Successful literacy support program expands in the territory

In 2020, Compañía Minera del Pacífico (CMP) and the Sara Raier de Rassmuss Foundation joined forces to bring the Alfadeca program, which promotes literacy skills in elementary school children, to the territory.

Thus, through counseling and training spaces, the renowned program was implemented in the classrooms of the Mireya Zuleta and José Miguel Carrera schools in Huasco and Alejandro Noemí Huerta in Freirina, with fruitful results to date.

Recently, and after adding schools in the municipalities of La Higuera and Coquimbo, we managed to replicate this successful program in the educational processes of the schools El Olivar de Huasco Bajo, Virginia San Ramón de Maitencillo and Moisés López Trujillo de Canto del Agua.

Along with the implementation of Alfadeca, CMP promoted a Corporate Volunteering program for workers to accompany students in reading stories. In this regard, the company's People Manager, Carolina Lomuscio, said that "we made an open call to all our staff, with the aim that they contribute as story readers for children, reinforcing the program, which is in line with our purpose of promoting the sustainable development of the territories where we are present and their people".

It is worth mentioning that within the framework of the alliance, support material has been provided to teachers, classroom teams and students, and spaces for teacher training and support have been created.

The Alfadeca program is a methodology born from international experience and how a child's brain learns to read and write. It is developed under the need to enhance the skills of teachers to achieve impact results that allow children to learn to read and write in 1st grade.