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Our goal of poverty reduction through education and employment is being realised as our students become teachers and offer wider educational opportunities to members of their communities.

Students sharing their learning within their communities include Deylin Romero Blandon, Egna Rugama, Marlon Villareyna, and Nelvis Pinell.

Deylin Romero Blandon is the Director of the computer centre in El Cebollal.
In 2010, classes in basic and advanced computer skills will be taught by Yudith and Jaqueline Galeano. The computers are powered by solar energy because there is no
mains electricity in this area of the Miraflor Nature Reserve.

Deylin is very organised and the students are very satisfied with the classes. Forty six students graduated in 2009. The 2010 classes begin in February.

In 2009 we bought two flat screen monitors and this year we will need to replace some of the computers and buy a new printer.

The first six students of Egna Rugama graduated in April 2009 from a basic
computer skills class, in the community
centre of El Coyolito.

These computers are also powered
by solar energy. Community members
can recharge their phones here and
watch television.

Youngsters in the community where Marlon Villareyna lives have asked him to give English
classes. Marlon is a busy community leader but will try to make time to meet this request.

In 2007, two young people, Deylin and Marlon, each spent two to three months in the UK. For part of the time they attended a residentail English course. Both made the most of this opportunity and now Deylin teaches a small group in El Cebollal.
Click here to read what Deylin wrote after her course ended.

Nelvis Pinell started studying English at University in January 2009. She loves languages - and is good at them; she'd like to teach in her community.