FUNDAEC, the acronym in Spanish for “The Foundation for the Application and Teaching of the Sciences”, is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that focuses on training and development in the rural areas of Colombia and other countries in Latin America.
[3] According to Gustavo Correa, director of FUNDAEC in 2002, it was originally inspired by a quotation from Baháʼu'lláh - "Baha'u'llah talks about man as 'a mine rich in gems of inestimable value.'
[7] SAT has been credited, after wide implementation,[8][9] with cutting the process of urbanization, increases in democratic behavior and aspects of gender equality, extra curricular activities in communities, stopping migratory movement of populations, and established public-private cooperation.
FUNDAEC has won the Change the World -- Best Practice Award for its SAT program from the Club of Budapest[10] and characterized as “the best educatory project of the time”, according to Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker.
[3] By 2002 the SAT system was in use in Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia and the first phases of the implementation of the program had started in Zambia.