Positive Impact: Social Commitment - Parafina Eyewear

Positive Impact: Social Commitment

At Parafina, we are triple impact and we have been so since our birth in 2014. We want to generate a positive impact and one of the key pillars on which this impact is materialised is our social commitment.

Our commitment to changing the world goes beyond our products. We promote education as a transformative axis of society and the future of our planet through the dissemination and awareness of our PARAFINA community and through the support of quality education with our own PARAFINA Social Project.

Through PARAFINA Social Project, we donate 5% of our sales to school scholarships so that children with few resources in the small suburb of Fátima, in Asunción, Paraguay, can have a better future. A project with which our founders had a long-standing personal bond and in which our PARAFINA team has a constant presence, watching over the good development of the students.

PARAFINA Social Project is developed in the Jose Mª Bogarin LaSalle School in the neighbourhood of Fátima in Asunción, Paraguay. It is a school opened 50 years ago to give a better future to the children of an area of Bañado Sur de Asunción. In 2022 there are 605 students enrolled from kindergarten to ninth grade (15-16 years old). The school’s neighbourhood is a poor area with mostly unfounded and untitled houses. The families in the neighbourhood, many of whom have migrated from the interior of the country, face not only economic needs, but also a lack of educational and sanitary resources.

In 2014, we started PARAFINA Social Project with school scholarships for children with fewer economic resources in the neighbourhood. Since the beginning we have funded 485 school scholarships, supporting the dreams of tomorrow’s change makers. These annual scholarships cover the full monthly school fees, school supplies and educational fees. In addition, they enable the children to access the school’s free canteen services and health checks. But the most important thing about these scholarships is that they provide them with a safe space to play, develop and a better future.

Since 2019 we have also funded a School Support Project. This project was developed in response to the needs of a large group of pupils to have extra support for academic difficulties, psychological or behavioural problems, as well as providing specialised support to the school’s teaching staff. The team developing the project is made up of a psychologist, a psychopedagogist and a teacher. Between the 3 of them, they are currently providing individual therapy to 205 children and school support to 70 pupils.