Explor@: Creative and Entrepreneurial Experience for Youth

Channel 11 TV report on Project Explor@. In Costa Rica, the Omar Dengo Foundation (ODF), Wal-Mart, the Ministry of Public Education (MPE), the Ministry of Justice and Microsoft have joined their efforts to offer children and youth at social risk a set of non-formal learning experiences aimed at developing their creativity, productivity and healthy recreation. The partnership that they have set up is aimed at providing an innovative educational service to underprivileged children and youth. Spanning over a four-year period (2006-2010), the project will benefit approximately 20,000 children and youth all over the country.

The Explor@ project, "Explor@: Creative and Entrepreneurial Experiences for Youth," is a pedagogical proposal based on an innovative approach for the use of digital technologies to foster youth's talents, their self and collective efficacy, and promote their return to the educational system.

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Education

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• Omar
• Dengo
• Explor@
• Dulce
• Ayuda
• Wal-Mart