They have no fear of speaking out. It's not just an education program by itself and isolated from everything else. It is part of a whole development process. Graduates of the SAT program do indeed emerge with comprehensive knowledge in agriculture, animal husbandry, soil chemistry, and other fields traditionally associated with rural vocations. But they also come out with knowledge about how to create microenterprises and participate in community development.
Community development is in part stimulated by the organic manner in which the program expands.
Thus, with some additional training, it is possible for graduates to establish their own SAT tutorial programs, preferably in their own communities. In this way, the program itself creates the possibility for employment as SAT graduates go on to establish their own private education enterprises. The program thus provides a shortcut in the creation of more secondary-level teachers, and it produces teachers who are by inclination willing to remain in the rural areas. The program's positive impact on the development process is one reason that the state of Antioquia wants SAT to be established in all of its rural municipalities, said Clara Monica Zapata Jaramillo, former director of the Division of Formal Education in Antioquia and now in the state education department's Office of Special Projects. It gives them enough technical knowledge for that.