Parway is a Quechua word that means “to thrive, to grow up”
As a matter of fact, globalisation is everywhere. The populations living in the Amazonian forest are not on their own anymore and a number of threats are hitting them on a daily basis. Threats are ranging from the integration of changes in diet (e.g. refined sugar that ruins children’s teeth) to the destruction of the ecosystem and habitat (e.g. exploitation of the resources such as logging and mining). Because it’s not possible to stop the globalisation on the door of the Amazon forest, one of the best actions is to empower the local population to handle the current context. Education provides the tools to empower people and help them taking their context in check. Parway is designed to support education with the purpose to enable the local population to remain the subject in their ecosystem and not becoming the object of a globalised world.
Parway's projects
We want to support students from the Amazonian’s forest to ensure their education in college and university.
Parway’s scope of activities
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Raise funds via this website or via specific activities such as gala dinner,
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Setup a platform that enables the connection between students (universities and colleges) and the rest of the world to exchange services,
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Give the opportunity to the students to deliver services to individuals and companies worldwide via the platform, earning money for themselves and funding the support to elementary schools’ children,
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Provide ad hoc education to students via the platform (e.g. English training),
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Identify teenagers with potential and desire to peruse their study but unable to sustain their studies for an economical reason and support them with appropriate scholarship,
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Collect and distribute computers to support digital development and education to schools,
Compelling reasons to act
Compelling reasons to act
According to the OCDE ranking for education, Peru stands towards the end of the list. In fact, Peru came in the last place in the 2013 survey of education indicators in 65 countries carried out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Because those figures are averages over the whole country, it’s easy to understand that education in the jungle is on the lower end of the scale.
Major issues in the region
Major issues in the region
Poverty, Malnutrition, Access to safe water, Education in general, Education of the girls…