In the organization's 2015 financial statement, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences is recorded to have made a donation of about 324,000 euros.
In 2019 the organization also registered an agreement with the Ministry of Education of Haiti, for 323,951 euros. In the same year, it also received a donation from the Air Europa airline for about 735,000 euros,
Scholas also has an agreement of almost one million euros with Origen Worldwide, a marketing and communication company based in Madrid, Spain.
Other public and private organizations with which Scholas has entered into agreements or received donations include Paul David Hewson, the singer and vocalist of the rock band U2 known as Bono; the Santander Bank; the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires; PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the world's leading consulting firms; Disney Worldwide; the Mexican Agency for international cooperation for development; the Office of the First Lady of the Dominican Republic; the Inter-American Development Bank; Mercedes Benz Argentina; Microsoft and the San Pablo CEU University Foundation.
According to reports not included in the officially published financial statements, Scholas Occurrentes has used millions to pay unspecified fees, and hundreds of thousands to support its offices and the travel of its workers.
According to the document entitled "Fundación Scholas Ocurrentes - Scholas Consolidado (USD): Scholas Argentina. Statement of income and expenses from Jan 2016 to Dec 2016," the organization spent in that year, only in the Argentine headquarters, almost $5.2 million dollars in "professional fees " and another million in "temporary fees."
The document also indicates that more than $448,000 were used for "salaries and social charges."
In "office rentals", Scholas Occurrentes spent more than $324,000 that year. Another $300,000 went to mobile telephone expenses.
As total income, "gross profit", the pontifical foundation registered that year in its Argentine headquarters more than $12 million.
In its "Abbreviated Report as of December 31, 2017", which is not published on the group's website, Scholas Occurrentes indicates that it allocated 903 thousand euros to "travel expenses" in 2016 and more than 912 thousand euros in 2017.
According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 30.8% of the population of Latin America lives in poverty, below the threshold of $1.90 per day.
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According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 14 million children and adolescents between 7 and 18 years of age are out of the educational system in Latin America.
It is not clear how the projects offered by Scholas Occurents intend to address those populations.
Among the events that can be found in the 2019 Scholas yearbook are concerts, camps, a project "Programming for Peace" that does not explain how students from low-income schools could access technology, as well as an "Online Marathon on Bullying and Cyberbullying."
The organization's projects, including the University of Sense, offer online programs, but do not address how those in the world's poorest groups, which disproportionately lack internet access, should participate.
A UNICEF report from August this year revealed that " at least a third of school-age children around the world did not have access to distance education during the closure of schools due to COVID-19."
One of the main causes for the lack of access to distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico, one of the countries where Scholas Occurrentes has installed a headquarters, was " the lack of a computer or internet ", according to a study carried out by the Universidad Iberoamericana .