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...
Tours to Guatemala: A Lasting Impact
Keep hearing us gush about tours, but finding it hard to imagine what it's actually like to travel to Guatemala on a CoEd tour? One day you might find yourself in the beautiful, colonial city of Antigua… Or on a boat in the middle of Lake Atitlán. The...
Yoselyn: Driven to Make a Difference
Driven. Determined. Persistent. These are just a few of the amazing qualities that students in CoEd’s Rise Program possess. After all, you have to be pretty determined to even make it to middle school in rural Guatemala where more than 6 out of 10 kids don’t make it...
A Child Who Reads Is an Adult Who Thinks
Think back to first grade. Do you remember your teacher? Do you remember walking into your classroom and seeing labels all around the room to help you learn to read words like "door", "clock", "desk"? Unfortunately, first graders in rural Guatemala often have a...