THE DEMAND FOR UNIVERSAL VALUES EDUCATION GROWS

Organizations and governments join together to educate children in citizenship and other values.

This time,  it is Panama and  Chevron-Texaco that have chosen the Alive to the World / AW program to awaken in young students universal values such as self-respect, respect toward others, loyalty, perseverance, integrity, optimism and the desire to contribute to society as a self-reliant person.

Ten thousand public school students will benefit from a grant from Chevron that has enabled Alliance for the Family / AFF to donate books to the Ministry of Education. Participating at the signing  ceremony were Panamanian Minister of Education Lucy Molinar; Pedro Sigui, Chevron’s Manager for Retail Sales and Industrial Customers; and Cristina Burelli, Executive Director of AFF.

Mr. Sigui stated that the oil company always aims to promote the development of the communities where it has operations, throughout the world. For the last decade, more than ever, Chevron has been supporting the education of youth, and the company is starting to focus on character as a key element in the advancement of individuals and societies. And, he continued, in Alive to the World / AW Chevron has found a program that works.

Alive to the World / AW, based on universal values, is intensive (1 hour per week for 35 weeks), extensive (grades 1 through 12) and unique (story-based).

Some 65,000 young people follow it in 11 Latin American countries, and 1,000 participate in a pilot project in the United Kingdom. After the first year of a study of 9,000 children that focuses on the transmission of “democratic values”, independent researchers have found “strong initial evidence” that the program is effective.

More information: www.infoval.org, www.allianceforfamily.org