For the last decade, we’ve been busy delivering a comprehensive literacy program to some of the most at-risk, impoverished communities in Guatemala. Our aim is to improve the dismal education rate in a nation struggling with one of the highest rates of illiteracy in Latin America. On average, Guatemalans over the age of 15 have only 5.6 years of schooling, and that rate falls quickly in the Mayan communities where the average indigenous woman only has 3.4 years of schooling. Our goal is to change these numbers by supplying teacher training, books and deep community commitment to learning. And we’re making a difference!
In the last ten years, Child Aid has:
- Benefitted more than 95,000 at-risk children.
- Trained 2,410 Guatemalan teachers.
- Distributed more than 800,000 high-quality, Spanish-language books.
- Worked in more than 250 elementary schools, most of them in the indigenous Maya communities hit hardest by the 33-year civil war.
- Distributed more than 3.4 million meals to hungry children and their families.
Watch our video Child Aid By The Numbers to learn more.