The TechRen academic work-study community center project was started to provide a positive comfortable energetic atmosphere for learning, physical fitness, and recreation to the residence of Anguilla.  

The facility will be located in Statia Valley, minutes from the Valley.

     

Community centers are not just for seniors, not just for kids, not just for families. They can offer an enormous variety of educational, social and recreational activities, tailored to what the members of the community are interested in. Community potlucks, singles nights, afterschool programs and tutoring, health, wellness and exercise classes, crafts, lectures, dances, music performances...to name just a few examples. When we reach out to our neighbors and make new friends (or renew old ones), our quality of life is increased. The TechRen Foundation is hoping to create a meeting place for all ages with programming aimed at a wide variety of needs and interests. 

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The community center will expand on our current work study programs listed on our home page by also providing all participants an opportunity to continually enhance their learning and study skills through a series of workshops. These work-shops will include academic power studying, time management, textbook reading, note taking, and test taking.   

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Education in Anguilla:

The Education in Anguilla is compulsory between the ages of 5 and 17. In 1998, the gross primary enrollment rate was 100.7 percent, and the net primary enrollment rate was 98.9 percent. The government has collaborated with UNESCO to develop an Education for All plan that aims to raise educational achievement levels, improve access to quality special education services and provide human resource training for teachers and education managers.

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The Island of Anguilla:

Anguilla is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean.  It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin.  The territory consists of the main island of Anguilla, approximately 16 miles (26 km) long by 3 miles (5 km) wide at its widest point, together with a number of much smaller islands and cays with no permanent population. The island's capital is The Valley. The total land area of the territory is 35 square miles (90 km2), with a population of approximately 13,500 (2020 estimate).

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