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...
Ready to meet the brains behind Bookmarks?! Ever since Ann Dempsey became CoEd’s Development Manager in 2008, she has been an integral part of the team. She does EVERYTHING, from marketing and fundraising initiatives to projects that utilize her techie background—we...
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...
TYPING IN ALL CAPS CAN ONLY MEAN ONE OF TWO THINGS: 1) OUR EYES ARE CURRENTLY BURSTING OUT OF OUR SKULLS BECAUSE WE ARE SO UPSET, OR 2) WE ARE BESIDE OURSELVES WITH EXCITEMENT. Turns out it is number two. Now listen to why we are on the verge of losing it… We...
You really can find anything on the internet. That’s what Ben Chapman learned when he stumbled upon CoEd’s website while looking online for volunteer opportunities. Ben, a retired P&G Product Developer, read about CoEd’s mission and was impressed with the...
CoEd has done it. We’ve finally arrived. We’ve made it to the Big Dance, if you will. Ok, that might be a slight exaggeration, but we do have some exciting news to share. We recently hired a General Director for Guatemala operations, Mr. Rony Mejía. This is an...
