About
Fundación La Fuente (La Fuente Educational and Cultural Foundation) is a non-profit institution engaged in promoting and implementing educational and cultural initiatives that benefit the low-income population. Its strategy is based on implementing educational and cultural programs to be developed both inside schools, in support to the educational goals of the school while integrating the entire school community, as well as in public or private institutions that sponsor the programs.
Who we are
Fundación La Fuente’s Board of Directors is a distinguished group of leaders whose strategic decision-making and guidance steer the organization. La Fuente is a non ideological and non-profit organization and that fact is reflected in the selection of the members of the board.
La Fuente staff members bring a variety of backgrounds and experience to the organization. Our team includes: primary and secondary teachers, literature experts, actors, musicians, commercial engineers, sociologists, psycopedagogists, librarians and management experts.
What we do
La Fuente has been developing a line of work, since 2000, based on implementing school libraries, improving public libraries, equipping mobile school and community libraries and developing museums and cultural centres in both urban and rural areas of the country. It has also provided the help of project supervisors who undertake different activities, courses and workshops addressed especially to students, teachers, parents and the community in general.
Each experience lasts for one to two years during which the permanence of the project is strengthened and once La Fuente has completed its task, the responsibility is then handed over to persons designated by the Municipality or School Board, who have been duly trained over that same period.
Fundación La Fuente and Mall Plaza Holding formed a partnership to develop Public Libraries inside shopping centers, the first ones in Latin America. Biblioteca Viva is a project that considers the design, building, equipping and staff for public libraries with around 10.000 books, special training and reading areas (for children and adults) and computer rooms in a 300 m² space. To date, we have implemented ten libraries: six in the Metropolitan Region, one in the Second Region, one in the Fourth and two in the Eighth Region of Chile.
