Inclusion for Special Needs Children in Ecuador

The year 2025 represents a new challenge for our educational community. After almost 30 years, we no longer want adolescents and young people without opportunities in the future. We are therefore energized to be part of those who create knowledge and new opportunities for these children, who, upon graduating from Nova in seventh grade between the ages of 12 and 15, can no longer continue. Nova is developing an important Youth Project that has already implemented preparatory activities as part of the project itself, which will likely begin in April of this year, 2025.

It is impossible for these young people, for the most part, to have access to pre-employment preparation opportunities, even in our setting, as part of an inclusive education system. If they exist, they are very scarce and too expensive.

We are working with proposals that connect academic and pre-employment training, which they need to learn from an early age, always linked to their comprehensive development from various personal perspectives. Today, more than ever, we reach out to you with this new path and the hope that there are people who want to be part of the future of these young people and their families, who will become individuals who contribute to their families and society and not rebellious members who threaten the peace and future of their lives and that of those around them.

Thank you, and even more so if you, or through you, can give us the support we need to continue this work.