Fundación Alberto Baillères

Kanasín has a new option in education

Alberto Baillères Foundation educational habitat inaugurated in the neighborhood of Portal San Pedro.

With the inauguration of the Alberto Baillères Foundation’s educational habitat, home to the state of Yucatan’s first technical secondary and upper secondary school, Kanasín has a new option in education.

Alongside Alejandro Díaz de León Carrillo and Rosy Isela Gluyas Fitch —Board Member and Director, respectively, of the Alberto Baillères Foundation— María Fritz Sierra, head of the Office of the Governor, walked through this modern space, located in Kanasín’s Portal San Pedro neighborhood. The educational habitat integrates a secondary school and technical upper secondary school, which will benefit more than 1,400 morning class students.

Speaking before Mayor of Kanasín Edwin Bojórquez Ramírez and Liborio Vidal, head of the Secretariat of Education of the Government of the State of Yucatan (SEGEY), the head of the Office of the Governor highlighted that this municipality has undergone a striking transformation, becoming a prosperous city, with relevant investment, quality employment, and a safer, more promising environment for its inhabitants.

The official reminded those present that in just two years, the Alberto Baillères Foundation has rehabilitated five education communities here in Kanasín: the Escuela Primaria América, Escuela Primaria Víctor Manuel Martínez Herrera, and Escuela Primaria José Vasconcelos (Primary Schools), and Escuela Secundaria Técnica 71 and Escuela Secundaria Técnica 81 (Technical Secondary Schools).

Fritz Sierra recalled that the state government has created several programs aimed at supporting people of all ages in continuing and finishing their studies, including Impulso Escolar and Yucatan Digital. Furthermore, the government of Yucatan has laid the foundations for the future of the state’s youth with initiatives like STEM programs and by motivating them to study toward careers related to Information Technology.

She likewise remarked that work has gone into strengthening English language learning, improving educational infrastructure with new degrees and laboratories that specializing in those areas, and closing the gender gap with scholarships that enable women to study engineering at any of the state’s public universities.

During his remarks, Mr. Díaz de León Carrillo explained that this space, which encompasses more than 12,000 square meters of construction, is ready to receive more than 1,400 students during the morning sessions, with a planned expansion to accommodate the same number of students during the afternoon session.

He added that the school complex has 36 classrooms, workshops, computer labs, and sport fields. In the upper secondary school, students can choose to study Nursing or Tourism and Hospitality.