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Schools are a key ally in reaching out to the community and identifying beneficiary groups. Education facilities, due to their stable presence in communities, can be the entry point to complete the selection process and help introduce project activities. In communities where the occurrence of child labor (CL) has been verified, the school could be the channel to enroll most of the children and adolescents as future participants in the project. Since a project like Paraguay Okakuaa Project (POK) needs to ensure that the most vulnerable children are included, and some of them are out of school precisely because of their involvement in CL or hazardous child labor (HCL), identification of these cases could be conducted through an outreach service (tutoring that searches across the community to identify families and institutions to include in the caseload). Although not all the participants will meet the eligibility criteria (some of them will not be necessarily at risk of CL), this mechanism can speed up the selection process (enabling the timely start of the activities) and still ensure that those in need are not left out.