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Fundaci贸n Cruzada Argentina works with isolated rural communities in Argentina designing and implementing development projects that improve and sustain the quality of life in these communities through work training.
Promote the development of rural communities through assistance, support for productive projects and training that will generate work related skills and attitudes.
Design, develop and implement specific actions to contribute to the well-being of the community and palliate the needs of the rural population of the Argentine Northwest.
Encourage the community participation in the design and management of development projects.
Foster the creation, development and strengthening of both individual and group micro and small productive projects, oriented towards a sustainable growth.
Empower abilities and competencies to allow development and self management.
Help revalue labor culture.
Provide tools that can make for a better labor insertion.
Facilitate the transmission of acquired abilities and experiences lived, thus generating multiplying agents.
A. Strengthening work related skills and attitudes
General Goal
In September 2007, we launched this new program which main goal is to work with high schools麓 students and teachers in rural areas, to strengthen their abilities to access the labor market.
Specific goals
Develop the necessary knowledge and attitudes to get a job.
Improve the conditions of the education in the rural environment.
Develop programs in the school, resulting in new tools for the students.
Turn students into multiplying agents of the acquired abilities (from the school to the whole community).
Support programs that allow students to strengthen their newly acquired abilities.
Set links between the schools and the productive means of the community.
Take actions to increase the conditions of schooling and diminish school dropouts.
B. Rural communities support program
General Goal: Strengthen the communities through the support of productive projects and basic assistance to rural elementary schools.
Productive Development: We promote productive projects to encourage entrepreneurial abilities, foster a culture of labor and facilitate access to education. These projects comprise the encouragement and technical, organizational and financial support of self managed and sustainable socio-productive projects in order to help communities to help themselves.
Specific goals
Genuine generation of ideas to solve problems.
The identification of ways to better exploit both traditional and new resources by the local community.
The leverage of the knowledge and the organization already existing in the community.
The availability of tools and input necessary to attain social or productive projects.
The training and experience of peers.
Beneficiaries: Primary schools and the students鈥 families in the communities we work with.
Projects: Some examples of these actions are: water supply initiatives, orchards - farms, sewing workshop, training in baking and construction of mud ovens, micro dairy farm.
Basic Assistance: Once a year, a group of volunteers visits each assisted area and carry out systematic screenings of the living conditions in each village through interviews to schools headmasters and teachers. The budget to this program is allotted according to the number of children involved and is executed through a centralized purchase system, in order to optimize costs.
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Our goals in 2011:
More than 700 students from rural high schools of the north of our country, were trained in planning and management of enterprises.
More than 20 projects contributed to the development of work related skills and attitudes for future employability.
18 schools participated in the High School Program
1103 children and adolescents from 15 rural elementary schools received more than 3 tons of food and 1146 pairs of shoes.
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