 Empresas Bern, as an active member of the Global Pact of the UN created the non-profit Fundación Bern (Bern Foundation), an entity primarily directing its efforts towards the integral education of young people in areas of great need.
Today, Fundación Bern built and operates two schools with over 900 students from kinder to 9th grade. The schools includes 50 classrooms, Auditorium, labs, music rooms, etc. it is expected that these two schools will grow over the next three years to its maximum capacity of 1200 students.
The professional teachers who work at the Institutes cover many areas such as English, Computer Science, Mathematics, Christian formation and Folklore among others. Likewise, the administrative personnel of the schools are people committed, not only to the integral education of the students, but to the service to the community.
As part of complete education plan, in which the academic, spiritual and cultural formation of the individual are integral, these schools continuously makes activities that promote the artistic expressions of the students in order to cultivate the talents the students have. The Institutes make much emphasis in artistic expressions and activities for academic reinforcing, celebrating allusive activities to certain subjects that vary weekly. In several occasions, students of these establishments have represented our country abroad, performing to the best standards.
The “Bern Institutes” are located in Las Americas, Panama city, and in Valle Dorado in La Chorrera.
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- Instituto Bern - Las Americas
Located at las Mañanitas in Tocumen, in the outskirts of Panama City, is a low income working class area with a population of more than 100,000.
- It has been opened since 1999, and it started with 140 students.
- It currently has 700 students ranging from 1st grade to 9th grade, including pre-school, too.
- It also has computer labs, a cafeteria, and an auditorium with a capacity for 600 people.
- It also has a chapel to complement with the Christian development of the students.
- It has a Folklore group, sport teams, a Congos group and a children’s choir.
- Bern Institute Valle Dorado in Chorrera
Located in the sleeper-town of Chorrera, some 30 miles west of Panama City, with a very large population of more than 80,000 residents.
- It started operating in the year 2002, but it was officially inaugurated on May 2003.
- It has 14 classrooms, a library, a computer lab, the administration office and a first aid room.
- It started with 50 students from pre-school to 1st grade.
- Currently in 2006 it already has 200 students.
Our employees educate their children in the schoolsof the BernFoundation
 "Mythree children study in the Instituto Bern Las Américas and I feel very satisfied because in addition to the good academic preparation, in that education facility they also give moral and Christian formation. They use dynamic educative methods and that motivates the children since they learn in amusing ways. The technology and knowledge English are very advanced and that makes me feel very pleased, because I know that they are being well prepared for a very competitive world. In addition the personnel of the school is like a great family, where everything exists in harmony, respect and much discipline. For all those reasons this school has a great acceptance by the people of the area. The Fundación Bern has made a great job with the creation of this school." Enilda Rodriguez Martes.
"The Instituto Bern Las Américas unites all the conditions for the good education of our children because it incorporates the academic, spiritual and cultural formation, educating men and women of good, prepared to face the challenges to come. The Fund ación Bern thrives to maintain excellent administrative personnel and as the student body has grown, they have extended the facilities and they have acquired modern equipment. Also much creativity exists on the part of the educational and administrative personnel to motivate the students and to discover abilities and talents of the students. Between the many satisfactions that we have, it is the fact that my two children study near our house, in a safe and pleasant atmosphere." Aracelly de Bultrón.
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