Rising to the Challenge: Your Votes See Teach A Man To Fish School Take 2nd Place

“Agriculture School – Paraguay” wins 2nd prize in the BBC World Challenge 2008 awards.
World Challenge is a global competition, now in its fourth year, that encourages, recognizes, and rewards enterprising initiatives making a real difference being made at the grass-roots level. There’s really no better example of this than the Escuela Agricola San Francisco in Paraguay, run by our Latin America partner the Fundación Paraguaya.

Paraguay is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, yet the educational system does not teach children how to earn a living. This unique school incorporates life skills qualifications, alongside traditional academic modules - producing graduates able to go directly into well-paid work, or into further education.

Martin Burt and Nik Kafka, from Fundación Paraguaya and TeachAManToFish attended the ceremony in Holland to receive the prize of USD $10.000 which will make a valuable contribution to enhancing the students’ overall learning experience.

With a tiny home audience for BBC World programs in Paraguay, it’s your votes internationally that catapulted us into second place – so thanks from all of us here at TeachAManToFish!