Alma Children's Education Foundation
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Mission Statement
The Alma Foundation works with remote indigenous communities in Peru and Bolivia to create unique curriculum based on local indigenous culture and wisdom. Our educational programs use project and play-based learning to teach creative and critical thinking along with harmonious values.
About This Cause
The Alma Foundation was created by Alan Harman after a lengthy family trip through South America in 2008. He was deeply moved by the poverty and grace he experienced in remote indigenous communities in Southern Peru, and was inspired to help improve the quality of life there. After consulting development experts in Peru and Canada, he decided that investing in early childhood education would provide the greatest opportunity to improve well-being over the long term. He developed a set of guiding principles that he felt would have a sustainable impact and founded the Alma Children’s Education Foundation in 2010 based on those principles. Since then the charity has developed it’s own unique play-based and project-based curriculum focused on critical thinking. The curriculum is derived 100% from local context, culture and language. In 2022, we trained 13,124 teachers in Peru and 17,926 in Bolivia and 395,656 students were exposed to the Alma curriculum.