Youth and Community Development: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras

These initiatives include the Youth Without Borders mentoring program, which fosters the potential of youth, and the Community Café methodology, which generates dialogue in the community starting with teachers. The Youth Forum was also established in each country, with terms of reference written for its implementation in July of the same year. Achievements were also made during this period, with the concretion of three new alliances in support of the Community School – Getcom/One, Unicomer, and Convergys – as a result of a process of raising awareness, dialogue, and setting expectations and commitments, which began in mid-2015. A. Building Home Skills The three countries followed the process of identifying new schools for the implementation of the Community School, which includes conducting a diagnostic of potential schools, socializing the program with school authorities, evaluating the surrounding environment in terms of security, and ensuring the interest and commitment of the school and parents. With the schools identified, staff recruited and hired school coordinators, procured materials for the clubs, adapted spaces for the school coordinator, and started socializing the program to the students for subsequent inscription in the clubs. Starting in 2016, there are forty participating schools, including fourteen new ones, as follows: Table 1. Community Schools – 2016 No. School Name Location No. Students Area Partner 1 Escuela Oficial Rural Mixta No. 843 Bertha Herrera de Ruano (Matutina) Zona 7, Mixco, Guatemala 250 Rural Chevron 2 Escuela Oficial Rural Mixta No. 843 Bertha Herrera de Ruano (Vespertina) Zona 7, Mixco, Guatemala 392 Rural Chevron 3 Escuela Oficial Rural Mixta Tierra Blanca Zona 1, Guatemala, Mixco 496 Rural Henkel 4 Escuela Oficial Urbana de Varones José Vasconcelos Zona 10, Guatemala, Guatemala 162 Urban Chevron 5 Escuela Oficial Urbana de Varones No. 32 República Oriental del Uruguay Zona 7, Guatemala, Guatemala 189 Urban Chevron 6 Escuela Oficial Urbana Mixta El Éxidas Zona 12, Guatemala, Villa Nueva 240 Urban Chevron 7 Escuela Oficial Urbana Mixta Mezquital I Col. El Mezquital, Guatemala, Villa Nueva 266 Urban Chevron 8 Escuela Oficial Urbana Mixta Mezquital I Vespertina Col. El Mezquital, Guatemala, Villa Nueva 148 Urban Chevron 9 Escuela Oficial Urbana Mixta No. 19 Vicente Rivas Zona 8, Guatemala, Guatemala 175 Urban Chevron 10 C. E. Daniel Hernández Santa Tecla, La Libertad 870 Urban Unicomer 11 C. E. Luisa Marillac Santa Tecla, La Libertad 785 Urban Unicomer 12 C. E. Refugio de La Señora Santa Tecla, La Libertad 278 Urban Telus 13 C.E San José Abajo Santiago Nonualco, La Paz 375 Rural HanesBrands 14 C.E. Alberto Guerra Trigueros Armenia, Sonsonate 1100 Rural HanesBrands 15 C.E. Antonio Najarro Mejicanos, San Salvador 165 Urban Strachan 16 C.E. Lomas de San Juan Opico San Juan Opico, La Libertad 420 Rural HanesBrands 17 C.E. Caserio Has Flores San Juan Opico, La Libertad 595 Rural HanesBrands 18 C.E. Catolico San Jose de Maria San Salvador, San Salvador 769 Urban Unicomer 19 C.E. Juan Ramón Jiménez San Salvador, San Salvador 313 Urban GETCOM/One 20 C.E. Marcelino García Flamenco Santa Tecla, La Libertad 994 Urban TELUS 21 C.E. Republica de Canada San Salvador, San Salvador 473 Urban Strachan 22 C.E. Urbanizacion Montemar Olocuilta, La Paz 668 Rural Avery Dennison 23 Complejo Educativo Gerardo Barrios San Salvador, San Salvador 596 Urban Caoba 24 Complejo Educativo Walter A. Soundy Santa Tecla, La Libertad 1353 Urban TELUS 25 CEB Manuel Bonilla San Pedro Sula, Cortes 781 Urban HanesBrands 26 CEB Jose Trinidad Cabañas Villanueva 635 Urban HanesBrands 27 CEB Ing. Roberto Larios Silva San Pedro Sula, Ticaya 480 Urban Banpais 28 CEB Jose Castro Lopez San Pedro Sula, Choloma 92