Background
Pájaro Flor Community Language Center is an initiative of Suchitotenses for the Education and Development of Suchitoto
The Pajaro Flor Spanish School is an initiative of the people of Suchitoto which began offering
Spanish courses in November 2006. We will have 12 years of operating and one of our main
objectives, apart from offering excellent quality Spanish classes, is to provide opportunities of
employment to the local youth. Our teachers are young from Suchitoto who are well trained and
have a lot of experience teaching English.
Come and join our efforts, in which you’ll learn “a language is a culture” While taking courses
with us, you will be contributing to the social economic and cultural development of Suchitoto.
The idea of creating the Spanish School was born when a group of suchitotenses were
part of a local liaison committee with Suchitotenses Associates residents in Los
Angeles, who sent funds for humanitarian aid in Suchitoto; this included a scholarship
program for university studies that was born in 1999.
The scholarship program was growing in number of beneficiaries so in 2004 it was
considered to identify a productive project to be executed in Suchitoto whose income
would be assigned a percentage for the Suchitoto scholarship program, a debate started
on what project would work in Suchitoto, most of them thought of a hotel but a
foreigner who collaborated with the scholarship program expressed the idea that
Suchitoto offered the conditions for a Spanish school and that was how it was run with
this idea in which a former volunteer of the peace corps that worked years ago in El
Salvador was key in the formulation of the project and in starting with the idea of the
Spanish school.
Tiffany y Peter Hall, England.
"My husband and I spent a week at the Pajaro Flor Spanish School and highly recommend it. Nelson, the manager was very flexible about when we had lessons and he was prepared to open the school on a Sunday as we wanted to start lessons on our first day. Our two teachers Beatriz and Christian were excellent and gave us a good combination of conversation practice and grammar."