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Fundación Conbo's mission is simple: to amplify Latin American voices by ensuring that Latin Americans have the one tool they need to tell their stories to the wider world: a grounding in English language journalism.Large swaths of Latin America don´t have this, either because they don't have access to English language education or because they don't appreciate the need for it. The foundation exists to provide this education.The foundation's primary goal is to teach Latin Americans how to tell their stories in English. The foundation accomplishes this goal through courses on media and the press and currently focuses on two groups of students in Latin America:• Journalism students, because they are already being taught storytelling (whether it's through text, television, radio, or multimedia); and• English students, because they already have the motivation to learn English and understand the importance of English as a second language.To reach these two groups, the foundation targets three types of institutions:• Universities that teach journalism;• English language institutes that receive Chilean students eager to learn English; and• International high schools ("liceos") that teach English at a level that gives students a running start at the spoken and written components of the language.The foundation offers these institutions English language courses on media and journalism, adapted to each institution's unique audience.Through these courses, the foundation plans to educate generations of "critical citizens," people who are able to analyze their societies, their cultures, their institutions, and their political systems, and express themselves in a global language (English) to the rest of the world outside their country.