About Us
Our Mission:
Enabling sponsors and students to share their lives in ways that moves the student, from being a liability, to being an asset, to their society, while affording the sponsor to receive great, personal and emotional dividends on their investment.
Our Purpose:
The purpose of Ahead With Education (AWE) Association is to provide scholarships to students of highly economically challenged families in the area of Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, to enable them to secure an education that equips them to be productive members of their communities. Economically challenged families must choose between continuing a child’s education versus other priorities, such as health care, transportation, and food. Public education in Mexico includes student expenses not paid by the government. AWE scholarships provide promising students, the opportunity to continue their education, when they would not otherwise be able to do so.
Our Work:
Ahead With Education (AWE) Association is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes, consistent with Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) and in strict accordance with the generally accepted legal definition of “charitable” in that those purposes are, specifically, relief of the poor, the distressed or the underprivileged, as well as advancement of education.
Recipients of the scholarships must maintain outstanding grades in their school, based on official grade reports, to receive the scholarship funds that will enable them to proceed to their next semester or year of education.
Please click the “AWE History” link above to open our pages of history as remembered by Larry & Rose Acton.
One of our scholarship students, Betty Melchor Jimenez as a young child with her sponsor, Norma Casad. Betty is currently a Dentist.