MISSION SANTA MARIA
10 SPRING LANE, WARREN, NJ 07059 missionsantamaria.com

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Organizations Filed Purposes: TO HELP AND SUPPORT THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH OF ECUADOR

School Scholarship Program: Santa Maria del Fiat is a preschool through secondary school, referred to hereafter as the mission school, that has been providing high quality education to children of the surrounding area for 26 years. It is the best school in Santa Elena province, with over 1,200 students. Some children travel 90 minutes one-way by bus to attend this school. Mission Santa Maria has been supporting the mission school for over 10 years through a scholarship program. In 2019, 180 students received full and partial scholarships through Mission Santa Maria. Many of these children would simply not attend school if it were not for our scholarship program. The mission school has a partnership with the government whereby the government pays most of their teachers, but also mandates the cost of tuition, total staff requirements, minimum salary for all staff, and administrative requirements. In 2019, this created a structural deficit whereby the mission school could not generate enough income to cover their operational expenses. In 2019 Mission Santa Maria provided funding to cover this structural deficit that would otherwise have forced the school to close.

Boy's Program:Our boys program provides boys from the poorest families in our area with housing, meals, school supplies, uniforms, and transportation to school. These boys come from places so interior or from families that are so resource limited, that without housing and shelter during the week, they would not be able to attend school. In 2019, 15 boys benefited from this program. In addition, in 2019 we sent four boys that had graduated from secondary school to vocational programs such as cooking and computer certification courses. Through our boys program, in 2019 we identified other resource limited families with children already on our scholarship program at the mission school that needed additional financial assistance. In 2019, we supported 40 of these children with uniforms, books, school supplies, and school transportation.

University Program:Mission Santa Maria provides scholarships for exceptional students to achieve a higher level of education in university. Although there is no tuition for public universities in Ecuador, supplemental costs such as for books and supplies, as well as for housing and food, often prohibit young adults from attending university. In 2019, we tripled the number of children on our university scholarship program from four to twelve.

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