Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico - In his commitment to education and ongoing effort to help local families keep their kids in school, Puerto Vallarta Mayor Ramon Guerrero Martinez has made an investment of nearly 15 million pesos to provide students in preschool, primary and secondary schools with uniforms and shoes.

The program has grown considerably since now, in addition to uniforms, for the first time in the history of the municipality, school shoes will be delivered to each of the applicants, which this year is around 30 thousand students in the first stage, stressed the Director of Social Development, Arturo Dávalos Peña.

He added that uniforms and shoes will be only be delivered to students whose parents enrolled in this program in a timely manner, as it was necessary to indicate the size of clothing and footwear for each child. However, the city's Social Development Department will be responsible for measuring students who will enter primary or secondary for the first time, so that the children who were not already registered in the school that they'll be attending can get their shoes and uniforms during the second delivery.

According to Arturo Dávalos Peña, around 56,000 school children will also receive insurance that covers accidents that may occur from home to school, while in the institution, and on the bus ride back home. This insurance covers up to $40,000 pesos for school-related accidents, and facilitates medical attention, as it allows principals to send injured students to the hospital, if/when necessary.

Similarly these 56,000 (+/-) students will receive backpacks full of school supplies, thanks to an agreement signed by Mayor Ramon Martinez Guerrero with the state government of Jalisco. The program, called "Advancing Students," supports the families of Puerto Vallarta by providing parents with all of the tools their children will need this coming school year. The packages are consistent to the supply list for each grade at kindergartens, primary and secondary schools throughout the municipality.

The municipal government is planning to make delivery of the school uniforms, shoes and supplies during the first week of the coming school year, i.e. between August 20 and 26, at the various public educational institutions throughout the municipality.