Ancelma Ortiz used to be like any ordinary girl in a poor, rural Guatemalan family. The oldest of five children, she labored in the fields alongside her father and sold the produce in the early morning market with her mother to help provide the basic necessities for...
Fredy Tzib didn’t think he was going to be able to stay in school past the sixth grade. But somehow he graduated from high school, found a great job, and is enrolled in college. How is this possible? CoEd’s Scholarship & Youth Development program, of...
It’s 4 a.m. in Guatemala’s Central Highlands. As the roosters groggily begin their morning ritual, 20-year-old Lesly Patzán is already on her way to school in Guatemala City. Sheer determination fuels her during these early morning hours. Instead of giving...
Newsflash: YOU have the chance to meet your sponsored scholarship student in person on a CoEd tour to Guatemala. Exciting, right?! It is a beautiful thing to see a scholarship student race across the park to greet their sponsor, excited to catch up and discuss their...
Today’s post is all about girl power (the Spice Girls would be so proud). Educating girls in developing countries has gotten a lot of buzz lately with the release of the Girl Rising documentary and we were lucky enough to be at the Cincinnati showing a few weeks...
Cooperative for Education is on a mission. Ok, obviously our main mission is to break the cycle of poverty in Guatemala through education. But our mission within that mission is to start providing scholarships to a whole lot more Guatemalan students– we are...
