Santillana collaborates with the UNICEF and UNESCO Finishing School campaign

In Latin America and the Caribbean, there are approximately 117 million school-age (primary and secondary) children and adolescents. Yet 6.5 million of these do not attend school and a further 15,600,000 are at serious risk of dropping out, and are two years or more behind the their age-appropriate grade.

These are the main findings of the report Finishing School. A Right for Children’s Development: A Joint Effort presented on August 31 by the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) through Institute for Statistics (UIS). Santillana will be helping to distribute the report.

In recent decades, the education systems of Latin America and the Caribbean have been extended to cover the vast majority of children and adolescents. A number of regional initiatives have also been launched such as the project Education Goals 2021: the Education We Aspire to for the Bicentennial Generation launched in 2010 and whose ultimate goal is to improve the quality and equal access to education to better address poverty and thereby foster social inclusion.

However, there remain many real and potential pockets of social exclusion: children who are late entrants to the educational system, who consistently fail, who are not being offered educational experiences that will enable them to develop their skills, and who suffer discrimination.

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For more information about the campaign, visit the website www.completarlaescuela.org