Fundashon
Awenyo
Fundashon Awenyo works in partnership with educators, youth, and communities to cultivate agency, purpose, and capacity—supporting learning as a lifelong, collective process rooted in service, reflection, and social contribution.
Fundashon Awenyo
Educator Capacity Building
Strengthening teachers’ professional practice through training that enhances learner-centered pedagogy, moral education, and meaningful student engagement.
Youth Empowerment & Leadership
Equipping young people with the knowledge, skills, and ethical foundations to contribute constructively to community building and social development.
Curriculum & Resource Development
Designing culturally relevant curricula and learning resources that cultivate character, moral leadership, and action-oriented citizenship.
Awenyo is a Curaçao-based nonprofit foundation dedicated to strengthening educational and social ecosystems across the Caribbean through evidence-informed capacity building, leadership development, and values-based learning.
Our work focuses on developing the human and institutional capabilities required for long-term social transformation—supporting educators, young people, and communities to lead with purpose, responsibility, and service.
Awenyo’s programs are organized around three integrated lines of action:
Rooted in Curaçao
Awenyo is rooted in Curaçao, a culturally diverse Caribbean society whose history, languages, and social fabric present both complexity and opportunity for educational development. With a population representing more than 55 nationalities and a strong tradition of multilingualism, Curaçao provides a living context in which questions of inclusion, identity, and shared responsibility are part of everyday educational practice.
In this setting, Awenyo works in close collaboration with educators, schools, government ministries, and partner organizations to support the professional growth of teachers, the moral and social empowerment of young people, and the development of educational practices responsive to local realities.
Education for Agency and Action
Across the Caribbean and beyond, communities face complex educational and social realities that cannot be addressed through technical solutions alone. Enduring change depends on learning environments that enable people to recognize their own capacities, exercise agency, and translate both knowledge as well as ethical values and purpose into meaningful action for the well-being of their communities.
Awenyo’s work is grounded in the conviction that education is most transformative when it is enabling and oriented toward agency—nurturing individuals to reflect critically, to develop capabilities, and empowered to contribute to advancing and applying knowledge in practice. Through this lens, Awenyo seeks to contribute to long-term social transformation rooted in dignity, service, and shared responsibility.
Guided by this understanding of education, Awenyo organizes its work across three interrelated lines of action that translate these principles into practice.
From Vision to Action
Teacher Capacity Building
Strengthening educators’ professional practice through reflective learning, pedagogical renewal, and values-based education.
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Youth Empowerment
Accompanying young people to develop agency, purpose, and the capacity to contribute constructively to community life.
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Curricula for Moral Leadership
Designing culturally relevant materials that integrate character development, moral leadership, and action-oriented learning.
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Awenyo works with teachers as reflective professionals whose daily practice plays a formative role in shaping students’ learning, agency, and sense of purpose. Our approach focuses on strengthening teachers’ capacity to engage in inquiry, reflection, and collective learning, so they can intentionally cultivate classroom environments in which students are encouraged to think critically, take increasing responsibility for their learning, and participate meaningfully in the life of their communities.
Rather than introducing prescriptive methods or relegating the role of teacher to scripts and technology, this work supports educators to deepen existing practice, explore new pedagogical approaches that place students’ growth, responsibility, and engagement at the center of the learning process.
Through sustained processes of dialogue, reflection, and accompaniment, teachers are supported to build coherence, confidence, and clarity in their role as educators and mentors.
Teacher
Capacity Building
Youth Empowerment for Community Building
Awenyo’s youth empowerment work supports young people to recognize their own capacities, develop a sense of purpose, and become active contributors to the well-being of their communities. Rather than positioning youth as beneficiaries alone, our programs invite them to see themselves as protagonists in processes of learning, service, and community building.
Through structured learning spaces, mentoring relationships, and opportunities for practical application, young people are supported to cultivate ethical foundations, strengthen interpersonal and leadership skills, and translate values and knowledge into constructive action. This work seeks to accompany youth as they grow in confidence and responsibility, contributing to positive social cohesion and long-term community development.
Curriculum & Learning Resources for Empowerment
Designing materials that translate values into practice
Awenyo develops culturally relevant curricula and learning resources that support character development, moral leadership, and purposeful action. These materials are designed to complement classroom instruction and community-based learning by helping learners connect ethical concepts with lived experience and real-world application.
Grounded in educational research and informed by local realities, Awenyo’s resources support educators and youth facilitators to create learning environments that foster reflection, dialogue, and service. Through stories, activities, and structured learning sequences, learners are invited to develop skills, attitudes, and values that enable them to contribute meaningfully to their families, schools, and communities.
Partners & Collaborations
Awenyo’s work is rooted in ongoing collaboration with schools, educators, community organizations, government institutions, and private-sector partners. These relationships are both a foundation of our work and an intended outcome—strengthening trust, cooperation, and shared responsibility across communities. They take varied forms, from program collaboration and advisory support to in-kind contributions and project-based funding, and are guided by shared values and a commitment to long-term social well-being.
Education & Community Engagement
Skaih School, Curaçao
Frater Aurelio S.B.O. Curaçao
Santa Rosa de Lima School, Curaçao
Curaçao American Prepatory School
GreenTeacher Curaçao
Institutional & Public Sector Engagement
University of Curaçao, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Various School Boards, Curaçao
Ministry of Education, Curaçao
International Organizations
Badi School, Panama
Rotary Club of Silicon Valley, USA
Curoil
APC – Algemeen Pensioenfonds van Curaçao
Local & Philanthropic Support
* Institutional references reflect engagement and dialogue and do not imply formal endorsement unless explicitly stated.
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
-Fundashon Awenyo
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