The Life of a Guatemalan Mother

“What do you eat with your tortillas?” someone asked Maria Berta.  “Sometimes there’s salt,” she replied. Maria Berta had welcomed Cooperative for Education volunteers into her home in Cerritos Asunción, Guatemala after we inaugurated the Culture of Reading Program at...

Celebrating an Empowered Future in Guatemala

Layers of dust coat the cracked concrete floor of Chiquival Cooperative School’s dilapidated gymnasium. A makeshift stage at the front of the room is strewn with streamers and balloons. Students, teachers, and visitors dance together under the modest aluminum roof,...