FUNDAEC

Fundación para la Aplicación y Enseñanza de las Ciencias (transl. Foundation for the Application and Teaching of the Sciences), is an NGO based in Cali, Colombia. CBIDA and CIDA are supporting FUNDAEC's alternative rural secondary curriculum through the "Empowering Rural Youth - Colombia" project. The project's objectives are to upgrade, translate and consolidate selected components of its tutorial learning system (tr. Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial [SAT]). the Ministry of Education in Colombia recognizes and accredits the SAT methodology which has trained over 50,000 rural Colombian youth. FUNDAEC implements its current SAT programme to over 30,000 students through 400 tutors supported by a network of 30 NGOs.

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