Top 6 Memories from February 2024 Tours

Once again, we packed our bags and came together with CoEd supporters and Rotarians from all around the world to travel around Guatemala! Travelers got to see the programs in action and celebrate alongside the students, families, and educators who are harnessing...

The Rise Program: More than a Scholarship

If you sponsor a student in the Rise Youth Development Program or you’ve been supporting CoEd for a while, you know that a Rise scholarship provides so much more than an academic scholarship—because students are facing much more than economic barriers. On top of...

Textbook Schools: Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands

Nestled in a small village in northern Sololá, the Pixabaj Cooperative School serves around 90 students each year. But students at Pixabaj are outperforming the national average in reading and math scores…can you guess how? They’re a part of Cooperative for...

Sparking a Love for Literacy

Here at CoEd, we often get questions about how our programs operate in Guatemala. “Do you hire teachers or send volunteers to teach in Guatemala?”, “Do you start your own schools?”, “How on earth does a non-profit in Cincinnati, Ohio work with so many...

Students: The Future of Guatemala

A disheartening 90% of kids in rural Guatemala who are living in poverty never graduate from high school. This means that schools in rural Guatemala are essentially dropout factories continuing the cycle of illiteracy and limited opportunities. [1] According to USAID,...