Robles del Futuro is an extracurricular activity that is created to educate and train young people of ages between 13 and 18 - students of basic and diversified education - in leadership skills, socio-emotional competencies and civic management, and thus complement in them the absence of content from that nature in the Venezuelan educational curriculum.
The following are three components that represent the formative execution in the Robles del Futuro program:
Programmatic contents: where the exercise of life, leadership and social entrepreneurship skills are combined with experiential learning and avant-garde methodologies such as theatrical improvisation, bio dance and individual strengths, vocational coaching and mindfulness boot camp
Mentoring in the Goal Plan: personalized accompaniment through 15 follow-up sessions with mentors trained in planning, to encourage the young person to achieve three self-identified goals: Academic, Well-being and Common Good over a period of 9 months.
Youth Initiative for the Common Good: group work lasting 10 months that sensitizes young people to the problems of the environment and promotes them as agents of change. It encompasses learning by projects, the identification of a problem, a proposal for approach, implementation and systematization of the results of entrepreneurship with a social focus.
297 leaders have received scholarships since its inception in 2011 and 806 have been the direct beneficiaries of their social projects. The Robles del Futuro Program has had a direct impact on 300 schools in the metropolitan area of Venezuela, established in 3 states in the central region of the country (Miranda, the Capital District and Vargas) and 9 municipalities that comprise it. Some of the graduates have promoted their social enterprises to continue impacting more people: sports and values schools, community intervention programs for families in Caracas neighborhoods, and care for the elderly. Likewise, 4 graduates are part of the work team of the Civil Association conducting various programming. We currently offer the program's methodology and resources to partner schools.
Robles del Futuro has been developed so that it can be applied by other actors, and for this reason its programmatic structure is sufficiently systematized and documented. Based on the shared educational model of Robles del Futuro, a group of graduates developed the Eudomonía project, a training proposal for 68 young people in their 5th year of high school at the Andrés Bello Didactic Institute.
