A COMMUNITY SCHOOL
A Community-Engaged and Donor-Supported School Created to Break the Cycle of Poverty Through Education. San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala on the Map
A LITTLE MONEY MAKES A BIG IMPACT
How to Change Young Lives IT DOES NOT TAKE MUCH TO MAKE AN IMPACT: Money in Guatemala buys so much more, a small donation will have a truly positive impact on the lives of Niños Creadores de Historia students. For the cost of lunch, you can cover the cost of the school’s electricity for an…
A SCHOOL WITH FEW BOOKS
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Helping Over 50 At-Risk First Graders Many of San Andrés Itzapa’s young children are simply not prepared to begin primary school, thus cannot perform at their respective grade level. If there is no intervention, most of these children will simply drop out of school, most by age twelve. Only 36% of Guatemalan children complete primary school.…
WE HAVE A BOX TO FILL
Many of the School’s Supplies are Shipped from the USA Many of the school’s supplies are not readily available locally, or simply more expensive than the cost to ship them from the USA. Items being shipped there are packed in large cardboard shipping containers; each container holds about eighteen cubic feet of school supplies. Donated…
POORLY EDUCATED IN GUATEMALA
Only 60% of Guatemalan Adults are Functionally Literate Despite six years of primary education being compulsory in Guatemala, less than 60% of Guatemalans over the age of 15 are functionally literate – one of the lowest literacy rates in the Americas. Only 36% of Guatemalan students complete primary school, only 12% complete high school, and a meager…