CETT and PLAN International Join Forces in Honduras

Pilot program with hemispheric potential

In a bold initiative that could serve as a partnership model in countries throughout the region, CETT and PLAN International have launched a joint pilot program to train, employ and manage 100 CETT teachers in Choluteca, located in southern Honduras. PLAN will fund this project, underwriting a 3-module training process. With its completion and success, the program will be replicated in additional sites with continued funding by PLAN. The first training course began in November of 2004.

Plan International has committed to train 100 new CETT teachers in Choluteca, Honduras.

PLAN International is one of the world’s largest and most renowned development agencies, working to improve the lives of children in 45 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Founded in 1937, the organization has generated health, education, livelihood, housing, water and sanitation projects across the globe — with special emphasis on programs that benefit children.

CETT’s program in Honduras is administered by the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán (UPNFM), one of Central America’s leading teaching universities. PLAN and UPNFM are working together to provide high quality reading education training to the CETT teachers.

"In this country, we make a difference in the lives of 34,000 children and their families. Our collaboration with CETT could extend that reach dramatically—not only in Honduras, but in many of the other Latin American countries in which our two organizations operate."