Fabretto offers an integral, quality education to more than 50,000 children and youth in Nicaragua, promoting the participation of parents, teachers, and community leaders, who collaborate towards creating an environment in which children can thrive.
In order to embrace the three main stages of life in human development (infancy, childhood, adolescence), Fabretto implements three strategic educational programs: Early Education, Primary Education, and Technical Vocational Education. These programs have been recognized internationally by entities like Lego Foundation, Ashoka, and World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). In addition, Fabretto implements cross-cutting initiatives focused on health and food security, gender equality, violence prevention, community development, conservation of the environment, as well as universal and Christian values.
The Early Education program’s objective is to provide children ages 0-6 with the attention, stimulation, and nutrition they need to succeed at the primary level and beyond. The program supports children’s holistic development and early learning, helping children to meet key milestones in accordance with their developmental stage.
Through the program, children from 0 to 6 years of age develop skills in areas of personal and social formation in order to gradually build awareness of their existence as independent persons belonging to a family, a community, and to one world.
Communication is also developed to exchange ideas, feelings, and emotions with others and to encourage the development of cognitive processes that favor learning.
Fabretto aims to promote the transition to the next educational stages for children in vulnerable situations, highlighting the educational role of the family, the community, and the team of teachers who guarantee quality education by participating in extensive training and workshops.
Primary education is a fundamental human right, contributing to the mitigation of child labor, as well as allowing individuals to play an active role in society. The goal of the Program is to help primary students from underserved communities develop their full potential through personalized, age-appropriate teaching methodologies. It aims to contribute to the reduction of educational gaps by promoting the development of life skills such as literacy, logical-mathematical reasoning, as well as critical and creative thinking. Through play-based methodologies, Fabretto teachers stimulate the learning process for successfully achieving the next stage of education.
Fabretto recognizes the need to connect vocational technical training to the world of labor, technological progress, and community development processes in general. For this reason, through the Technical Education Program, Fabretto empowers youth and their families with the necessary skills to develop and sustain their livelihoods that, in turn, allow them to break the cycle of poverty.
In order to make the most of its potential, vocational-technical training at Fabretto is closely linked to the study and adoption of technologies, as well as to the acquisition of practical knowledge, theory, and skills related to economic and social trends, recognizing work experience in itself as a part of learning. In addition, Fabretto has taken a step towards “learning by earning,” linking students and small producers in rural areas to value chains, through its offer of training in entrepreneurship, access to a revolving credit fund, and the formation of strategic alliances with buyers and other actors in value chains such as coffee, chia, and honey.
