Education Peru Project #42343

Empower the lives of 400 talented peruvian kids

by Peru Champs Association

Empower the lives of 400 talented peruvian kids

Project Report | Jul 25, 2022
Sergio: A Champ with big educational vocation

By Fatima Moreno | Project Leader

Sergio is a 16-year-old Champ from Santa Anita, Lima. He lives with his two sisters and his mother. Recently, he received surprising news about being accepted at three great universities: Haverford College, Duke University and Dartmouth College, the university of his dreams, where he received a scholarship to study Education Policy.

Sergio's vocational link with education has accompanied him for several years. Actually, he developed the project “Time to Learn” during his school years, a space where students can learn about topics that are not taught in schools but are essential for their future, such as financial education, digital tools, first aids, etc. Although the project will be paused for a while due to the process that Sergio must follow to start his classes, he has already planned new actions to take it to a more professional level. Sergio hopes to use the resources he will get from university to upgrade his project as much as possible.

His goal is to create a high-quality educational system that would make Peruvians proud, in which children and teenagers could be able to develop all their capacities and take advantage of all their talents. For Sergio, betting on Peruvian talent is the best way to generate a positive impact in our country, generating committed citizens willing to change the world.

Perú Champs marked a great stage in Sergio’s life. Therefore, he promises to keep its purpose alive and extend its legacy. What he values the most is the way that the organization helps closing socioeconomic gaps by facilitating access to quality education and, also, making it possible for students to dream bigger and further, giving them all the resources needed to achieve their goals.

Learn about more stories like Sergio’s and help more Champs reach their goals by donating now.

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Mar 31, 2022
With Brave Wings, She Flies

By Fatima Moreno | Project Leader

When Cielo was 7 years old, she was a victim of racism at her school. Today, she leads a promising action to end this problem in Peru.

Cielo is a 14 years old peruvian teenager who was born and raised in Piura, a city in northern Peru, along with her parents and her three younger brothers. For six years, she has been a beneficiary of the Peru Champs scholarship, which allows her to access a quality education and strengthen her leadership skills. Cielo has been carrying out an important action against one of the biggest problems in the country: racism. Her case, and the beginning of her fight, have been recorded in the book "Mancha Brava-Colegialas", by the writer and journalist Antonio Orjeda, which compiles the stories of 10 peruvian girls who seek to break gender stereotypes and lead the change of the country.

In the book, Cielo says that her interest in solving this problem goes back to a personal experience, unfortunately a very common one suffered by many boys and girls in schools in Peru, such as exclusion by their classmates due to their skin color. However, the case of Cielo becomes special, when she tells us how her parents and teachers, upon learning what happened, encouraged her to raise awareness among her classmates, through her talent. "They called me black" by Victoria Santa Cruz was the poem that Cielo declaimed in front of her classmates. She says that since she read it for the first time she felt strongly identified. As a result, Cielo left all the class impressed that day.

Sometime later, Cielo's family found out about the Peru Champs scholarship. Her mother, knowing the great potential and talent of her little girl, encouraged her to apply. Today, thanks to the academic and leadership training that Cielo receives as a Champ, she has turned that childhood experience into a commitment to improve her country. She stands out how the workshops and conferences, in which she has participated since her first day as Champ, have awakened her desire not to sit idly by and change the situation of racism in Peru. Just as at one point she did by reciting a poem, today she seeks to raise awareness by writing articles that fight against this problem in school correspondents for the famous peruvian newspaper El Comercio.

In a few years, Cielo will finish school, but she knows perfectly well that the Champ DNA will always be part of her. For this reason, she wants to become a professional journalist, and also a filmmaker whose stories help to build a fairer and more egalitarian Peru. She is aware that there are still many victims and recognizes that there is much work to be done, but she also knows that as Champ there is no limit to her potential, because it goes beyond the sky.

Learn more stories like Cielo's and help more Champs achieve their dreams by donating today.

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Jan 5, 2022
#ChampsDaily: Persevere to Study

By Fatima Moreno | Project Leader

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