Education for children and youths in the ITAF

Since 1987, the Technical, Agricultural and Forestry Institutes – ITAF, offer basic and intermediate secondary and technical schooling for young farmers in the area of ​​influence of Smurfit Kappa in the municipalities of El Tambo and Cajibío in Cauca and in Darién, in the Valle del Cauca. These institutes seek to contribute to the comprehensive education of children and young people, with basic, civic, labour and business skills, to be active citizens who know and value the countryside and can lead productive projects that contribute to the development of their communities.

Thanks to the pedagogical Alternate Education model implemented in the ITAF of El Tambo, and to the development of productive projects in the institutes, we stimulate in the young people a commitment to their families and communities, contributing to diminish the urban migration.