The school aims to nurture wise, sensitive, strong, autonomous, fair, and balanced human beings.
The institution will begin operations in January 2025 in La Pintada, Antioquia, at the Julio C. Hernández educational campus. This campus is owned by the Fundación Fomento a la Educación JCH and hosts CESDE and COMFAMA facilities.
Nueva Paideia is a coeducational institution designed for rural youth from low-income families in the Southwestern region of Antioquia. It offers three years of secondary education: 9th, 10th, and 11th grades. Each class will accommodate 23 students, one from each municipality in the region, if they meet the required criteria. The school is fully licensed and registered with a DANE code.
Students will reside in a dormitory from Monday to Friday. Transportation will be provided from Bolombolo to the campus on Mondays at 8:00 a.m., with return trips on Fridays at 3:00 p.m. The residential experience is an integral part of the educational program.
The Paideia Program provides scholarships contingent on good behavior and excellent academic performance during the final three years of high school. In a second phase, students will have the opportunity to apply for additional conditional scholarships for higher education.
In a third phase, if these young professionals return to the Southwestern region and wish to begin their careers locally, they will be offered advisory services and low-interest loans to support entrepreneurial initiatives.
Conditions for Selection:
1. Socioeconomic Condition: Youth from
low-income families residing in the Southwestern region.
2.
Intellectual Condition: High cognitive abilities.
3. Attitudinal
Condition: A positive attitude and enthusiasm for study and learning.
Nueva Paideia School will implement a playful-cognitive pedagogy designed to identify students’ interests and talents. The school will emphasize research and creativity, including the creation of a virtual magazine to publish students’ work.
Students will also have access to a specialized arts and crafts classroom, where they will learn to work with materials such as wood, clay, leather, fabric, and paper.
The teaching team will consist of rigorously selected and trained professionals dedicated to achieving the school’s mission. Additionally, a group of volunteer workshop leaders will support the innovative Nueva Paideia pedagogical approach.
The school will maintain land for growing food products suited to a tropical dry climate and undertake small productive projects to teach students financial and entrepreneurial skills. Moreover, Nueva Paideia students will have the opportunity to begin one of the technical programs offered by CESDE at the Julio C. Hernández campus.
Finally, the Paideia Program seeks partners willing to contribute either pedagogically or financially. If you are interested in collaborating, please contact us via WhatsApp at +573176391756.
From 2017, Oro Molido Foundation supports young students with outstanding
academic performance and vocation for the areas that contribute to rural
development.
Through these scholarships, low-income students
have the opportunity to pursue a technical or professional career,
receiving economic resources and psycho-social support, so that they can
graduate successfully and become agents of transformation in their social
environment.
To achieve this, we receive some donations and are
engaged in alliances with other non-profit organizations which also seek
to help improve the quality of life or rural communities and to offer
tools to young people and their families in the search of a better future.
Manuel Antonio Yepes
Danilo Suaza
We work on designing research projects based on needs and inquiries coming from the rural sector of southwestern Antioquia. Elementary, middle school, and high school students, and students who received scholarships from the foundation are the ones in charge of leading these projects. They fulfill their social work by answering questions arising from problems in the territory.
This has allowed us to align project-based learning with the school curriculum of some public educational institutions, train teachers on the structuring of classroom projects, and motivate dozens of students to pursue higher education. For us, this is the necessary path to promote the development of the rural sector in our country
Maria Isabel Grajales
The purpose of our projects is to create a different environment that
integrates rural communities that are impacted by us, so that they are
able to turn their problems into new opportunities for sustainable
development.
The projects have been designed to work on three
lines: health, education, and infrastructure.
To comply with and
develop its projects, the Oro Molido S.A. family supplies resources,
receives donations, and creates strategic alliances with other
organizations and foundations, which helps creating a higher impact
As part of our efforts for promoting music and improving education as a vehicle for community peace and development, we support the creation of music schools.
Lessons include music theory and introduction to instruments. Students have the opportunity to form ensembles where they can demonstrate their skills through different music styles, from traditional to classical music.
This program has allowed us to discover students that have a special talent for music, giving them a new life opportunity. As a Foundation, we are committed to supporting their talent and artistic future.
Jorge Armando García
Samuel Castaño
The Foundation is committed to promoting culture through the creation and
implementation of music and marching bands. These recreational activities
improve the students’ ties and integration with the members of the
community.
To date, three peace marching bands are sponsored by
the Foundation. They represent their municipalities in regional and
national events. The program manages three pedagogical processes: Music
initiation, instrumental training, and marching.
Estefanía Quintero
Juan David Cano
Heiber Méndez (instructor)