Consciente is an initiative for high-quality education for all which has been active in the department of Morazán, El Salvador since 2012. Our activities are coordinated by young people from El Salvador, financed by a Swiss association and actively supported by numerous local and international volunteers. In our view, a good and accessible education enables young people to take their future and that of their communities into their own hands. Education is thus an indispensable building block of a sustainable bottom-up development process.
- Our Scholarship Program helps committed young people from poor backgrounds to obtain a technical or university education.
- The Educational Innovation Program uses creative ideas to improve the quality of education in local schools.
- In the Sustainability Education Program, we use participatory educational activities to promote the critical discussion of important social and environmental issues.
Consciente is one of the first Swiss organizations to consistently pursue an evidence-based approach in its project work. That is, we first conduct a trial where new projects are carefully evaluated using scientific methods. In this way we make sure that our work actually achieves the desired results.