Pablo Jaramillo, Winner of 2016 GCL Impact Award
Recipient: Pablo Jaramillo, GCL Class of 2010
The 2016 GCL Impact Award was awarded to Pablo Jaramillo from Colombia. Jaramillo is the founder and CEO of Enseña por Colombia (part of the Teach for All network), a nonprofit organization that promotes quality educational opportunities facilitated by the brightest recent college graduates in Colombia. To date Enseña por Colombia has 4,600 volunteers. Jaramillo also founded Volunteers Colombia, a project to enlist English-speaking volunteers to teach English in Colombian schools. This initiative started in 2009 with five U.S. fellows and has grown considerably over the years. In 2014, there were 200 volunteers, and there are now over 800 volunteers from different English-speaking countries currently working in Colombia. The volunteers teach or co-teach for the duration of one year in existing schools located in rural areas of the country. Both of Jaramillo’s projects have been recognized by the Presidency of Colombia and the Colombian Ministry of Education. Volunteers Colombia has now been integrated into public policy under the program Colombia Bilingue 2014-2018.