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BECA
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BECA (Bilingual Education for Central America) provides affordable bilingual education and promotes cultural exchange. In our volunteer-driven bilingual school model, Central American students learn from dedicated volunteer teachers, and those volunteers learn from the community in which they are immersed. Providing educational access and empowerment to the most financially disadvantaged members of a community is a defining characteristic of our program; it should come as no surprise that "beca" means scholarship in Spanish. BECA provides a high-quality, bilingual (English-Spanish) education to over 600 disadvantaged preschool – 9th grade students at our partner schools in Cofradía, Vida Nueva and Macuelizo, Honduras. For the 2018-2019 school year, we will recruit and intensively train 40 service-minded, English-speaking volunteers from Honduras and around the world. These volunteers serve as full-time classroom teachers at SJBS, SMBS or ADJ. Since they are volunteers who receive no salary (and whose basic living expenses and training costs are covered by BECA), SJBS, SMBS and ADJ are able to charge a tiny fraction of the tuition of comparable bilingual schools in the region – enabling our students to receive an education that would otherwise be accessible to only very wealthy Hondurans. BECA also administers a need-based scholarship program that currently provides scholarships for 50% of BECA's most disadvantaged students – meaning the school is truly accessible to ALL students in the community.