BACKGROUND

Tobatí is both a town and a provincial district with a population of 21,315 of which 16,538 (75.5%) are under the age of 19.  More than 70 percent of Tobati’s people live on less than $2 a day.

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GOAL

Education in an impoverished land.

We are dedicated to helping educate the people of Tobati, Paraguay. We aim to improve the learning environment through the improvement of the current facilities, the construction of new facilities, and the hiring and training of staff to improve literacy in the community.

PROBLEM

School needs funding to build classrooms.

Nine different rural grade schools in the district of Tobati have inadequate classroom capacity, and are in need of extra space, desks and chalkboards.

SOLUTION

Team Tobati XL

The team, made up of students and alumni from Kingswood Oxford High School, will be in Tobati building additional classroom space for Escuela Basica 3906 “Maestra Telma Salvioni de Cabriza” in the poor rural village of Mompox, Tobatí. This school currently runs through the 6th grade.  Students upon finishing the 6th grade are forced to walk over a half hour to the nearest middle school. Primarily because of this, less than 10 percent of the Mompox students continue their education after the 6th grade.  The additional classroom space will allow the school to offer a 7th grade this year—and an 8th grade next year.

WHAT THEY NEED

• Staffing the Macchi Education center with teachers and other professionals, $38,400
  
• Staffing El Centro de Salud with pediatricians, gynecologists, and other medical professionals.
  
• Supplying new computers and other technological advancements at the Macchi Education center, a center dedicated to offering free educational opportunities to the region’s poor youth, $10,000
  
• The construction of a classroom at a small grade school in a rural village in Tobati, $3,500  (The team will be constructing classrooms at 9 different rural schools in the district of Tobati.)
  
• Providing free medication to poor families during free clinics, $3,000
  
• Handing out thousands of pamphlets on public health, toothbrushes, and soccer balls at all the schools in the district of Tobati, $5,000
  
• Structural improvements at artisan collective, $1,500
  
• Powdered milk programs at rural schools, $2,500
  
• Construction of a community development center in the poor rural community of Mompox, Tobati, $4,000
  
• Uniforms and supplies for grass-root organizing concerning healthcare issues, $500

WHAT THEY’VE ACCOMPLISHED WITH YOUR HELP

Posterus Funds Macchi Library Expansion

Financial Report 1 (PDF)
Financial Report 2 (PDF)
Financial Report 3 (PDF)