In 2008, seven educational institutions intheurbanarea of Soacha, Cundinamarca, were running this programme and a total of 6, 900 people took part inthe programme including children, young people and adults.
But inthe United States, and much of the rest of the high-income world, this is accomplished by bringing residents from the periphery to the core by car, train, bus and increasingly through telecommunications, even as most jobs are located elsewhere intheurbanarea.