COVID-19 Update
Dear CoEd Family, We hope you're all doing well during this unprecedented time of the Coronavirus pandemic. Many of you have been asking about us and what is happening in Guatemala. This curious time has us all feeling separated and disconnected as many of us take to...
February 2020 Tour Highlights
Just last month, we packed our bags and headed down to Guatemala to meet 52 eager travelers for two INCREDIBLE project tours. With weeks’ worth of hilarious and heartfelt stories, we couldn’t pick just one favorite memory from tour…so we decided to give you seven!...
What Sponsoring a Student Means to Me
Sponsoring a student is a one-to-one relationship between a Guatemalan student and the donor who makes it possible for the student to continue in school past sixth grade. But sponsoring a student in CoEd’s Rise Program is so much more than just providing an academic...
2019 Report Card
Report cards are in! As the next decade begins (I know, we can't believe it either!), it's time for us to reflect on how our programs performed in 2019 and share our findings with you, the people who make this all possible. Here at CoEd, we evaluate the success of our...
Rise Graduate Meets Michelle Obama
Education made this possible. Ancelma was born in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, where 95% of students never graduate from high school. Through Cooperative for Education’s programs, Ancelma beat these odds, earned her diploma, and broke the cycle of poverty in...
Best of Guatemala Travel Recommendations 2019
Thank you all for joining us here for our first ever Best of Guatemala Travel Recommendations! After spending time on a project tour with Cooperative for Education (CoEd), volunteers often ask to stay a little while longer in Guatemala. I mean who wouldn’t after...
Give by December 31 and your gift will be matched up to $25,000!
Take a moment to reminisce with me. What was your childhood like? Was it anything like mine? I grew up in your typical Midwest, middle-class home with my parents and four siblings—two brothers and two sisters. Our parents worked hard to provide for us, but we were...
Empowering Girls in Tech
Melinda Gates once said, “If you want to lift up humanity, empower women.” And that is exactly what the community of Hacienda Maria is doing.Hacienda Maria students proudly holding their new Microsoft certificatesThis year, 18 CoEd Computer Program students from...
Fall Fiesta 2019: One for the books!
Every year, Fall Fiesta gets bigger, better, and more colorful than ever before! And this year was no exception. Let’s take a look back at the top five highlights from Fall Fiesta 2019, including the record-breaking total that YOU helped raise for students in...
Edwin’s Path out of Poverty
Textbooks. Computers. Spark Reading. Rise Youth Development. All four of CoEd’s programs work with students in Guatemala to help them get the education they deserve in order to reach one of the biggest milestones in their lives, high school graduation! But it doesn’t...