Advancing Students Forward

Scholarships - scholarships are awarded to at risk students in various communities in tijuana, mexico, enabling them to attend school beyond sixth grade. Students are required to attend monthly meetings, participate in service projects, and maintain good grades. Each year, an average of 70 at risk students from various communities in tijuana, mexico are given economic assistance. In mexico, fifty percent of students do not complete their education after sixth grade because they must pay for tuition and books. In many communities, the schools cannot accommodate the number of students wanting to enroll due to lack of space. As a result, many students wishing to continue their studies must enroll in schools in neighboring communities and thiscompounds the expense incurred by them to continue school. Asf students are required to attend monthly meetings, participate in service projects, and maintain good grades. Scholarships are given on a monthly basis to help with the tuition and educational expenses, provided the students have fulfilled their monthly requirements and obligations to the program. Work study opportunities are alsoavailable to the students. Asf students staff the community center by providing office support and tutoring more than 70 children from the neighborhood. They serve as teachers for the many classes offered to the community, including homework support, english, and computer classes. Participants of asf also prepare the curriculum and staff the month-long summer camp program for more than one hundredelementary school children. Asf students are looked upon as role models in the community.