Such a difference!

Sustainability is an important part of the TINFA program.

During this trip, we visited 6 of the several schools that have graduated from the TINFA program in 2019 and 2020 in the Retalhuleu region and the Palmar district.

Few of the schools are having a challenge in finding the funds to pay for Internet and continue with the program. It has been particularly difficult while schools are closed and the community does not get together physically. (for some schools, it just made sense not to pay for the internet, while it was closed).

For the most part however, the contrast in between a teacher who has been through the 2 year TINFA program is amazing, compared to the new teachers from the new schools who are starting with the program this year.

There is such confidence and ease in the use of the computer, and the integration of virtual material in the lesson. “It would be hard to go without these tools now.” we have been told.

TINFA’s goal for sustainability is that 2 years after graduating from the program, a school still has internet, and 80% of the teachers use the equipment in the classroom at least twice a week.