In 2025, Edify’s team in Ecuador transitioned from pilot work to full operations. During the pilot phase, the team focused on building relationships, testing systems, and demonstrating the value of Edify’s model in local schools. With board approval now in place, the Ecuador team is entering a new chapter marked by greater organizational stability, increased staffing, and the opportunity to expand its programs and impact. With more schools choosing Christ-centered transformation, this growth comes at a critical time. Ecuador’s challenges do not stay neatly outside the school gate. Insecurity weighs on communities. When power cuts, such as those during the recent energy crisis, hit, they can last up to 14 hours a day, classes can be interrupted, and learning momentum can stall. Simultaneously, Ecuador’s fragile economy leaves many families making month-to-month decisions about what they can afford. This is a pivotal time for Edify’s presence in Ecuador.
Through a partnership with Edify, Santa María del Rosario, where Principal Azucena Loachamin serves children ages three to 11, is witnessing the profound impact happening. Before Edify, she recalls, the school faced a challenge that felt “very big.” They needed technology for learning, and a realistic way to pay for it. Loachamin shares, “The accompaniment is so close. They have helped us through trainings, they have always been looking out for us, and their closeness makes us trust them.”
Strength to Keep Building
Edify’s trainings equip school leaders and teachers with Christ-centered formation and practical school improvement that they can implement immediately. Then, through Edify’s network of local lending partners, Santa María del Rosario accessed low-interest credit to purchase tools like a printer and projector that support parent training and classroom learning. Now, education technology is part of daily instruction, and the school can keep building as resources allow.
Transformation Multiplied
Across Ecuador, this momentum is multiplying in schools just like Santa María del Rosario. In 2025, 260 schools will have access to Book Smart, a tool for students that strengthens learning and supports wise, purposeful use of technology. In parallel, 252 Discipleship Clubs are creating spaces for students to open God’s Word, pray together, and learn what it looks like to follow Jesus in everyday life. As Loachamin looks ahead, she is clear about what is still needed: “There are still many things to do…We now have access to lending for technological materials, but we need support for new infrastructure, laboratories, and classrooms, so Edify in Ecuador can keep contributing to education in our country.” Santa María del Rosario is one glimpse of what is possible when schools are strengthened through partnership and a Christ-centered community, and it is only the beginning.
