PLANO, Texas – PepsiCo Meals North America (PFNA) is proud to announce a $150,000 funding to reinforce digital literacy coaching throughout the nation by way of its partnership with LULAC Nationwide Academic Service Facilities (LNESC). This initiative comes as a vital response to a staggering statistic: 32 million Individuals lack important digital expertise. [1]
To handle 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, consistent with its key enterprise priorities. Since 2022, PepsiCo has donated over $500,000 to LNSEC’s Pathways to Uplift and Empower by way of Novel Know-how and Schooling Providers (P.U.E.N.T.E.S.) program, which supplies very important coaching and academic assist for households equipping them with the talents, sources, and instruments wanted to achieve success in a digital atmosphere.
With PFNA’s assist, the P.U.E.N.T.E.S. program has reached 450 individuals throughout six U.S. cities, creating transformative studying environments that equip households with important know-how 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 schooling standpoint, however it created new alternatives for her to bond along with her son and strengthened the household’s connections with the college and their neighborhood.
In response to Urbina, “This system is about extra than simply know-how. We’ve created a robust community with different households. This system has facilitated communication throughout completely different cultures and generations, which is very necessary in Hispanic communities.” By means of this system, households take part in cohorts, encouraging intergenerational involvement and making a secure house to study precious laptop expertise. Households acquire familiarity with the digital instruments wanted to interact with and monitor their baby’s tutorial progress, empowering them to observe new expertise collectively at residence.
Alongside fostering a way of neighborhood and belonging, this system is demonstrating measurable affect. Upon completion of this system, outcomes present:
- Over 90% of individuals have elevated confidence with know-how.
- Over 90% of individuals really feel snug utilizing know-how to study new expertise.
- 92% of individuals really feel snug utilizing an digital system to carry out primary laptop features (e.g., e-mail, workplace purposes, and so on.).
“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,” stated 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 permits dad and mom to work together successfully with faculty officers and different neighborhood stakeholders.
Individuals are granted entry to the huge world of alternative out there by way of know-how, 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,” stated LNESC Govt Director Richard Roybal. “Listening to tales from individuals 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 study extra about LNESC and the P.U.E.N.T.E.S. program, go to www.LNESC.org/packages/puentes.
About PepsiCo
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About LNESC
LULAC Nationwide Academic Service Facilities, Inc. (LNESC) was established in 1973 by the League of United Latin American Residents (LULAC) to offer instructional programming to high-need college students all through the U.S. and Puerto Rico. All through 16 schooling and know-how facilities, LNESC has served over 621,000 college students, despatched 160,000 college students on to varsity, and awarded almost $31 million in scholarships. LNESC’s outcomes are made doable by a community of devoted subject workers, top-notch lecturers, over 90 faculty companions, and the assist of LULAC – the nation’s largest membership-based Latino group. LNESC works to alter lives and construct Latino communities, one pupil at a time. www.LNESC.org
[1] DigitalUS Coalition, 2020
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