Education for Youth Organization
SHARE currently supports two projects with CRIPDES San Vicente: Education for Youth Organization and Seed Funds and Mental Health for Women Leaders. Read more about CRIDPES San Vicente.
Project Name: Fostering the Leadership and Organizing Abilities of Youth Leaders and Scholarship Students
High School Scholarship Students
This project fosters the leadership and community organizing abilities of 26 young men and women through a training process, accompaniment in community organizing, and academic support. Youth will gain a fundamental understanding of the importance of community organizing and the tools necessary to seek sustainable, alternative, democratic development for their communities. Scholarship youth will put knowledge gained into practice through service projects in their communities. In this way, the project will not only benefit the scholarship students, but the entire CRIPDES San Vicente region.
This is an ongoing scholarship program, beginning in 2006. Since then, 43 students and youth leaders from families of scarce resources have been graduated high school.
Specific Project Elements:
- High school scholarships for 26 high school youth
- Four scholarship student assemblies for formation on issues including leadership, the national reality, history, public speaking, community organizing, and gender and sexuality
- A regional youth gathering on non-violence
- Two educational and recreational activities; for example, a visit the Museum of the Word and Image as a part of cultural and historic formation
- Support for youth leaders in organizing youth in their communities and involvement in community activities, including cleaning campaigns and patron saint festivals
- Training and support for youth to facilitate literacy circles, informal spaces for people to learn basic reading and writing skills, in their home communities
Guadalupe
Community Perspective
“For me it has been such an honor and a privilege to participate, and be able to say that I am a high school graduate. When I began, you could say that I was hiding, afraid to go out into the light of the sun. This program really helped me find myself. I quickly became part of the youth committee in my community, as well as the pastoral team and the soccer team. I have also participated in committees at the regional level here in Tecoluca. Forming part of this program has allowed me to learn all that I know now, and to become who I am today.”
- Guadalupe Sanchez, project participant and youth leader in the CRIPDES San Vicente region
Project Supporters
Thanks to the following Grassroots Partners for their ongoing accompaniment of communities in the CRIPDES San Vicente region: Christ the King Parish CA, Faithweavers/Friends of El Salvador at St Mary’s University Parish MI, Cretin Derham Hall High School MN, Georgetown University DC, and University Lutheran Chapel CA.
Read more about this youth development project:
NEW! Youth Leaders Learn about Organic Farming in CRIPDES San Vicente
Interviews with High School Scholarship Students
In Their Own Words: Reflections and Stories from Youth Leaders in CRIPDES San Vicente
Youth Leaders and Scholarship Students in San Vicente Circle up to Share Progress in Their Communities
SHARE CRSV Youth Leadership Development Project Recomendation 2012
CRSV Youth Leadership Development Semester Report 2011
