By providing scholarships, training for local partners, and improvement of facilities, we enable projects that guarantee an inclusive education for children living in vulnerable communities, where due to violence and extreme poverty they are at high risk of drug cartels recruitment.

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Illiteracy and lack of education have been present in Mexico for much of its history. The result of high levels of poverty, lack of fair paid jobs, government corruption, and the systemic failure of Mexico's schools has been the appearance of “los ninis”, an underclass of several million dropouts who “ni trabajan ni estudian” (i.e. neither work nor study), of whom many ended up as combatants on behalf of the cartels.