The Thousand Girls Initiative Turns One
Happy 1-year anniversary! On April 1, 2016, we officially launched the Thousand Girls Initiative, a massive expansion of our Scholarship & Youth Development Program that will help 1,000 young Guatemalan women avoid an all too common fate: dropping out of school...
Small Business Spotlight
CoEd supporters are the greatest. You’re generous, kind, silly, adventurous, compassionate, and a little competitive, too. (We’re talking about you, Rick and Rich!) Each of you has a story of what motivates you to help students in Guatemala and it gives us great...
Education Center Dedication
“It was just like a wedding. You look out and you see all these people who you love and who have meant so much to you over the years.” —Joe Berninger It really was a special experience to dedicate the new education center with so many of you last month. Per the norm,...
Our favorite time of the year – February Project Tours
Like Christmas or summer vacation, we eagerly anticipate the February tour season each year. We spend a jam packed few weeks with supporters delivering books, inaugurating computer labs, reading with students, and meeting scholarship students. Bus rides into the...
Orlando Chile Bucú: Turning Skills into Success
“Tonight, please complete the even problems on page 268 and show up ready to compare your work with a partner’s tomorrow.” Many of us recognize these words as a typical end to a typical math class. But for students in rural Guatemala, there is nothing typical about...