“Walking together a path of learning and transformation”
Fundashon Awenyo
Awenyo is a local not-for-profit Foundation, registered in Willemstad, Curaçao with an aim of contributing to the betterment of the Caribbean region and all people through training and capacity building programs that foster learning, leadership, and empowerment for social transformation.
Our work centers on three interwoven lines of action:
Training and enhancing the capabilities of educators to engage their students more meaningfully in their own learning & devlopment;
Empowering youth with the knowledge & skills to arise and lead in efforts at community building;
Developing curricula that focus on character building, moral leadership, and social action.
Curaçao
Based out of the Caribbean island of Curaçao, a name that signifies, “the healing of the heart”— Awenyo’s team is dedicated to the upliftment of all its peoples, whose diversity and warmth, drawn from more than 170 nationalities living in harmony, reflecting a hope for what the rest of the world might one day embody.
Awakening human potential for the betterment of society.
The name Awenyo comes from the Akan language of West Africa — a region tied deeply to the heritage of the people of Curaçao. It carries the meaning of unity, connection, and shared hope for the future.
It speaks to our vision of helping to weave lives and communities together with a shared purpose and hope. It also reflects our belief that communities grow stronger when we walk together along a path of learning, service, and the unfolding of human potential.
Our Focus Areas
1
Capacity Building for Teachers
Supporting educators to become protagonists of their own reflective practice — renewing purpose, reimagining their role, and cultivating approaches that awaken potential
2
Youth Empowerment
Awakening in youth a sense of purpose and service, and accompanying them as they develop the skills and courage to become builders of a better world.
3
Curricula for Moral Leadership
Developing educational materials for schools and communities around character building and moral leadership.
Applying a Shared Vision in Meaningful Action
Our work unfolds in many spaces from the classroom, training centres, to numerous social spaces where learning leads to meaningful action, and action fosters transformation. In our work with teachers, they come to see themselves as active protagonists in collective learning, reflecting and analyzing classroom experience together, and as catalysts for nurturing and helping to release the innate potential of each student.
In our work with youth empowerment, participants gradually begin to see themselves as capable and active contributors that can, however modestly, play a role in re-imagining and shaping communities and a better world.
Rooted in a Vision
We believe education is more than the transfer of information, or a set of formula and facts to assimilate — it is a far more potent means for unlocking and allowing for the unfoldment of human potential. When education is rooted in values and connected to a vision of service, it has the power to awaken purpose, unlock & release capacity, and be the surest means for the transforming our world.
In many places, teachers feel overburdened and unsupported, and equally young people lack meaningful opportunities to tap into this potential within.
And educational systems in so many parts of the world fall woefully short of nurturing the qualities and capabilities most urgently needed in today’s world — empathy, resilience, and a sense of responsibility for the greater good.
Awenyo exists to respond to this need — not by imposing solutions, but by walking alongside those who are already planting seeds of change. We aim to accompany teachers, youth, and communities on a path of learning, action, and shared growth.
is not an event. It is the steady, patient unfolding of the human spirit, and when its potential finds expression in service, it becomes the foundation for weaving a new social fabric.”
“Transformation
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