ELIC FOUNDATION, Free Schools of Scientific Research for Children

The ELIC Foundation, Free Schools of Scientific Research for Children, is an international non-profit Institution with its world headquarters located in Caracas, Venezuela. It was founded in 1977 by Dr. David Juan Ferriz Olivares and Acct. Maria Nilda Cerf Arbulu in Caracas, Venezuela and since 1991 has been recognized as a private Foundation in various American and European countries. The ELIC Foundation fosters within children critical analysis within research. This is under the high ideals proposed by Dr. Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière, “What is important is not solely teaching something to a child; it is shaping their spirit for observation and reflection, critical analysis within research and the love for truth,” with the objective of awakening within them an understanding through KNOWING, in order to apply this to their small RESEARCH, resulting in children having a more profound, creative, social, scientific, epistemological and andragogic attitudes. The general framework of the ELIC Foundation is set up for the child to develop their potentials, providing them with all of the necessary tools to grow in harmony with themselves and society.