentration.

To teach the importance and enforce the practice of personal hygiene in such a way to instill healthy habits and increase self-esteem.

To create an educational, formative and playful space for the appropriate development of each child according to their state of growth and age.

To increase to the self-esteem and pride of each child. To separate the preschool and maternal children that for budget reasons had been put together.

PRESCHOOL

PRIMARY