• In alliance with Fundación Chile, the program will work with 17 schools throughout the country, focusing on Accounting, Programming, Telecommunications, and Connectivity and Networks.
• More than 600 students will benefit from this initiative, which will also promote access to professional internships, teacher training and competitive funds.

This Thursday, the kick-off ceremony of Commitment TV, an initiative promoted by Banco de Chile within the framework of its Education for Chile Program, was held in twelve regions of the country. In alliance with Fundación Chile, it seeks to strengthen technical-vocational education, improve the training received by students and modernize the educational techniques of both teachers and directors of these institutions. The main objective of this work is to open up new opportunities for development and access to employment for students graduating from the country’s technical-vocational high schools.

A total of 17 institutions will participate in this initiative, which targets the job profiles with the greatest opportunities in the market. To this end, training plans were developed to improve the skills and knowledge of the students, thus increasing their employment opportunities, focusing on Accounting, Programming, Telecommunications, and Connectivity and Networking.

Along with youth training, Commitment TV will include a series of activities designed to prepare students for the job market, such as talks given by Banco de Chile volunteers on the world of work, financial education and cybersecurity. Access to professional internships, teacher training and competitive funds to promote and strengthen the specialties taught by educational institutions will also be promoted.

María Victoria Martabit, Corporate Affairs and Sustainable Development Manager of Banco de Chile said that “the development of the country and of the people is one of our fundamental pillars. In this sense, we believe that it is a priority to strengthen and promote technical vocational education. We are confident that this initiative will enable these institutions to make a leap in educational quality and provide their students with better tools for their subsequent insertion into the labor market”.

“The alliance between Banco de Chile and Fundación Chile represents a valuable opportunity to enhance the training and expand job opportunities for students of technical-vocational schools throughout the country. This important strategic agreement capitalizes on the knowledge and experience of both entities, creating an ideal environment to develop and implement comprehensive programs for the benefit of students. Commitment TV aspires to be an engine of change, actively engaged in forging stronger and more successful educational and employment trajectories,” added Manuel Farías, director of Technical Vocational Education and Formative-Labor Trajectories at Fundación Chile.

During 2023, the Commitment TV initiative enabled the training of nearly 500 students from 16 technical-vocational high schools throughout the country. The students who successfully completed the training plans, validated by Sence and provided by OTEC INACAP and Santo Tomás, received certificates attesting to their preparation for the labor market.

Mardy Carrillo, who was a student at the Liceo Comercial Vate Vicente Huidobro in San Ramón, carried out his internship at Banco de Chile in the area of Programming and says that “hopefully many more young people can access to have these courses and be able to do their internship in important companies such as Banco de Chile, since having this base is a tremendous support to move forward and be more prepared for the working world in the near future”.

María Téllez, who studied at the Liceo Comercial de San Bernardo, said: “It was exciting to know that our school was going to be part of this important initiative, we were all happy and joyful to be given this opportunity. Personally, it helped me a lot to define what I wanted to study. I did my internship in one of Banco de Chile’s branches in my community and I learned a lot from the executives who were by my side”.

The signing of the letter of co-responsibility of the five schools in the Metropolitan Region that will participate in this initiative took place at the Puente Maipo School in Puente Alto. This activity was attended by María Victoria Martabit, Manager of Corporate Affairs and Sustainable Development of Banco de Chile; Marcela Colombres, Director of Learning for the Future of Fundación Chile; principals, students and educational staff.

Miguel Arce, principal of Colegio Puente Maipo thanked Banco de Chile for “developing this project of active linkage with technical-vocational schools, contributing its knowledge in the financial, administrative and operational areas. It is a real privilege to have strategic partners such as yourselves, leaders in a market as complex as the financial one”.

This agreement was also formalized, in parallel, in 11 other regions of the country: Arica and Parinacota, Atacama, Coquimbo, Valparaíso, O’Higgins, Maule, Ñuble, La Araucanía, Los Ríos, Aysén and Magallanes.

The schools that will participate this year in Banco de Chile’s Commitment TV initiative are the following: