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The rest of the schools are in other departments and municipalities. Their goal is to establish in each head of department a congregation with a Christian school and a local radio station. By 2007 they had eight schools in rural area which offered essentially primary education. There is not a great deal of information available regarding the schools in rural areas. The \u2018rural schools\u2019 which function in conjunction with the Manos de Amor foundation offer primary education and literacy programmes for adults.\u000AAnother particularity in the ESH educative proposal is the openness to seek new pedagogic alternatives. The Programme for Instrumental Enrichment (PEI) implements their educative process. The person responsible of FUEDES commented that this programme began after learning that a mother in their church had an autistic child. After contacting Professor Reuven Feuerstein in Israel, they decided to bring the programme to Guatemala. It was created in order to help elevate the level of intelligence in disadvantaged sectors with cultural deprivations. The PEI is described as the development of superior mental processes and a strategy to learn how to learn. The PEI was imparted to school staff and later to teachers of other schools in November 2001.\u000AThis programme was also offered to the Under Secretary for Education with the idea of improving the development of intelligence of children in public schools. The idea did not become a reality because of a lack of funds. As well as applying this programme in their schools in Guatemala City they also run it in rural areas (A9ESH). The senior pastor says that both secular and Christian education has been a key factor in the development of society historically, and he affirms that because of this education is the medium necessary to remove Guatemala from its state of underdevelopment and poverty.74\u000AThe Neo-Pentecostal educative proposal is linked with their objectives of\u000Amissionary expansion. At the same time, it is a contribution in favour of the development\u000Aof education in the country, especially in the light of a demand for new educative\u000Aalternatives. The Neo-Pentecostal schools and the nearly two hundred Evangelical schools\u000A74 Conference: El Poder de la Transformaci\u00F3n \u2018La historia de la Educaci\u00F3n cristiana, Cassette VC221202B-7, ESH Ministries, Guatemala.\u000A134\u000A