Ecuador - Ambato

Students: 17
Where HOPE is given: After-school program and tutoring
Began partnering with E=H: February 2022

The Philadelphia Bible Church was founded in May 2016. The leaders began to serve the children of their community with biblical discipleship, food, games, and meeting basic needs. Then they became an official church, and God has guided them to be a community that cares for the needy, trying to satisfy both spiritual and material needs using the offerings collected in the church.

The Education Equals Hope program helps children in elementary and middle school to continue with their studies and not drop out of school. After-school tutoring sessions, where the children receive both academic help and lessons from the Bible, enable students who need extra instruction to stay on par with grade level standards. There are many students in public institutions with noticeable gaps in their learning after the pandemic. Their dream is that the children in the program can be tutored in various subjects, most of all math, so that there are not huge gaps in their learning.