ProFuturo

ProFuturo, the initiative driven by Fundación Telefónica and Fundación ”la Caixa” to bring digital education to young boys and girls in vulnerable environments, has already benefited around 10 million young boys and girls in 45 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

ProFuturo is a digital education program launched by Fundación Telefónica and Fundación ”la Caixa” with the mission to reduce the educational divide in the world by providing quality digital education to young boys and girls in vulnerable environments in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Its objective is to reach 25 million by 2030.

Created in July 2016, in the September of the same year it was presented at a global level during the inter-religious meeting “Sed de paz: religiones y culturas en diálogo” [Thirst for Peace: Religions and Cultures in Dialog], at which 3,000 people gathered at the Italian city of Assisi.

Since then, the project has done nothing but grow. Last year, César Alierta, after being appointed the global assessor for the United Nations in Digital Education and Sustainable Development, presented ProFuturo before the UN and then at the G20 Summit on Africa held in Berlin. ProFuturo has also signed agreements with SDGFund, the UN’s Fund for the Sustainable Development Goals, and with the Organization of American States (OAS) to promote the project in Latin America and the Caribbean.

ProFuturo has also signed agreements with SDGFund, the UN’s Fund for the Sustainable Development Goals, and with the Organization of American States (OAS) to promote the project in Latin America and the Caribbean. To carry out its work, ProFuturo currently has allies such as Education Cannot Wait, Fundación Entreculturas, World Vision and Save The Children.

According to UNESCO, at least 750 million young people and adults still do not know how to read and write and 250 million children do not manage to obtain basic numeracy and literacy skills.

The objective of ProFuturo is to reduce the educational divide through quality and equal education using digital tools that will allow millions of children to be able to face the challenges of an increasingly technological world.

In each country where it is present, ProFuturo reaches agreements with agents -private, public and from the tertiary sector- that are leaders in the area of Education and International Cooperation.

ProFuturo successfully takes an already proven model one step further through different initiatives such as Proniño or Aulas Fundación Telefónica, which have taken its teacher training project -nearly 30,000 teachers trained- to all the Latin American countries where the company is present, and has had an impact on 610,000 children in more than 1,000 schools.  Now it is joining forces with Fundación ”la Caixa”, which has been working in the education field for more than a decade.

ProFuturo is the continuation and the strengthening of the historic commitment of Telefónica and ”la Caixa” towards education through technology and innovation as vehicles for social transformation.