Many of our students look forward to careers as medical professionals, marketers, agronomists, businessmen and women. Many of these ambitious career goals require a degree or certification from a college, university, trade, or vocational school.

A higher education degree in Ecuador opens doors for opportunity to these graduates, allowing entry into the skilled labor workforce. Skilled labor generates a higher income for them to more readily meet the everyday needs of their family and in time, fuel the dreams of their own children.

Kenneth is fortunate to have received a scholarship to cover 100 percent of his costs of attending university because after celebrating our first graduating class in 2016, it became apparent that while our graduates are academically equipped for college, the socio-economic status of their families made it hard to come up with enough funds for their continued education. 

For some students, the costs of college forced them to set aside their studies to return home, find a job, and help support their families’ day-to-day needs. For other students, even though they received a partial scholarship from a university, they still could not afford the remaining amount. To see them work so hard to become the first in their family to graduate from high school and have their dreams cut short due to lack of funds meant we could do more to ensure the vision of them becoming Ecuador’s future leaders.