The ASCIM Education Department supports formal Indigenous education in public and subsidized private institutions at the following levels: Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary. In the early years, students attend a school in their village where they are taught by teachers who speak their native language from the same linguistic group. From the second cycle onward, they transfer to the main or central school. For Tertiary Education, the Yalve Sanga Indigenous Educational Center offers Teacher Training and Higher Technical Nursing programs, with the support of the Evangelical University of Paraguay.

ASCIM collaborates with the Ministry of Education and Sciences through the supervision of Educational Areas No. 18-33 and No. 18-37 (formerly Region 3 Boquerón Zone 7 ASCIM Supervision), which oversee 51 educational institutions in Indigenous communities in the districts of Boquerón and Mariscal de Lara. Estigarribia, Filadelfia, Loma Plata, Tte. 1° Irala Fernández, and Campo Aceval, in the departments of Boquerón and Presidente Hayes.

Specific Objectives:

ASCIM’s partner communities have trained young people and adults with knowledge and skills, guided by a Christian perspective, to face life’s challenges.

By 2040, children between the ages of 8 and 9 in ASCIM’s partner indigenous communities will be able to read, write, and perform basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division).
ASCIM’s partner communities will have creative, motivated, and responsible teachers, trained and certified at the Yalve Sanga Indigenous Educational Center.
ASCIM’s partner communities will have individuals trained in leadership, administration, and management, as well as professionals in middle management positions, including those with practical rural training, and at the senior level. In the indigenous communities that are partners of ASCIM, preschool is offered for 5-year-old children in accordance with state requirements.