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based on the understanding of justice, reciprocity and fair play, lived with courage and ‘grit’.

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Empower Venezuelan Children to Succeed.

Giving children and adolescents a clear view.

of how to build their own personality and happy future, free of
stereotyping.

Eliminating the Vicious Cycle of Poverty and living with the Virtuous Cycle of Values.

Providing guidance with the latest knowledge of brain development

and the resulting progression of existencial stages applied to values education.

Alive to the World is available in 24 countries

with regional adaptations, in 8 languages

Alive to the World is available for Remote Learning and Homeschooling.

with an interactive, digital version at BlinkLearning

Books

Student Books and Teacher Guides, Grades K-12.

Getting to Know Myself

Pre-school

Getting to Know Myself corresponds to the first level of formal education. It emphasizes the child’s self image and the children’s basic acknowledgement of the “I” and the awareness of their body. It focuses on the children recognizing and becoming aware of their feelings in order to nurture the positive and control the negative ones.

Happy and Healthy

6 – 7 years

Happy and Healthy begins by setting the children in the context of their own family. Feelings are analyzed in order to favor and further positive ones and control negative ones. Feelings are pointed out and explained in order to bit by bit gain control over them.

A Great Team

7 – 8 years

This volume illustrates the basic virtues needed for daily life through the practice of the values of sports. The importance of honesty, following the rules, the responsibility of playing one’s position within a game, the sense of team leadership.

Mine, Yours or Ours

8 – 9 years

Mine, Yours or Ours has been written to addressed to the nine-year-old in fourth grade. At this point, the academic expectations of the child increase significantly.

Different and Complementary

9 – 10 years

Different and Complementary continues the story of Charles and Alicia, their friends and families. Our characters discover the great diversity of persons and talents that exists in the world around them and learn to value not only their own individuality, but that of others.

Friends!

10 – 11  years

Friends! responds to the pre-teen’s increasing interest in and need for good peer relationships. With big developmental tasks ahead, the 11-12 year old must learn to understand the basic values of friendship and acquire the virtues and skills that make it possible.

Changes and Challenges

11 – 12 years

Changes and Challenges responds to the young teenager who is no longer fully a child and yet not fully launched into adolescence.

The twelfth-thirteenth year is a transitional one, where the new issues of adolescence collide with some of the old issues of childhood.

Personality Plus

12 – 13 years

In Personality Plus, Charles and his classmates start Sex Education with their new teacher Mr. Brown, a teacher who makes them think. During the course of the school year, Charles and Alice together with their friends go over many different aspects of Sex Education with Mr. Brown.

Worth Waiting For

13 – 14 years

This time around, these now familiar characters will give us a chance to explore in greater detail some of the concepts dealt with in the previous book, such as personality awareness and peer pressure.

Feelings and Ambitions

14 – 15 years

Book 10 of the Alive to the World / AW Series will take a closer look at life’s most fascinating subject: love.

Eddie, one of Charles and Alice’s friends, will come across several aspects of human relationships, together with his new friend Patty.

The Future Begins Now

15 – 16 years

A new group of teenagers are the main characters of The Future Begins Now!

They explore the fundamental decisions and attitudes that will help them establish the foundations for a happy and balanced life.

Major Decisions

16 – 17 years

Two teenagers who were introduced in Book 11 are the main characters in this book, and through their relationship, the meaning and value of true lasting love is discussed.

Ready for Take-Off

17 – 18 years

To understand that choices determine who one is and what one’s life will be.

Us

Alive to the World ®

Alive to the World® is currently available in Spanish and English (K-12). Elementary levels are available in German, French, Hungarian, Romanian, Portuguese and Korean.

  • Student Books contain an ongoing, fictional story about a group of children who face situations of universal application.
  • Teacher Guides help prepare each lesson and include the conceptual framework and methodological suggestions for engaging students and reaching each session’s objectives.
  • We offer a basic Teacher Training Course, in 16 hour workshop.
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Blog

News

EMPOWER CHILDREN TO SUCCEED IN VENEZUELA!

We are extremely hopeful, in the midst of the present crisis, with our new project designed to provide character building and life skills, as well as a daily meal to children and teens, particularly in our most vulnerable areas. Starting Sept. 15, 2020 we have...

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Digital Books for Sale

We are happy to inform our new US digital edition is now available at the BlinkLearning Educational Platform www.blinklearning.com. Sample chapters of Alive to the World Student Books and Teacher Guides (Grades K-12) can be viewed at...

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New ATW Representatives in Mexico

Dynamic changes have occured for Alive to the World in Mexico, as Red Familia, a reputed and very pro-active pro-family NGO assumes our representation and promotion, as well teacher training. Red Familia members have been successfully trained by Alafa educational...

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Don’t let the light go out!

A few years ago, in 2010, the entire world was watching Chile, a country which, in spite of all pessimistic projections, managed to rescue the 33 miners who spent 69 days trapped under the earth. That achievement was a symbol of all that this country, small and...

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Allies

Caracas Baseball club

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Fe y Alegría

Fipan

SBS sports business

UPEL (Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador

Fundación Cisneros

Universidad Católica Andrés Bello

IPC (Instituto pedagógico de Caracas)

Asociación para la educación popular

Fundación Mano Amiga

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Learnex

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African family life federation

Program for Family Development