By Anabella Maudet | Executive Director
The traditional Annual Meeting of Integrar Graduates took place on December 15 and, this year, it was a very special event. We not only celebrated the achievements of our scholarship recipients but also the 15th anniversary of Fundación Integrar.
During his remarks, the President of the Integrar’s Board of Directors recalled how it all started back in the early 2000s. At a soccer game, three friends who had just started the university met a young man who dreamed of going to college because he believed that getting an education would allow him to change his life for the better. The three friends realized that although the university is free in Argentina, the young man was so poor that he could not afford the transportation and study materials expenses. They decided to sponsor him and paid for his expenses; one of them assumed a mentoring role and all three got involved in keeping his motivation high despite the enormous difficulties he had to overcome. Over the years, they sponsored more and more young people and, in 2006, Fundación Integrar was born. We compiled the voices of our graduates in a video that can be accessed at https://youtu.be/rwJfy3WBInM
Over time, the peer support became a methodological approach: the scholarship holders receive a stipend, academic advice during their career, emotional support from a mentor, and workshops and training activities to ensure their job readiness.
Today, Fundación Integrar is proud to have 200 graduates and more than 150 students. Most importantly, in a country with the highest youth unemployment in the region, 90 percent of Integrar graduates have a formal job, the vast majority of which is related to their field of study and they report being satisfied or very satisfied with their lives.
Although we currently face a difficult economic situation and the annual inflation is expected to be over 100 percent, Fundacion Integrar was able to increase the number of vacancies available for the 2023 school year.
There were 192 applicants to the 2023 IntegrarTEC the scholarship program for those who want to learn coding and programming. Forty two students were selected and we are thrilled that half of them are women, an increment of 20 percentage points over the previous cohort. In addition, this year the IntegrarTEC program will be longer and more intensive. Last year we offered a Fullstack course and a complementary Java Script course for graduates, while this year we will offer a Fullstack (+) course of 110 hrs of duration and a 60 hour long training in TypeScript.
Soon we will start our annual information campaign to reach new scholarship candidates; we will continue our fundraising campaign, and we will conduct several training workshops focused on employability and life skills.
Thank you for your support!
By Anabella Maudet | Executive Director
By Anabella Maudet | Executive Director
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