Education
The goal of education is to prepare young minds to educate themselves and to change the world.
It is a well proven fact that for a country that wants to develop, emphasis on education is a must. For the mainstream population there are ample opportunities to get a good education, but for the marginalized these opportunities are hard to get by. To combat this, in our small way, we want to partner with the Government in its efforts to give young people a good start in life – by giving them quality education.
Our goal is to provide a quality basic education for children from Grade 1 to grade 5 at affordable cost by promoting:
CMP believes that a child has a right to good education hence a facility to afford children from low-income family a basic educational foundation that will prepare them for higher education was conceived. We are committed to create a learning environment that will facilitate the development of the physical, social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual aspects the child. When enrolling in the school the Social Worker will conduct a means test for every child to evaluate their family’s capacity to pay the participation fee.
This program is mainly funded by ABC Children´s Aid, Iceland. The program supports children and youth in preschool, elementary, high school and college with their tuition fees and other school related expenses.
College students who excel in their school performance are given special privileges under the scholarship grant.
Besides the monetary support there are a number of activities aimed at helping the sponsored child as well as his/her family with educational and spiritual guidance.
The program is handled by social workers who are directly involved in the program implementation.
We provide seminars for youth, career guidance, youth assemblies, parent effectiveness seminars and health teaching and monthly meetings for parents and students.
The Skills Training Program started in 2007 and is now operating in two areas. At Molfrid Center and at San Isidro Center. It aims to provide Skills Training to selected adults and out-of-school youth, enabling them to have better opportunities of gaining employment.
Yearly around 350 trainees are enrolled. The courses are Hairdressing, Sewing, Tailoring, Computer System Servicing (NCII), Computer Literacy, Welding, and Baking and Pastry courses. All the courses are TESDA accredited and the students are assessed by this Government Institution.