26 students, through the Regional Equity Program; will study for free in the institution and will maintenance aid.

Guanajuato, Gto., August 4, 2016. The University of Guanajuato (UG) presented the Program of Regional Equity, which offers the opportunity to course a degree to the youth in cities with educational lag. This is with the objective to contribute to the construction of a more equitable society, the institution will condone the enrollment fee and will grant economic aid to scarce resources youth until they complete their studies.

In a first stage, UG will receive 26 young, coming from ten cities such as Atarjea, Jerécuaro, Ocampo, Pablo Nuevo, San Diego de la Unión, Santa Catarina, San José Iturbide, Tarandacuao, Victoria, and Xichú, who will begin their college studies starting from the school cycle to begin next month.

The Program of Regional Equity (PER) is possible thanks to the sum of efforts between the University of Guanajuato and the Department of Education of Guanajuato (SEG), institutions that subscribed a collaboration agreement to open spaces for youth to complete their baccalaureate, have an outstanding academic trajectory and lack resources to continue their studies.

In the acceptance letters' ceremony for the 26 benefited students with this program, the General Rector of the University of Guanajuato (UG), Dr. Luis Felipe Guerrero Agripino highlighted that the project is the first of the diverse actions that the institutions will start to open spaces to whom is an adverse economic situation.

He remembered the first rector of UG, Armando Olivares, who said that the institution was founded "for the love of the disinherited," and since then has ruled by the imperative ethic of giving answer to the society's demands and pointed that projects such as the Regional Equity Program influence in the construction of a more just and inclusive society.

The first PER generation is composed by 19 women and 7 men, from which three come from Atarjea, three from Jerécuaro, two from Ocampo, one from Pueblo Nuevo, two from San Diego de la Unión, three from Santa Catarina, one from San José Iturbide, four from Tarandacuao and six from Victoria.

The beneficiaries will receive a monthly amount of $6,300 MXN pesos and will not pay a tuition, in return, they are asked to fulfill the academic obligations, make a social service that impacts in their cities of origin and participate in the divulgation of the costumes and cultural values of their localities.

The Regional Equity Program covers the 13 divisions of UG; this time, Campus Guanajuato will receive nine beneficiaries, León will receive two, Campus Irapuato-Salamanca will receive eight, and Campus Celaya-Salvatierra will receive seven.

When explaining in what the Regional Equity Program consists on, UG's Academic Secretary, Dr. José Luis Lucio Martínez, said that by easing the access to this young men and women to the House of Studies contributes in forming a social inclusion culture.

"For us college scholars, represents a privileged opportunity to form youth with a high social commitment, with their place of origin and the society; with their identity and costumes, capable of positively impacting in their communities and procure the community and regional development" so he held.

At the event was present, as representative from the State Governor, Lic. Miguel Márquez Márquez, SEG's head, Eng. Eusebio Vega Pérez, who affirmed that UG's Regional Equity Program represents a breakthrough in the subject of equity, and constitutes and opportunity that will change the life not only from the benefited youth, but their family's life.

Representing the beneficiaries, spoke Laura Itzel Ajoleza Girón, graduate from the CECYTE of Tarandacuao, who expressed her gratitude for this opportunity which will allow her to reach her goals. It was the turn of the UG student Sandra Mireya Guzmán Barrón, to welcome the new classmates, now members of the "Legendary beehive."

At the presentation ceremony of the program was also present, UG's Pro Vost, Dr. Héctor Efraín Rodríguez de la Rosa, the Secretary of Management and Development, M.A. Jorge Alberto Romero Hidalgo; and unipersonal authorities of the higher level and high school college (CNMS) from UG, representative of the collegiate organs of the institution, state and municipal presidents and functionaries.