Fundemaría

The projects led by the FUNDEMARIA Foundation are aimed at the training and productive development of the communities. We provide the conditions, opportunities and infrastructure to promote quality education. 

During all these years we have promised to continue working to improve the quality indices of education received by children and young people in the municipality of María La Baja.

1. Educational support project with didactic material: 3000 school kits are delivered annually to be distributed in institutions in rural areas (villages).
2. Virtual classrooms: classrooms with state-of-the-art equipment and training for the teaching staff.
3. Infrastructure improvement and furniture to educational centers in the area.
4. Program for the improvement of the quality of education:training for the updating and training of teachers at the María La Baja school.
5. Young pride from La Palma: facilitate access to higher education for young people who occupy the best positions in the Tests Know of 11th grade in universities in the country, granting them aid or scholarships to enter the university. More than 40 young people have been selected for this program, of which more than 16 have already graduated from qualified Colombian universities.
6. SENA alliances: in our facilities, technical studies and complementary courses of the SENA are developed, in which more than 200 students per year are attended. These are young people from the area, women heads of households and palm growers. 
7. Creative robotics and electronics seedbed in alliance with the El Condor Foundation:educational innovation and good use of free time for young people from 6th to 11th grade of the educational institutions of the municipality of María la Baja.