San Antonio Education Initiative

We work with the elementary schools in the region to provide school supplies and equipment. We try to ensure that every child will have the opportunity to attend school, and that the schools will have the equipment and supplies they need.

Our scholarship program, which started small, is growing each year. Although most children can make it through the primary grades, education becomes increasingly expensive as students reach middle and high school, which involve student fees, uniforms, and long bus trips every day, because there is no senior high school in the villages. 

One of San Antonio’s two schools was declared unsafe after the devastating landslide of May 2010,  which killed 26 people and destroyed 75 homes. Now more than 500 children are now being educated in the half-finished basement of the Catholic church. We have been working hard to help improve this temporary location, and are also exploring the possibilities of building a new permanent school. 

Working hard in San Antonio