Child Aid works with indigenous people in some of Latin America’s poorest communities to create opportunity and alleviate poverty. Our Reading for Life literacy program serves over 8,500 children in 42 villages. We deliver thousands of books to rural Guatemalan schools and libraries and offer scholarships to children who need them most. We provide extensive training for teachers and librarians and bring reading into the lives of thousands of poor children. We empower local people by helping them become catalysts for literacy in their communities.
Our literacy program is effective because it is multifaceted. It is sustainable because we invest in local people. It is empowering because it gives children the greatest resource they can possess to lift themselves from poverty: literacy.
