Mathura

Paraguay has a mediocre mean years of schooling when compared to other countries. To mitigate this, Paraguay’s government offers full-tuition scholarships to pursue undergraduate degrees in our country for high-school students. In order to qualify, students must met a minimum score in math and literature tests taken nationwide. However, high-schoolers systematically fail to get the bare minimum to qualify for this scholarship, and sometimes hundreds of scholarships don’t get awarded because of this. There’s obviously a systematic flaw causing this issue. However, it’s such a pity that all these scholarships never get awarded because most of these students come from underserved contexts.

Mathura is a regional initiative founded by a long friend of mine. We gave free Math and Literature classes to these students to mitigate the aforementioned issue.