ZAPOPAN, Jalisco; January 26, 2021
The UP develops its own social projects or in agreement with different institutions in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area to build a fairer and more humane world.
The main objective of the Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara is that its students graduate with a complete education in all senses.
One of the main ones is that they have a sense of social responsibility with which they use their knowledge and skills in favor of improving their community. As a result of this thinking, Labor Social UP was created.
Commitment to Society
This program, which began in 2010, consists of projects that students develop to minimize social problems. Through these projects, students are trained with a sense of social responsibility.
In addition, the projects are multidisciplinary, which encourages teamwork and the ability to bring together knowledge and skills from different careers to do good for the community.
The projects can be social, academic or environmental and are carried out in conjunction with public and social institutions.
The institutions we work with are around 65. Some of them are: children's shelters, support for children with cancer "Gorritos con Causa", Guadalajara City Hall, Be the Match, CANICA, DIF Zapopan, nursing homes, Checo Pérez Foundation, Teletón Foundation, Pequeños Nutriólogos, among others.
Students are very important in Social Engagement
The projects can also be UP's own, there are about a dozen and include Construye UP, which is celebrating a decade of existence; Comunidad UP, Centro Panamericano COLABORE, Reforestación UP, Calcuta está en todas partes and Todos Somos Blue, among others.
For Ms. Ekatherine Acosta Demerutis, Head of the Social Commitment Department, one of the greatest achievements is that after graduating from the university, students return as volunteers to the institutions because they fell in love with the cause, and that is precisely what the program seeks:
"We are looking for students to fall in love with the cause and see how to implement their knowledge to help others" he also added that:
"It's a win-win, the students strengthen the institutions and help them meet their goals and the students gain knowledge and learn from other people's experiences."
"These five sessions of social work were of pure learning and knowledge to sick people, now I have a broader criterion towards any person, in addition, a different maturity towards life ..." were some words of Jorge Duran who participated in the project of Unidos Guadalajara in the block of August-November 2020.
Last year there were about 2500 student participations and the projects were managed virtually due to the pandemic.
Panamericana is proud of all those who are part of the Social Work projects and after eleven years since its birth, maintains its commitment to prepare better people and a better society.
