PLANO, Texas – PepsiCo Meals North America (PFNA) is proud to announce a $150,000 funding to reinforce digital literacy coaching throughout the nation via its partnership with LULAC Nationwide Instructional Service Facilities (LNESC). This initiative comes as a important response to a staggering statistic: 32 million Individuals lack important digital expertise. [1]
To deal with this hole, PFNA’s funding emphasizes the significance of fostering digital expertise from an early age and throughout generations to unlock instructional and financial alternatives, according to its key enterprise priorities. Since 2022, PepsiCo has donated over $500,000 to LNSEC’s Pathways to Uplift and Empower via Novel Expertise and Schooling Providers (P.U.E.N.T.E.S.) program, which supplies important coaching and academic help for households equipping them with the talents, sources, and instruments wanted to achieve success in a digital surroundings.
With PFNA’s help, the P.U.E.N.T.E.S. program has reached 450 members throughout six U.S. cities, creating transformative studying environments that equip households with important expertise expertise – together with a San Antonio household whose six-year-old son is a part of the bilingual program. Melody Urbina discovered it not solely helped from an training standpoint, nevertheless it created new alternatives for her to bond together with her son and strengthened the household’s connections with the varsity and their group.
In accordance with Urbina, “This system is about extra than simply expertise. We’ve created a robust community with different households. This system has facilitated communication throughout completely different cultures and generations, which is particularly necessary in Hispanic communities.” By this system, households take part in cohorts, encouraging intergenerational involvement and making a secure house to be taught invaluable laptop expertise. Households acquire familiarity with the digital instruments wanted to interact with and monitor their youngster’s tutorial progress, empowering them to follow new expertise collectively at dwelling.
Alongside fostering a way of group and belonging, this system is demonstrating measurable affect. Upon completion of this system, outcomes present:
- Over 90% of members have elevated confidence with expertise.
- Over 90% of members really feel comfy utilizing expertise to be taught new expertise.
- 92% of members really feel comfy utilizing an digital system to carry out primary laptop features (e.g., e-mail, workplace purposes, and many others.).
“As somebody who immigrated to the U.S. from Venezuela, I’m extremely pleased with our partnership with LNESC and our shared ardour to create sustainable financial alternatives for underserved communities,” mentioned Antonio Escalona, SVP, Rising Enterprise at PepsiCo Meals North America. “Placing folks and their experiences on the forefront is important to our enterprise success. We take nice satisfaction in our efforts to reinforce digital literacy, and we’re excited to proceed supporting this impactful initiative.”
This newfound digital literacy opens doorways to financial alternatives and allows dad and mom to work together successfully with college officers and different group stakeholders.
Members are granted entry to the huge world of alternative obtainable via expertise, bridging the digital divide and enriching lives in beforehand unattainable methods.
“Persevering with this partnership with PFNA means a lot for our college students and households,” mentioned LNESC Govt Director Richard Roybal. “Listening to tales from members of how they’ve benefitted from these sources is what it’s all about. Collectively, we’re making a transformative affect on so many households, and we’re excited for what’s to come back.”
To be taught extra about LNESC and the P.U.E.N.T.E.S. program, go to www.LNESC.org/applications/puentes.
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About LNESC
LULAC Nationwide Instructional Service Facilities, Inc. (LNESC) was established in 1973 by the League of United Latin American Residents (LULAC) to supply instructional programming to high-need college students all through the U.S. and Puerto Rico. All through 16 training and expertise facilities, LNESC has served over 621,000 college students, despatched 160,000 college students on to school, and awarded almost $31 million in scholarships. LNESC’s outcomes are made attainable by a community of devoted subject workers, top-notch lecturers, over 90 college companions, and the help of LULAC – the nation’s largest membership-based Latino group. LNESC works to alter lives and construct Latino communities, one scholar at a time. www.LNESC.org
[1] DigitalUS Coalition, 2020