Centro Educativo Pavarotti
The Centro Educativo Pavarotti (Pavarotti Education Center, CEP) is a middle school for children between 12 and 16 years old on the shores of Lake Atitlan in San Lucas Toliman, Sololá , Guatemala . The center is an initiative of the Rigoberta Menchu Foundation (more precisely: the Utizal Tijonikel Program ), which is recognized for its educational programs and the fight against impunity as well as its contributions to the defense of human rights, especially of the indigenous population.
The Utzilal Tijonikel project also offers, in addition to school education, a basic professional orientation with the aim of sustainable development of the rural communities around the center. The center currently has around 150 students and ten teachers. The majority of the students come from poor backgrounds who, like their parents , would be forced to work in the fields without the financial support of the foundation or the school .
history
In 1999 the Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti organized a charity concert, with the proceeds of which he wanted to establish an institution for the education and training of indigenous Maya children in Guatemala, the victims of the Guatemalan civil war . To this end, he started a collaboration with her friend, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and advocate of rights for indigenous peoples, Rigoberta Menchú Tum .
Rigoberta Menchú Tum put forward the idea of building a school and was finally commissioned with the planning and organization of the building in 2000. The educational institute was opened in 2003 and started work that same year. The building and management were entrusted to the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation, but Luciano Pavarotti provided the funding until 2005.
From 2005 the school had to finance itself, which led to the fact that the school now also offers services in the tourism sector (restaurant, room rental and tours to explore the Maya culture) in order to keep the school going.
curriculum
The curriculum covers a wide range of different subjects such as: B. Spanish, English, mathematics, computer science, but also art, history and culture. Above all by learning the indigenous language Kaqchikel , the Maya culture and their wisdom are conveyed. The motto of the Utizal Tijonikel program is "Doing good", which includes respect for foreign cultures and human rights as well as equality between men and women in society and the world of work.
Traineeship
The Centro Luciano Pavarotti offers volunteers the opportunity to get involved in language lessons, for example, or to take initiative and offer courses with an educational background, such as environmental protection.
Another major part of the work of volunteers is to participate in the establishment of a sustainable tourism program. The aim of such a program is the independent financing of the center, but also the education about the effects of the 36 year long civil war and the persecution of the indigenous population.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://frmt.org/en/AreadeEducacion/utzilal.html
- ↑ FRMT: Mission y vision. In: FRMT. FRMT, accessed September 28, 2018 (Spanish).
- ^ San Lucas Scholars: Centro Luciano Pavarotti. San Lucas Scholars, accessed September 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Mario Roberto Salazar Dávila: Guía pedagógica para la ejecución del programa de educación bilingüe intercultural en el Centro Educativo Pavarotti, San Lucas Tolimán . Ed .: Universidad San Caros. Universidad San Carlos, Guatemala 2012.