FOUNDATION MARCELO ASTORECA CORREA

General Policy The Foundation Marcelo Astoreca Correa has as its objective social action programs benefiting sectors of the population in major need. San Joaquín School is a work which is part of this objective.   The intention is to make a contribution through this school to fight against and overcome the marginality conditions many sectors live in, since elementary education is one of the most efficient tools to break the vicious circle of extreme poverty.   With this project is also necessary to honor Marcelo Astoreca’s memory and the cause he dedicated his life to: fighting against poverty, using technical methods in an efficient way.   The Foundation’s aim is the children who study at this school to have more and better opportunities in their lives compared to those they might have had in the normal educational system.

General Objetives

By forming San Joaquín School, Foundation Marcelo Astoreca poses itself the following general objectives:

1. The children of this School to have performances inside the upper range of private school in the country. Because we believe and we want to demonstrate that when children who live in the extreme poverty are put under a systematic teaching process, adequate to their deficiencies are able to have high performances and by achieving this aim the student acquire skills, abilities and attitudes which allow him to overcome his extreme poverty condition. 
2. By demonstrating that with adequate and systematic methodologies children with socio-cultural disadvantages are able to learn, we want to be an example for this kind of project to be imitated and to raise the standards desired in the education for children in extreme poverty areas. Also, for the project to be duplicated, it must be inside a reasonable level of costs.
3.  To form people with deeply rooted moral values and a solid spiritual formation based on the Catholic Church doctrine.
4.  It is expected the students of the school to have the following values in their lives:
   a)      Living according to the Christian spirituality and the Catholic Church teachings.
   b)     Aspiring to have a well-established family.
   c)      Being able to have a skilled job and keep it.
   d)     Being able to overcome the vices and problems of extreme poverty.
   e)      Being able to contribute with their communities.
   f)       Being able to use free time in a constructive or sound way.
   g)      Being able to make decisions and look for solutions to their problems.
5. The teaching methodology to be centered both in the contents and in the learning processes, giving special importance to the thought development and to good job attitudes.
6.  Being a project which intends to demonstrate its effects, look for the appropriate methods and being duplicable, it must:
   a)      Being open to the experimentation and search of better methodologies or approach to the problems.
   b)     To register the experiences in projects or memories.
   c)      To be permanently evaluated.
   d)     Always quantify the costs of each policy and keep them into suitable ranges.
7.  There would be a pleasant labor atmosphere for all those who work at the school, there are harmony and integration among teachers, as well as between them and the Principal’s school office and the Foundation. We want a motivation to be perceived at work and a spirit of cooperation and understanding.