Education Without Borders or “Educación Sin Fronteras” (ESF), founded in 1988, is an NGO focused on development, its goal being to use education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

 to craft a more just caring world. It hopes to reach these goals using two distinct methods: international action and cooperation focused on development in the Southern countries of the world, as well as, promoting change and awareness in every community at home.

ESF's objective is to be an organization committed to defending and promoting quality education as a fundamental human right applicable to all. ESF believes education to be the driving force in the transformation and development of individuals and their communities. ESF also believes education to be instrumental in the development of a fair, non discriminatory society which offers opportunities to all people.

ESF considers transparency and quality indispensable in its work. It is a member of the Coordination Development NGO's of Spain (CONGDE), and is subject to the code of conduct which regulate the activities of its member groups. En March, 2007, ESF received the classification by the International Cooperation Agency of Spain (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional) (AECI) as an NGO specialized in education.

Objectives

ESF carries out its goals in the countries of the South, using the following initiatives:

• Qualififcation for professional educators. Training professional educators in the countries of the South.
• Youth vocational training: Work opportunities and basic training for young people in a variety of different trades.
• Strengthening civil society
  Civil society
  Civil society is composed of the totality of many voluntary social relationships, civic and social organizations, and institutions that form the basis of a functioning society, as distinct from the force-backed structures of a state , the commercial institutions of the market, and private criminal...
  
  . Support in the formation of methods and means to existing NGO's in the countries of the South.
• Creating educational centers. Helping give the 275 million children without schooling access to a basic as well as specific education.

Currently, ESF carries out international cooperation and development projects in Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

, El Salvador

El Salvador

El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

, Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

, Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

 and , the Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

, in collaboration with local counterparts.