Meet Fabiola Chioc, a teacher in training at a school for indigenous women in San Andres, Guatemala. Child Aid works in partnership with Fabiola’s school to help the students learn how to teach and promote reading. Most teachers in rural Guatemala never learn the basics of how to teach children to read, which is one of the reasons the country has the lowest literacy rate in all of Latin America.
“Child Aid has helped us so much,” Fabiola told us. “Norma [the Child Aid literacy trainer who works in her school] has really helped me understand how to explain books and reading. Other teachers don’t teach this.”
Fabiola is also the first in her family to make it to high school. Congratulations, Fabiola! And thanks to all of you who support our work and enable us to provide training to her and her fellow student teachers.